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Story by Mike Pace, Utah State University Extension Agent Photos by Dave Alexander, Publisher   From the Food Safety Modernization Act to drip irrigation, and from controlling spray drift in…

The WSU Extension office reports that downy mildew has been reported in a couple of onion seed fields in the Columbia Basin between Moses Lake and Eltopia.  Weather is a…

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted an additional 90-day waiver from the electronic logging device (ELD) rule for agriculture-related transportation. During this time, the…

By Kristie Buckland, Vegetable and Specialty Seed Crop Extension Specialist, Oregon State University   With the constant threat of thrips in onion production and the increasing challenge of managing the…

Fox Packaging opened a new printing facility in McAllen, Texas, in March. With the new 32,000-square-foot facility’s increased space and state-of-the-art printing and conversion equipment, the company expects to increase…

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue visited Brighton, Colorado onion grower Sakata Farms on May 15. The visit was part of Perdue’s fourth “Back to Our Roots” tour. The visit featured a labor…

Two farmers from North Dakota utilized their engineering backgrounds to develop a product to eliminate mud-plugged planter and air seeder wheels in wet conditions and to prevent tire wear in…

By Michael Larose, Agrichemical Segment Manager, BioSafe Systems   Ask an onion grower what he fears most, and he will probably tell you a bacterial rot outbreak in his fields….

Apply Bactericide/Fungicide Now A strong thunderstorm with high winds and hail crossed through parts of the Treasure Valley in southwest Idaho Sunday evening. According to the National Weather Service, it went from Nyssa…