More than 12 percent of the states total apple crop will come from the Sentinel Pine Orchard in Shoreham, which has 235 acres of trees that will yield a whopping 100,000 bushels, according to Roberta Blodgett, whose husband Whitney Blodgett owns and operates Sentinel Pine. The quality of the fruit is good, and the prices are holding very well. Weekend rainstorms and temporarily running out of apple storage bins are among the few minor problems most orchardists reported having to contend...

Oceana County currently ranks first in asparagus and peach production, third in total vegetable production and fourth in total fruit production in Michigan. producers of tart cherries, blueberries, geraniums and 17 other farm products, although they haven't received near the federal assistance that most Midwestern wheat and corn growers get every year. As Congress crafts a new farm bill, laying out federal agriculture policy and spending for the next five years, the so-called specialty...

Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 11:52 AM Trinidad and Tobago/GMT Contributed by: sunilyr More: 84 Speech by Hon Harry Partap, MP Nariva United National Congress Monday Night Forum Rio Claro Presbyterian School March 12, 2007 Chairman, Distinguished Political Leader, members of the head table, members of the media, ladies and gentlemen. Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 11:52 AM Trinidad and Tobago/GMT Contributed by: sunilyr More: 84 Speech by Hon Harry Partap, MP Nariva United National Congress Monday...

Those wines will be sipped again and again over the next several days as Spicewood Vineyards participates today through Sunday in the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival, where the Manigolds have become an integral part of tasting and evaluation events. Those wines will be sipped again and again over the next several days as Spicewood Vineyards participates today through Sunday in the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival, where the Manigolds have become an integral part of tasting...

To accomplish this tremendous volume increase, producers would need to increase the current 163,000 hectares under grape cultivation to over 1 million hectares. The future bodes well for Chinese vintners, who predict a yearly production of 26 million hl. A further worry for importers-- rumors persist that the Chinese government, looking to protect its weak domestic producers, plans to impose quotas on imports soon. Regardless of differing ways of appreciating the product, domestic wine...