Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter

Mobile Irrigation Lab Expands Services for 2025 with Full Crew and New Grant Programs

Cecilia Parsons Mar 1, 2025

When Brandon Heinrich of B&M Orchards Inc. was in junior high, he wanted to be a petroleum engineer. Until his dad pointed him toward Future Farmers…

Lori Fairchild Feb 1, 2025

Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter

If you talk to Mollie Sitkin of Old Dog Ranch Family Farm, you’ll probably hear the word “quality” a lot. That’s because Sitkin is banking on…

Lori Fairchild Jan 1, 2025

Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter

Family farms are evolving to stay afloat, and nowhere is that more evident than at Machado Family Farms where Drew and Melissa Machado Cheney are…

Lori Fairchild Dec 1, 2024

Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter

Theresa Schneider, a fourth-generation grower who co-owns A&J Family Farms, Inc. in Chico, Calif. with her mom Janet, does it all on her 200-acre…

Lori Fairchild Nov 15, 2024

Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter

Rich Gemperle of Gemperle Family Farms grew up on the family farm in Turlock, Calif. doing chores for the egg-producing side of his family’s…

Lori Fairchild Oct 15, 2024

Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter

Mike Miya of Miya Farms in Hanford, Calif. farms the same land his grandparents worked in the 1920s. He and his brother, Mark, and sister, Melynda…

Lori Fairchild Sep 15, 2024

Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter