The New Jersey Farmer Archives
New Jersey’s Santinis, Truszkowskis represent with strong national showings
Corn growers from the Mid-Atlantic Region were well-represented in the 2021 National Corn Growers Association’s corn yield contest results, released on Dec. 15. In the contest’s six categories the region was eligible for, eight out of the top 18...
Morris Winter Market starts new season at new central location
CONVENT STATION — The Morris County Winter Farmers Market has moved around the central county several times, but Grow It Green Morristown may have found the ideal location.Market Manager Andeana Gonzalez said, the parking lot of the railroad station...
NOFA-NJ opts for virtual for second straight year
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. — The Northeast Organic Farming Association-New Jersey is holding its second virtual conference on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 29 and 30.The schedule is on the NOFA-NJ website, nofanj.org.A highlight of the first day is an overview of...
Johnston’s I&G Farms forges on in white corn
JACKSON — In Irene Johnston and her team at I&G Farms have been busy.“I’m winding up my Christmas holiday season because we grow a lot of poinsettias,” Johnston says.Irene and her husband, Greg, bought an old chicken farm and started I&G Farms...
Cotton offers views on prospect of a new livestock processing facility
WEST WINDSOR — Speaking at the New Jersey Farm Bureau annual convention, agribusiness entrepreneur Richard Cotton offered his take on the prospect of creating a livestock processing facility in northwest New Jersey. Cotton operated Cotton Cattle Co....
Clean partnerships are crucial (Editorial)
The University of Maryland found itself in relatively hot water in 2016 when an expert panel on academic research lambasted a university study which claimed that a new brand of fortified chocolate milk not only helped athletes but improved cognitive and...
Pa. Society for Ag invites reps from three other states (Off The Secretary’s Desk)
(Editor’s note: Douglas Fisher is the New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture.) Along with the Secretaries of Agriculture in three of our surrounding states, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, I have been invited to speak at the Pennsylvania Society for...
Rutgers’ horse management seminar stays virtual (Animal Science Update)
This year have decided to keep the Horse Management Seminar as a virtual format. We will keep the format the same as it was last year so if you attended you will be pleased that we are keeping the discussion format the same with plenty of time to ask...
City Green establishes non-profit for green urban communities mission
CLIFTON — Young or new farmers in Northern New Jersey will have a group to turn to for shared knowledge and resources courtesy of the farm team at City Green. City Green established a non-profit farm here as part of its mission to create green urban...
Lyon: Every ‘go-to person’ counts
WEST WINDSOR — Busy as they are and exhausted as they may be at the height of their respective seasons here in the Garden State, Cody Lyon from American Farm Bureau urged the state’s farmers to make time for themselves as citizens. More specifically,...
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