lettuce

While much of the American workforce looks forwards to retiring around 65, many seasonal farmworkers have no choice but to keep working well past that…

Yuma, Arizona provides the majority of winter leafy greens in the U.S. and Salinas, California grows those same crops in the summer. When harvest periods…

Efforts to protect the country's agricultural crops from pathogens and other threats requires some unusual practices. Maya Springhawk Robnett of the…

A flock of birds can damage acres of fresh produce.“Not only can they eat the produce or eat your seedlings or your seeds, but they also poop in the…

More than 150 lettuce growers and researchers are gathering this week in Yuma to discuss a soil-borne fungal disease that damages lettuce crops in the…

Reporter Blake Herzog recently wrote an article for the Yuma Sun about media coverage of agriculture, after she attended a town hall forum that focused on…

Fusarium wilt - a lettuce disease caused by a soil-dwelling fungus - is becoming a more common problem in fields. The disease causes lettuce to droop and…

Growers in Arizona and around the world are concerned with the spread of a wilting disease present in soil that can damage lettuce.In response,…

AZED-Hundreds of people from all over the world are expected to attend the Southwest Agriculture Summit at Arizona Western College.The summit will start…

Arizona Edition - Yuma Lettuce Days is an annual event that brings in tens of thousands of visitors and residents to the Yuma Quartermaster Depot Park to…