Mulberry, FL (July 23, 2019) – David L. Bagley has officially joined the Highland Ag Solutions team. Bagley, a true veteran of agriculture, began his career as a produce inspector for the state of Florida. He was then hired by the Esformes family of Pacific Tomato Growers (PTG) where he was employed for 40 years, moving from produce buyer and managing west coast tomato …
In order to control agricultural pests, sometimes growers need to turn to natural solutions to help increase the efficiency of an existing integrated pest management program, or in the case of organic growers, to meet regulatory standards. One of the most heavily utilized natural solutions to control these pests is the use of biocontrol agents. …
Recently, many of our customers have been experiencing strawberry crown rot, leaf spots and fungal pathogens on berries and vegetable crops. In the case of strawberries, the prolonged overhead irrigation required after transplanting provides optimal infection conditions for bacterial and fungal pathogens. In addition, warm and humid weather conditions result in increased disease pressure on …
If your operation is registered with FDA as a food facility, you are required to be compliant with the Preventive Controls for Human Foods Rule, rather than the Produce Safety rule. This is an important distinction. Many packing or storage facilities previously registered under older criterion can now be categorized as secondary farms under the Produce Safety …
Late spring and early summer are the times of year where a drive through eastern North Carolina takes you through fields and fields of strawberry patches hugging the ground in perfectly manicured rows. It gives you the kind of feeling the Beatles crooned about: that the strawberry fields really do go on forever. Even though …
A grower wakes to the glowing light of the phone on his night table. A notification has been pushed from the weather station in the early hours due to last night’s storm, which produced heavy rainfall. A second one appears quickly after from the soil and salinity probe, notifying him that he is reaching his …
The bane of any farmer’s operation is an unpredictable shift in weather that can harm one’s crop. From rains at harvest, to freezes during flowering, even the best predictive weather models cannot always account for inopportune weather. Farmers spend a decent portion of their time constantly observing the patterns of mother nature, in the hopes …
HPA now offers the Highland Hub to our agricultural educators, providing access to the exact application that numerous farms are implementing in their own operations. Join our training session at the FFA State Convention on June 14. It’s open to all agriculture educators that are interested in purchasing the Highland Hub for their classroom. For …
We hear it all of the time when we meet a new customer, attending an industry show, or answering questions on a discussion panel, “You all are a drone company, right?” It’s then that we smile and realize what a great opportunity we have to let them know what Precision Agriculture means.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), is said to be the most sweeping reform of our food safety laws in more than 70 years. FSMA is made up of seven major rules, one of which being the Produce Safety Rule.