Home Grown: Irrigators attempt to conserve water
In today’s Home Grown, we address how ag workers are attempting to conserve water while keeping plants…
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Home Grown: Sen. Kelly applauds Yuma’s ag conservation effort
In today’s Home Grown, we address the water crisis in the western region as the Colorado River reservoirs hit record…
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Home Grown: Traps to detect microscopic California red scale insects
In today’s Home Grown, farmers are faced with many threats in the growing process. One of those is the California red scale…
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Home Grown: High-tech tractors harvesting cotton just in time for produce season
In today’s Home Grown, farmers are working more than 12 hours a days, seven days a week to harvest cotton off the field in time for winter produce…
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Home Grown: Ag education remains consistent throughout pandemic
In today’s Home Grown, Yuma County continues to be a prime spot for agriculture…
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Home Grown: Transplants ready to go in the dirt ahead of vegetable season
In today’s Home Grown, preparation is underway county-wide ahead of the winter vegetable…
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Home Grown: Field trials find INSV in summer weeds
In today’s Home Grown, trials are being done to see if there is a way to prevent a crop from catching a virus that is new to Yuma…
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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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