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By Mark Wocial, Certified Global Business Professional, Wocial & Associates LLC   In 2016, global trade in fresh onions and shallots involved approximately 7.9 million metric tons (MT) and was…

By Deborah Ruoho   Beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico, served as an extraordinary setting for the National Onion Association (NOA) 2017 Annual Convention. Santa Fe is rich in history, diverse…

Help for Employers, Worker, Handlers and more. The 2015 revised Agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is complex, so this guide breaks it up into bite-sized chunks and sorts information by…

WSU Extension is offering free soil health testing to a limited number of growers in Eastern Washington. Growers can see how their soils measure up when compared to similar soils…

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Bill and Legislative Principles for 2018 during a town hall at Reinford Farms in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania….

Whole-Farm Revenue Protection Insures All Farm Revenue Under Single Policy Farmers with highly diverse farms, who grow specialty commodities and sell to direct or specialty markets now have access to…

The Utah Onion Association Annual Winter Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 13, 2018. These are always interesting and informative meetings and most of the Utah growers are expected…

By Denise Keller, Editor   Farmers and others in agriculture have generally proven to be a resilient bunch. During the past year, resilience has been essential for onion growers, packers…

The new Miedema MB 111 box filler promises both efficiency and gentle product handling. The machine boasts a filling capacity of approximately 100 tons per hour. The MB 111 achieves…