Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Specialty Crops”
A crop we don’t cover on the Bottom-Line report, cherries. The 2025 cherry harvest well underway in the northwestern part of the country, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, three major states, and estimates are it’s the best crop in three years. Two and a half million 20-pound boxes. Interesting they don’t measure in bushels or tons like we do other crops, but …
Georgia Pecan growers look to increase exports of pecans through the support of the Georgia Congressional Delegation. The delegation, including Representative Rick Allen, Buddy Carter, Sanford Bishop, Lucy McBath, Rich McCormick, Austin Scott, David Scott and Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, urged the US Department of Agriculture to expedite the process of obtaining market access for more Georgia pecans …
Registration is now open for the highly anticipated 2025 Citrus & Specialty Crop Expo. The event takes place Aug. 20–21at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa. Growers and industry professionals are invited to sign up now for complimentary registration to this two-day event filled with education, networking and innovation. Hosted by AgNet Media, the Expo is Florida’s premier event for …
The value of U.S. industrial hemp production reached $445 million in 2024, representing a 40% increase over the prior year. That’s according to the National Hemp Report that came out last week. Total planted area for hemp jumped to almost 45,300 acres, 64% higher than in 2023, with harvested area also rising to just under 32,700 acres. Floral hemp has …
Earlier this week, the US Department of Commerce announced its intention to withdraw from the 2019 Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico. In a press release, the International Trade Administration noted that this move comes from the failure to protect US tomato growers from unfairly priced Mexican imports. The withdrawal will become effective in 90 days …
While there has been a lot of uncertainty in the markets as of late, Mark Oppold reports today on how gold and silver prices have been are doing. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
With March over, we just completed the first quarter of trading in 2025. So today, Mark Oppold takes time to review how certain agricultural commodities have performed thus far this year. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
With two months of 2025 now past us, Mark Oppold takes time to review how certain agricultural commodities have performed thus far this year. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
A change in deadline for those eligible producers to respond to USDA’s latest sub survey associated with the Census of Agriculture. “We’re talking about floriculture, horticulture, nursery type crops, sod, food crops grown under glass. That’s kind of the space that we’re really talking about,” said Lance Honing of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service talking about the focus of the …
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. In 1860, Horace Greeley wrote in his New York Tribune newspaper, “I would not live in Minnesota because you can’t grow apples there”. Indeed, no one at that time had solved the short growing season, but that finally changed in 1868 when horticulturalist Peter Gideon cultivated and grew an apple that …
