Thursday, September 02, 2010
Every nursery can expect to suffer from some level of "shrink," in which damage or disease renders plants unmarketable. However, companies often throw away opportunities to reduce shrink, simply due to negligence or complacency, said Paul Hammer, retired horticulture professor from Purdue Uni ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:51 AM
PORTLAND -- To stand out in a crowded market, nursery operators need to consider more than just plants. Often, it's the container that catches the consumer's eye and makes the sale, according to experts at the recent Farwest Show in Portland. "I could talk about pots all day long. I'm a pl ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:52 AM
There's no doubt that most industries, including the nursery business, have taken a hit in the weak economy. But flowers, especially those with long or unusually colored blooms, are doing relatively well, nursery operators said. "Any kind of a new perennial plant with a flower on it is always o ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:09 AM
DAMASCUS, Ore. -- It takes more than a few strokes of bad luck to destroy a three-generation family business. Amid weathering an economy that has wreaked havoc on the nursery industry, William Dillard Nursery lost 45 greenhouses to heavy snow pack in December 2009. Then in March, its office, ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:19 AM
Nursery producers are attacking a federal renewable energy subsidy that benefits forestland owners and others in the timber industry. The USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program, or BCAP, aims to increase the amount of energy generated from agricultural and forestry wastes. By artificially ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:28 AM
The USDA did not violate environmental law by requiring imported wood packing material to be fumigated or heated to ward off exotic insect pests, according to a federal appeals court. Raw wood used to package foreign cargo has been linked to the introduction of invasive species, such as the e ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:29 AM
Federal officials provided West Coast nurseries breathing room this week when they delayed a new requirement for shipping nursery stock that can host sudden oak death. But the delay falls short of easing industry concerns. USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service officials ear ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:09 AM
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Local governments in California and other Western states have tried to clamp down on medical marijuana, but Oakland has taken a different approach. If you can't beat 'em, tax 'em. After becoming the first U.S. city to impose a special tax on medical ...
Sunday, May 30, 2010 9:09 AM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Newly implemented provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill are opening the door to possible federal aid for Indiana Christmas tree growers and tree nurseries hit by losses caused by severe weather. Indiana's Farm Service Agency offices began taking disaster aid applications on M ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:49 AM
John Aguirre, who led the Oregon nursery industry through unprecedented growth during the last decade, is leaving the Oregon Association of Nurseries. Aguirre, 48, is leaving June 1 to become president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers. During his 11 years at OAN, Ag ...
Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:29 PM
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- USDA-ARS entomologist Jana Lee spends a lot of time working with good guys and bad guys. But she's no cop. The bad guys in her world are insects that can do harm to plants and crops. The guys in the white hats are beneficial predators and naturally occurring compounds she ho ...
Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:30 AM
South Carolina has abandoned regulations that hindered nursery stock shipments from the West Coast, capitulating to demands from California and Oregon nursery groups. On April 19, South Carolina regulators withdrew regulations aimed at preventing the spread of Phytophthora ramorum, or sud ...
Saturday, May 22, 2010 9:09 AM
South Carolina has abandoned regulations that hindered nursery stock shipments from the West Coast, capitulating to demands from California and Oregon nursery groups. On April 19, the state regulators withdrew regulations aimed at preventing the spread of phytophthora ramorum, or sudden oak dea ...
Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:49 PM
WOODBURN, Ore. -- The mood is far from rosy in the U.S. cut-flower industry, but despite the economic recession, U.S. flower growers are entering the spring season with high hopes. "It's really been pretty good," said Barb Iverson of Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn, Ore., of year-to-da ...
Saturday, May 01, 2010 10:28 AM
DAMASCUS, Ore. (AP) -- Fire burned a barn and damaged the office at the William Dillard Nursery in Damascus. The Oregonian reports the Boring Fire District went to three alarms Thursday evening because of winds and a lack of access to water. No one was injured. The 40-year- ...
Sunday, March 28, 2010 9:28 AM
Nursery groups from California and Oregon have filed suit against South Carolina, seeking to overturn regulations that limit plant shipments to that state. Plaintiffs in the case -- the California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers and the Oregon Association of Nurseries -- filed ...
Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:29 AM
Pest temporarily paralyzed by ornamental plant ARS News Service Geraniums may hold the key to controlling the devastating Japanese beetle, which feeds on nearly 300 plant species and costs the ornamental plant industry $450 million in damage each year, according to scientists with the Agr ...
Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:09 AM
Two nursery groups have announced they've filed suit against South Carolina, seeking to overturn regulations that limit plant shipments to that state. The California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers and the Oregon Association of Nurseries filed the federal lawsuit against the state of S ...
Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:29 PM
Located more than 30 miles from Portland, Ore., Bauman Farms can't depend on gardeners from the state's largest metropolis to discover the nursery by accident. For that reason, Bauman Farms' booth at the annual Yard, Garden and Patio Show in Portland is a critical marketing tool, said co- ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:28 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, David Niklas feels the quickening of spring as the season ramps up at his wholesale nursery in a farming community south of Portland. Niklas and his workers busily package plants for shipment. These days, his flowe ...
Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:07 AM
WOODINVILLE, Wash. -- At Molbak's Nursery, environmental control is a set-it-and-forget-it operation. As head grower Ken Rundle explained to a group of Farm Bureau members, computers monitor exterior and interior conditions, then adjust for temperature, light and water for whatever is gro ...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:29 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon's nursery and greenhouse industry, long the leading light of the state's agricultural economy, is in the depths of a historic downturn that is shedding jobs, causing bankruptcies and eroding the state's reputation as the best place in the country to grow pl ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:09 AM
MAGALIA, Calif. (AP) -- The state's only nursery devoted to replanting areas destroyed by wildfires and battered by erosion is shutting down because of the budget crisis. The state Legislature cut $3 million from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Agency spokeswoman ...
Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:34 PM
HONOLULU (AP) -- Some Hawaii residents are finding it hard to find Christmas trees this season. Vendors have cut back on shipments from the mainland because its costs them about $20 to bring in each tree by ship. Ipo Waiwaiole sells trees in Kailua. He says he and other vendors have ord ...
Friday, December 18, 2009 1:18 PM
About five years ago, Robin Cross came across some financial paperwork that provoked a strong sense of deja vu. As a part-time chief financial officer at Kraemer's Nursery in Mount Angel, Ore., Cross noticed that a major client -- a mass merchant retailer -- had begun sending along famili ...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:50 AM
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -- The 700 red poinsettias lined up in a University of New Hampshire greenhouse are sort of the horticultural version of hybrid cars: they're being grown at different temperatures in hopes of creating a more fuel-efficient plant. Growing the perfect poinsettia has always ...
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