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GENERAL

Commercial Vegetable Production Guides - guides for growing over 60 different vegetables.

Florida Tomatoes - contains educational, market, retail and food service information as well as recipes.

Produce for Better Health Foundation - a nonprofit organization designed to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables to an average of 5 or more servings a day to improve the health of Americans.

Vidalia Onion Web - contains links to web pages developed for individual Vidalia onion growers and has information on production, recipes, and photographs.


ASSOCIATIONS / BOARDS / COUNCILS

Belgian Endive Marketing Board - contains recipes and information about marketing Belgian Endive.

California Tomato Commission - a state-mandated, 100% industry-funded organization that represents the growers, packers and shippers of California-grown fresh market tomatoes.

California Tomato Growers Association, Inc. - California's tomato growers produce more than 90% of the nation's processed tomatoes and nearly half of the world's total tomato tonnage.

Canadian Produce Marketing Association - members are companies active in the marketing of fresh fruits and vegetables in Canada from the farm to the dinner plate.

Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association - an agricultural trade organization whose mission is to enhance the competitive and business environment for producing fruits, vegetables and other crops in Florida.

Fresh Produce Association of the Americas - mission to develop and promote trade between growers and shippers in Mexico and other foreign countries and receivers throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Hydoponic Society of America - formally organized in 1980 to provide an exchange of ideas and information about hydroponics.

International Sprout Growers Association - the professional association of sprout growers and companies providing products and services to the sprout industry.

Leafy Greens Council - provides market, nutritional, and educational information to consumers, produce growers and produce buyers.

National Onion Association - provides information about onions to farmers, distributors, and consumers; recipes, trivia and nutritional facts are all available.

North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission - information and news about North Carolina sweet potatoes and the farmers. Includes kids activities, recipes, and a searchable shipper, processor and seedman directory.

Produce Marketing Association - trade association serving over 2,500 members marketing fresh fruits, vegetables and floral products worldwide.

Texas Vegetable Association - provides the Texas vegetable industry with a strong voice on vegetable production issues.

Western Growers Association - a 3,300 member agricultural trade association whose members grow, pack and ship more than half of the nation's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts.

Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association - mission to assist members as stewards of the land and to succeed through grower information, environmentally sound research, governmental action and promotion efforts.


PUBLICATIONS

Citrus & Vegetable - a magazine that delivers profitable production and management strategies to Florida's growers.

The Grower - the only audited publication reaching both large fruit and vegetable commercial producers.