Mid-Atlantic Grower
Habiak gives trees kid-glove treatment
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Patience is a needed personality trait for farmers who specialize in Christmas trees and pumpkins. Middlesex County farmer Alan Habiak, 63, grew up on a potato, wheat and hay farm. Later, his family switched to soybeans and...
Habiak gives trees kid-glove treatment
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Patience is a needed personality trait for farmers who specialize in Christmas trees and pumpkins. Middlesex County farmer Alan Habiak, 63, grew up on a potato, wheat and hay farm. Later, his family switched to soybeans and...
Mid-Atlantic Fruit, Vegetable Convention Jan. 28-30
HERSHEY, Pa. — The 2020 Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention will be held Jan. 28-30 at the Hershey Lodge. More than 2,400 fruit, vegetable, and berry growers and other industry persons from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond are...
Pritchard working to build credibility in regional hemp industry
CAMBRIDGE, Md. — As Delmarva’s industrial hemp industry heats up, Barry Pritchard said he hopes to offer one thing to farmers from his expanding Eastern Shore hemp lab — legitimacy.The veteran scientist, who operates out of Dorchester County’s small...
Straw: ‘We learned it takes a lot of money’
CHRISTIANBURG, Va. — The excitement over growing industrial hemp and the reality of doing it are coming together in Virginia this first year of farmers being able to grow it legally.John Straw, head grower for TruHarvest Farms here, shared some of...
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