Nuseed Carinata raises expectations as a superior alternative to fallow ground or conventional winter cover crops. It not only provides substantial agronomic benefits to your land, carinata also is harvested for use as a unique feedstock for certified, stainable biofuels, rewarding growers for the contract production of carinata grain for end-use markets. The Gold Standard in Cover Crops Nuseed Carinata invigorates …
TriEst Ag Group: Partners in Profitability
There is a lot of talk about sustainability and regeneration in agriculture these days. But what do those terms really mean? If you ask five people, you might get five different definitions. But for Josh Mays, Director of Agronomy for TriEst Ag Group, it all starts with profitability. Mays says “We should all be critical of how farming practices impact …
SECURE FUNDING NOW | USDA-Sponsored Farming Project Underway in the Southern Piedmont
Rodale Institute, a nationally recognized agricultural nonprofit, has been hard at work to expand resilient farming practices in the Southeast. Through a USDA-funded project, Rodale Institute and its partners are enrolling 100 organic and conventional vegetable farmers as well as farmers markets across the Southern Piedmont region (Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama), in a research study that …
Celebrating 50 Years of Growth
Chemical Dynamics is a leading provider of crop nutrition solutions, focused on helping farmers grow specialty crops in Florida, the Southeast and across the US. Our company was founded in 1973 by W.B. “Hap” Carson in Plant City, FL and has been a family-owned and operated business for three generations. For the past 50 years, we have developed a diverse …
Protect Your Groves From Citrus Leafminer
Healthy citrus fruit in FL. The citrus leafminer is a small, hard-to-detect pest that hides during the day and comes out at night to lay its eggs. Though this pest is small, it’s been known to cause severe damage to FL citrus crops. Having a broad-spectrum insecticide at your fingertips could go a long way in protecting your crops. While …
Specialty Crop Growers Look to Take on Supply Chain Challenges
Over the past several years, the U.S. agriculture industry has never faced such unprecedented realities of supply uncertainty and sourcing challenges to meet consumer demand, and ultimately deliver an abundant food supply. Shipping challenges worldwide have made getting imports for specialty crop production incredibly difficult, costly and time-consuming. As significant chemical shortages and delays in receiving products persist, growers and retailers look to confide in a reliable partner. To help understand how we got here, it’s …
Don’t leave your success to chance: Place your bet on a solid crop protection strategy  
Specialty crop growers are high-stakes gamblers. Despite meticulous planning and vast experience, any grower can succumb to factors out of their control. Every season, you put everything on the line, taking a chance on a crop to make a profit — or lose it all. Like any gambler, you aim to stack the deck to ensure you’re not leaving success up to chance.      Shan Brooks, Atticus director, Florida & specialty markets/products, is no stranger to the risks you take season after season.      “Growers of specialty …
Making Sense of Biologicals: Crop Optimization With Seaweed
Sometimes vegetable and specialty crop growers must think outside the box to remain sustainable amid high input costs and devastating diseases. What if seaweed could be used to aid in the quality of strawberries, bell peppers or tomatoes? Seaweed is a biostimulant that is part of the biological crop protection products that vegetable and specialty crop producers are increasingly using …
Breaking the Insect Population Cycle in Vegetables with Dual Modes of Action
By: Craig Campbell, Senior Field Market Development Specialist (Valent U.S.A.) Southeastern vegetable growers are fighting a tough battle against damaging pests like whiteflies, thrips and aphids. Valent U.S.A. is excited to announce that Senstarâ„¢ Insecticide is now available to control these tough insect pests in brassica, leafy, fruiting and bulb vegetable production. Senstar works by combining two effective modes of …
UGA Extension helps Georgia Grown connect to consumers
By Maria M. Lameiras for UGA CAES News Like the moments before a race begins, dozens of staff with Georgia Grown and University of Georgia Cooperative Extension prepared to load thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables into hundreds of waiting cars and trucks stretched out in long lines at the Gwinnett Georgia Grown To Go event in Lawrenceville, …