The lettuce seemed to glow in the moonlight. Thirty-two men and women flashing knives, folding boxes, bagging hearts: chewing up a Yuma Valley lettuce field. It was Day 55 of the romaine harvesting ...

Researchers used crop enterprise budgets to provide baseline information and contrast the economic potential of growing lettuce and tomato under high tunnel and open-field production systems. Results ...

Space-saving, low-input, pest-free: vertical farming is often regarded as a solution to many of conventional agriculture’s woes. But the findings of a new study draw a question mark over its prospects ...

In this May 23, 2013, photo, Jorge Heraud, CEO of Blue River Technology, center, explains how the lettuce bot works as software engineer Willy Pell, in green, watches in Salinas, Calif. In the Salinas ...

In this week’s Field report, Danni Hayes, manager of Pete’s Produce, talks about lettuce and garlic scallions, both being harvested now at the Westtown farm. Garlic scallions, also called green garlic ...

The following is an excerpt of The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little. Jorge Heraud is in a Californian lettuce field and he’s about to lose his mind.

Click to open image viewer. A man stands on a truck and assembles Cookie Head Lettuce boxes with a machine in a field in the Salinas Valley, California, while braceros pick up the ready boxes to fill ...

As state and federal public health officials continue to investigate the E. coli O145 outbreak tied to bagged Freshway Foods romaine lettuce, which has sickened 19 in 3 states, many questions remain.

A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by engineers. A vegetable-picking robot that uses ...

Click to open image viewer. View over Toro lettuce boxes from above a truck in a lettuce field in the Salinas Valley, California. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. IIIF provides ...