Home Grown: Tractor fabrication maintenance ahead of planting season
In today’s Home Grown, a group of local fabricators are getting tractors and machines ready for this year’s planting…
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Home Grown: INSV lettuce virus workshop in Yuma
In today’s Home Grown, a type of virus called Impatients Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV) was first detected in Yuma County lettuce in spring…
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Home Grown: UV light machine removes pathogens from ag water
In today’s Home Grown, an ultraviolet (UV) light machine is taking sanitation to new…
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Home Grown: Harvest automation is the newest farmer on the field
In today’s Home Grown, we look at a way that man and machine can co-exist side by side in the…
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Home Grown: Large hemp field in Wellton helps grow national hemp industry
In today’s Home Grown, Yuma County is playing a large role in the nation’s expanding hemp…
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Home Grown: Ag listed as low priority for drought water cuts
Experts with the Central Arizona Project say that we will experience a water shortage in…
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Home Grown: Hemp wheat is the newest experiment in ag
2020 hemp production in Arizona was about 1/5 less than the previous year.…
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Home Grown: Registration begins for Master Gardener class
In today’s Home Grown, we dive into an upcoming Master Gardener class for all experience levels to learn about agriculture in…
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Home Grown: Critical months for harvesting wheat and barley seeds
In the next week or two, farmers will be harvesting wheat, oats and barley for seed…
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Home Grown: Agritourism combines two of Yuma’s economic driving forces
In today’s Home Grown, two of Yuma’s biggest economic contributions have merged into one: agriculture and…
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Home Grown: Preschoolers learn to grow vegetables and raise livestock
In today’s Home Grown, we feature some farmers that are starting their agriculture career at a young…
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Home Grown: Dispute over water rights possibly going to U.S. Supreme Court
In today’s Home Grown, a local lawsuit over ownership of the Colorado River water might be taken higher to the U.S. Supreme…
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SPECIAL REPORT: Scaling back on ag due to farmworker shortage
Day laborers are essential in supplying our nation’s food source, but a lack of workers has made it difficult for the industry to keep up with the…
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Home Grown: Watermelon and peppers kick off with heat
It’s time to turn up the heat in summer crops, but it all starts with the transplants before getting put into the…
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Home Grown: Whiteflies and looper can threaten melons
Whiteflies are the first most common pests. They can draw down vines by laying eggs and the insect will suck the nutrients out of the…
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Home Grown: Weather delays rotation crop growth
One local farmer says it’s been a strange year for some of the rotation crops because of unique spring…
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Home Grown: Ag drones making farming cheaper and more effective
Drones are becoming a game-changer for agriculture in the Desert Southwest. In some cases, it can be more cost effective and efficient than manual…
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Home Grown: Expert discovers common virus in Yuma crops
A common virus that can be found in more 600 species of plants has now infected Yuma crops, and mainly…
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Home Grown: Hundred of farmworkers get first vaccine dose
Taylor Farms has been able to vaccinate more than 1,100 people in the last eight days, but it doesn’t stop…
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Home Grown: Local ag broadcaster, George Gatley, passes away
The former local broadcaster, George Gatley, known for his agriculture reporting at KYMA among others, has passed…
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