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Many diseases can affect an onion crop. Correctly identifying the problem is crucial to choosing the proper solution. What is wrong with these onions? Photo 1 Photo 2 This material…

In preparation for National Ag Day 2023 on March 21, the Agriculture Council of America (ACA) is hosting an essay contest. The theme for this year is Growing a Climate for…

Purdue University is offering a new fully online Professional Master of Science in International Agribusiness aimed at agribusiness professionals worldwide. Applications are being taken now, and the program launches in January 2023. The…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that producers of south Texas onions voted to continue their marketing order program. In a referendum held between Sep. 1 and Oct. 3,…

Story and photos by Denise Keller, Editor Extreme weather is creating more challenges in the field. Waning product efficacy is making disease management more difficult. With all this and other…

By  Andrew McGuire Soil health management can be distilled to two principles: Maximize photosynthesisMinimize tillage These are principles; they do not tell you what practices you should use, but rather…

By Pin-Chu Lai and Brian Nault, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Cornell AgriTech Do your onions suffer from onion thrips infestations and bacterial bulb rot? If you grow dry bulb…

By Michael Kooy, Emily McFaul, Kevin Vander Kooi and Mary Ruth McDonald, University of Guelph With dwindling efficacy of tools to manage Stemphylium leaf blight in onion, the search is…

What do recent discoveries regarding soil biology and soil organic matter mean for soil management? Something between “this changes everything” and “nothing new.” Science is slow. It will take some…