May 19, 2023
TALLAHASSEE – Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson anticipates farmers, along the construction and tourism industries, will face “challenges” due to recently signed legislation that targets illegal immigration. But [...Read More ]
May 15, 2023
University of Florida researchers may have found the key to developing tomatoes that can resist a catastrophic disease. Although it has been around for 50 years, target [...Read More ]
May 5, 2023
Lipman Family Farms, Immokalee, Fla., has presented a check for $3 million to the Redlands Christian Migrant Association’s Immokalee Community Academy. The donation represents the single-largest [...Read More ]
April 5, 2023
At the end of March, the Department of Labor’s new formula for H-2A wages, the Adverse Effect Wage Rate or AEWR, took effect. Now farm families [...Read More ]
April 3, 2023
The labor situation facing specialty crop growers in the U.S. can be illustrated with a single number: 371,619. That’s the number of H-2A temporary visas certified [...Read More ]
March 10, 2023
Though Paul J. DiMare Sr. started his produce career at the family’s wholesale operation in Boston, he made his biggest mark in the Florida tomato industry, [...Read More ]
March 7, 2023
Technology has automated the simplest task in agriculture — driving a tractor. But it hasn’t just replicated the ability of a human, it has improved the [...Read More ]
February 9, 2023
The value of U.S. imports of fresh produce increased at a double-digit pace in 2022, with volume growing at a moderate pace. The USDA reported fresh [...Read More ]
December 30, 2022
DiMare, who served on the University of Miami Board of Trustees for 18 years, became the largest grower of fresh-market tomatoes in the nation, earning the [...Read More ]