Fruits & Vegetables

June 19, 2024
Farmers worry as seed firms scale back production

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

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