Home Grown: Farmers face challenges as production costs continue to skyrocket
YUMA, Ariz. (KECY, KYMA) – In today’s Home Grown, Yuma County is the Winter Lettuce Capital of North America and produces about 90 percent of…
Continue ReadingYUMA, Ariz. (KECY, KYMA) – In today’s Home Grown, Yuma County is the Winter Lettuce Capital of North America and produces about 90 percent of…
Continue ReadingYUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – In today’s Home Grown, the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension hosted the Fall Integrated Pest Management…
Continue ReadingYUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – In today’s Home Grown, drought preparations continue throughout the country. And locally in the desert southwest,…
Continue ReadingYUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – In today’s Home Grown, Lake Mead and Lake Powell are in danger of reaching critically low levels, causing local…
Continue ReadingYUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) –Â In today’s Home Grown, A plan is circulating among irrigation districts in Imperial Valley and Yuma to reduce Colorado…
Continue ReadingYUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – In today’s Home Grown, The University of Arizona is testing a new way to grow crops with less water. This freshly picked…
Continue ReadingYUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) –Â In today’s Home Grown, Italian cuisine is known for its pasta dishes that are as much local culture, as they are food,…
Continue ReadingThe University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Along with local growers and seedsmen are trying to figure out how to bring industrial hemp to the…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, the crops that were grown over dry desert land are responding well to the trial in…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, a master gardener class is now accepting attendees for the summer…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, an agriculture program called Southwest Ag (SWAG) is planting a little seed in young…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, kids of all ages are tasked with a big responsibility of being a meat…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, prevention is the best way to limit crops from getting a…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, researchers are experimenting with desert soil because it typically can not grow crops…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, we lay out downy mildew and how it affects Yuma…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, a field trial put on by the Yuma County Cooperative extension gives valuable information to local…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, Gov. Doug Ducey has outlined a plan to bring more water resources to Arizona’s decreasing water…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, the tedious work of growing a natural product out of the ground really requires all hands on…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, the ag industry is taking a more proactive approach to food…
Continue ReadingIn today’s Home Grown, if you live on the Yuma Mesa and are bothered by pesky gnats, you’re not alone, but there is something you can do to get rid…
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