Articles Tagged with ''specialty crops''

Syngenta Group announced the acquisition of Valagro, a leading biologics company - giving the firm a key leadership position in a market which is set to nearly double in size over the next five years.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is now accepting proposals for the 2021 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.

Perdue disappointed with specialty crops * Newsom hosts Climate Action * Democrats relent on CCC funding * EPA: Chlorpyrifos no risk to kids

Protect Georgia’s pecan and blueberry farmers. That will be one of the requests made by Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black Thursday when he testifies at a U.S. Trade Representative hearing on reining in the expansion of Mexican specialty crop exports.

Southern farmers and lawmakers are taking another shot at getting competition protection from the Mexican fruit and vegetables that have been increasingly pouring across the border.

Specialty crop farms spent more than three times more money on labor costs than other types of operations, according to data from USDA’s 2018 Agricultural Resources Management Survey.