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Date:2014/05/07
Most growers worry a lot about the safety of the food they grow and where their responsibility lies. This article aims to point out where the worry may not match up with the grower’s responsibility for food safety.
Posted on May 5, 2014 by Phil ...
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Date:2014/05/07
As a fresh produce grower, are you sharing the right information as part of your worker training to be FSMA compliant? Find out if you have all your food safety bases covered.
Posted on May 5, 2014 by Phil Tocco, Michigan State University Extens...
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Date:2014/05/07
Herbicides with different modes of action are registered for asparagus.
Posted on May 5, 2014 by Bernard Zandstra, Michigan State University Extension, Department of Horticulture
Asparagus harvest season will be upon us shortly, and grower...
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Date:2014/05/07
BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang urged more targeted efforts in poverty alleviation during his inspection tour to southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region from Sunday to Tuesday.
Focusing on pove...
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Date:2014/05/07
BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- China must work harder to ensure safe drinking water in rural areas, where about 110 million people still lack clean drinking water, the Ministry of Water Resources said Tuesday.
Resolving drinking water safet...
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Date:2014/05/07
PARMA, Italy, May 6 (Xinhua) -- China will play an increasingly important role in the global food challenge, an Italian official told Xinhua Tuesday during the ongoing international fair on food made in Italy named Cibus.
"China is a country t...
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Date:2014/05/07
SHANGHAI, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai has unified its pension plans for rural and unemployed urban residents, authorities said on Monday.
The unified system combines Shanghai's 5-level rural pension plan with the 10-scale scheme for unemployed ...
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Date:2014/05/07
BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese rural residents in poor regions saw their per capita net income surge 13.4 percent year on year to 5,519 yuan (about 897 U.S. dollars) in 2013, official data showed on Monday.
The rate of increase was 4.1 per...
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Date:2014/05/07
Farmers work at a field in Shangzhi village of Yuezhuang town in Zibo city, East China's Shandong province, May 4, 2014. Monday is the beginning of summer, the 7th solar term in Chinese lunar calendar, which indicates the coming of summer. Farmers he...
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Date:2014/05/08
More rapid fruit growth is expected later in the week when warmer temperatures finally arrive.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by Bob Tritten, Michigan State University Extension
Weather
Continued cooler than normal temperatures over the last week ...
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Date:2014/05/08
Growers are invited to attend upcoming meetings on blueberry IPM activities, and new educational opportunities for spotted wing Drosophila management.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by Carlos García-Salazar, Michigan State University Extension
The ...
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Date:2014/05/08
Warm weather will move tree fruit growth quickly this week.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by Phil Schwallier, and Amy Irish-Brown, Michigan State University Extension
Daily temperatures have remained much below normal high and low readings, and tr...
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Date:2014/05/08
Cool and wet weather is slowing spring throughout the Northwest region. Blooming fruit is not predicted in the next week.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by Nikki Rothwell, Emily Pochubay and Duke Elsner, Michigan State University Extension
Weather...
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Date:2014/05/08
Sweet cherry bloom has begun. Warm weather should bring a growth spurt this week.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by Bill Shane, and Mark Longstroth, Michigan State University Extension
Montmorency cherry flower buds are opening across Southwest Mich...
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Date:2014/05/08
For profitable yields, investing in pollination of highbush blueberries is crucial.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by Rufus Isaacs, Jason Gibbs, and Emily May, Michigan State University, Department of Entomology; Eric Hanson and Jim Hancock, Michigan Sta...
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Date:2014/05/08
A new Special Local Needs label provides an option for blueberry growers and aerial applicators for controlling spotted wing Drosophila.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University Extension, Department of Entomology
T...
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Date:2014/05/08
Many options are available for mite control in fruit crops.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by John Wise, Rufus Isaacs and Larry Gut, Michigan State University Extension, Department of Entomology
Mites can be significant pests of fruit crops. There ...
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Date:2014/05/08
BEIJING, May 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will purchase more frozen pork from the market to stabilize prices and reduce farmers' losses, the country's top economic planning agency said on Wednesday.
The move, the second in two months, ...
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Date:2014/05/09
Nurseries need to check shipments of plants like camellias and hollies that are brought here from southern states for tea scale. Identification, life cycle and control methods to prevent this destructive insect are discussed.
Posted on May 8, 20...
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Date:2014/05/09
Farm producers are past the point in time when farm land rental arrangements need to be in place.
Posted on May 8, 2014 by Dennis Stein, Michigan State University Extension
In general, 2014 farm land rents have trended lower than 2013 for ...