Vegetable farming
This cover image released by shows "The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables — with Recipes" by Farmer Lee Jones. The 640-page handsome book is equal parts vegetable reference bible, family memoir and recipe collection. (Avery via AP)
A farmer to chefs reveals his deep vegetable knowledge

By Mark Kennedy Apr. 21, 2021 10:17 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, Hispanic farm workers wait in line to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Mecca, Calif. Volunteers in California are working to ensure that the thousands of farmworkers who toil in the fields every day are receiving coronavirus vaccinations. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
California targets critical farmworkers for vaccinations

By Olga R. Rodriguez And Daisy Nguyen Apr. 03, 2021 11:14 AM EDT

Farmers expect neither feast nor famine in 2020 harvests

By Mike Kramer Oct. 03, 2020 01:01 AM EDT
PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — After a dry August, the State Climatologist Office for Illinois classified central Illinois counties as being either abnormally dry or in...

Agriculture workers risk safety and health during pandemic

By Frank Hernandez Of Midwest Center For Investigative Reporting. Sep. 26, 2020 01:01 AM EDT
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Pedro Cabrera Flores, 70, had spent the past eight summers packing green beans into cans in Gillett, Wisconsin. In order to be hired...

Medical staff takes a sample from a man to test for Covid-19, near an apartment complex where dozens of cases have been registered among a community of Bulgarian farm workers, in Mondragone, in the southern Italian region of Campania, Friday, June 26, 2020. The governor of the region is insisting that the farm workers should stay inside for 15 days, not even emerging for food, and that the national civil protection agency should deliver them groceries. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Tensions rise at virus hot spot apartments in southern Italy

By Trisha Thomas And Frances D'emilio Jun. 26, 2020 06:22 AM EDT

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, tours Coastal Sunbelt Produce, Friday, May 15, 2020, in Laurel, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Ivanka Trump tours launch of USDA's family food box program

By Darlene Superville May. 15, 2020 02:43 PM EDT

In this May 5, 2020, seasonal worker James Wodyatt trains the growing hops by winding or tying two or three shoots clockwise to each string, at Stocks Farm in Suckley, Worcestershire. Britain’s fruit and vegetable farmers have long worried that the exit from the European Union would keep out the tens of thousands of Eastern European workers who come every year to pick the country’s produce. Now, the coronavirus pandemic has brought that feared future to the present. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
'Foretaste' of Brexit: Virus cuts off much of UK farm labor

By Sylvia Hui May. 12, 2020 02:51 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press May. 06, 2020 02:25 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: ___ May 4 The Miami Herald on former Miami Dolphins and...

Coronavirus cuts into global french fry demand

By Hal Bernton May. 03, 2020 09:01 AM EDT
ELTOPIA, Wash. (AP) — For farmer Mike Pink, spring is supposed to be a time of hope, when he can survey a green field of young potato plants and anticipate the...

Potted flowers are shown for sale in a greenhouse, Friday, April 24, 2020, in Harmony, Pa. Some garden centers remain shuttered under Wolf's statewide March 19 order for "non-life-sustaining" businesses to close. Nurseries and greenhouses are allowed to remain open and selling, while garden center owners complain that big-box stores, farming supply stores or competitors that sell farm supplies, building materials or other qualifying goods can stay open and sell gardening supplies. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Garden centers, growers struggle in planting-season shutdown

By Marc Levy And Michael Rubinkam Apr. 24, 2020 04:00 PM EDT

A man wearing a face masks as he sits in a bus after arriving from Craiova in Romania at the 'Schoenefeld Airport' in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, April, 2020. The first planes with harvest workers from Romania have been landing in the morning. (Soeren Stache/dpa via AP)
Germany flies in seasonal farm workers amid virus measures

By David Rising Apr. 09, 2020 09:16 AM EDT

In this March 28, 2020, photo, DiMare farm manager Jim Husk holds a ripe tomato, in Homestead, Fla. Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can't sell to restaurants, theme parks or schools nationwide that have closed because of the coronavirus. “This is a catastrophe,” said tomato grower Tony DiMare. “We haven’t even started to calculate it. It’s going to be in the millions of dollars. Losses mount every day." (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Coronavirus claims an unexpected victim: Florida vegetables

By Tamara Lush Apr. 08, 2020 10:31 AM EDT

In this April 6, 2020, photo, a worker tries to remove rotting aquatic tubers known as lotus roots in the Huangpi district of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Chinese leaders are eager to revive the economy, but the bleak situation in Huangpi in Wuhan's outskirts highlights the damage to farmers struggling to stay afloat after the country shut down for two months. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Wuhan farmers struggle as crops wither from travel limits

By Sam Mcneil Apr. 07, 2020 03:27 AM EDT