Fruits & Vegetables
- June 19, 2024
- Farmers worry as seed firms scale back production
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During vine seed harvest the fruit is ground as seeds are separated and preserved. Seed acreage has declined amid reduced production demand.
Photo/Vicky Boyd
- June 5, 2024
- Emerging virus variants are testing lettuce growers
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In the Salinas Valley, University of California researchers are working to develop plant resistance to new evolutions of longstanding crop diseases in lettuce, including Fusarium, Verticillium and Pythium.
Photo/Marita Cantwell/Regents of the University of California