Onion demand in New York is fairly good, and that is the bright spot this week. Unfortunately, their shipping prices are the same as last week. All other areas have…

At the start of USDA’s 2020 Agriculture Outlook Forum on February 20, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the Agriculture Innovation Agenda, a department-wide initiative to align resources, programs, and research…

During the week ending February 17, U.S. on-highway diesel fuel prices averaged $2.89 per gallon, 2 cents lower than the previous week and 11.6 cents below last year. Average diesel…

What Recent Soil Biology and Soil Organic Matter Discoveries Mean for Soil Management By Andrew McGuire, Washington State University Extension Agronomist “This changes everything.” That is how everything is presented…

South Georgia Equipment (SGE) has opened a 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Lincolnton, Georgia. SGE managers say this puts the company in a position to handle any project of any size…

Paarlberg Farms in Grant Park, Illinois, is selling some used onion equipment to focus more on growing grain. The farm has harvesters, conveyors, an onion mill set and much more,…

BioSafe Systems has announced that OxiDate 5.0, a bactericide/fungicide, has been approved in California. With this approval, BioSafe Systems can now manufacture, deliver and sell the product in California. OxiDate 5.0…

By Gina Greenway, Agricultural Economist and Assistant Professor, College of Idaho With another year’s onion harvest in the books, a familiar problem remains a timely concern. Thrips and thrips-transmitted Iris…