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Event in the Big Apple is No Small Peanuts

April 06, 2015 Charles Parrott, Agricultural Marketing Service Fruit and Vegetable Program Deputy Administrator

You may not see the natural connection between peanut farmers and New York City. However, I recently had the chance to see both worlds collide during a National Peanut Board meeting in the big apple. In addition to the normal items of business, the board also planned some unique peanut-inspired...

Food and Nutrition

The Woman Who Cultivated a Billion-Dollar Industry

March 15, 2012 Charles Parrott, Acting Deputy Administrator, AMS Fruit and Vegetable Program

A Whitesbog, NJ, native born in 1871, Elizabeth Coleman White spent her childhood summers helping out on her parents' cranberry farm in the Pine Barrens. While harvesting cranberries, she often wondered if the wild blueberries sprinkled on her parents' farm could be cultivated like the cranberries...

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