NJFB President Ryck Suydam and Executive Director Peter Furey participated in an interview on Central Jersey’s Magic 98.3 regarding agriculture in the Garden State. Click here to listen to the interview.
Click here to read this article written by NJFB Executive Director Peter Furey for the NJ Municipalities Magazine.
You might not expect one of New Jersey’s oldest industries to also be one of its most creative, but the fact is, farmers know how to innovate. They have to. In agriculture, margins are slim, expenses are unpredictable and the weather that makes a successful…
New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher recently marked the start of the state’s fall agritourism season while visiting a sunflower maze in Sussex County. The weeks after Labor Day are a “wonderful time to visit Garden State farms,” he said during the event. But…
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture’s (NJDA) Division of Marketing and Development works with seven different commodity promotion councils on projects aimed at enhancing commodity-specific marketing and research opportunities. This partnership is in place for the following promotional councils: wine, apples, poultry, dairy, sweet potatoes,…
Congratulations! We finally made it! Here we are on the first day of spring. Not that this means you can go outside and plant everything you want, or that Ol’ Man Winter won’t revisit our neighborhoods. But at least there’s the sense that the end…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House. And the Obamas can thank Wyckoff’s Christmas Tree Farm outside Belvidere for that. First lady Michelle Obama today accepted four trees from the White Township farm to be featured in the executive mansion,…
