The Commercial Horticulture Program provides multidimensional research-based information, support services, and training to a growing hortic...
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Each growing season, producers must decide how and where to sell their crops. Farmers markets, grocery stores, roadside stands, and wholesal...
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Whether you are raising one or a thousand laying hens, maintaining the best possible cleanliness and safety of the eggs produced lea...
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Learn about floodwater, risk assessment, contaminated crops, and what food crop producers can do to prepare for flooding.
Throughout the ...
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More people than ever want to give farming a try. In the past, people turned to farming family members for help. Today, most people are ...
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Best practices in livestock and forage production is the subject of ongoing programs conducted by Alabama Extension animal science and forag...
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Best practices in all aspects of poultry production was the subject of multiple workshops, trainings, social media posts, podcasts, and publ...
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The Alabama Cooperative Extension System Beginning Farmer program offers special training events for all farmers. This program, with the hel...
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Table of Contents
Introduction – Ayanava Majumdar 3
About AIDB – Rachel Chastain 4
Grow Your Own Food – Chip East 5
To...
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Pesticides can help in crop production, however, people need to understand when to use and when not to use pesticides. The correct use of pe...
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Alabama has a booming fruit and vegetable production industry which generates more than $160 million in revenue and provides employment to t...
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