If you're eating a salad in Buffalo, Boston or Cincinnati, there's a pretty good chance the lettuce was grown near the U.S. Mexico border with water from the Colorado River. But the river is in peril.

Nearly 100% of the lettuce in the U.S. is produced in California and Arizona year-round, according to the Agriculture Marketing Resource Center. However, the industry’s crops have taken a hit ...

Key Takeaways • Lettuce turns pink due to a natural spoilage‑protective “rusting” reaction. • Exposure to moisture, air, and ethylene gas, as well as bruised leaves, speed up the pink discoloration. • ...

With its visible location on the road to Point Reyes National Seashore, it's not only locals who patronize the Little Wing ...

For Salinas Valley farmers — who grow more than half the nation’s lettuce, totaling over $1 billion a year in value — the higher prices aren’t translating into more revenue.

Plenty will soon open a new indoor farm in Compton, California, that will produce 4.5 million pounds of leafy greens a year. Storey says growing lettuce in a vertical farm uses about 90% less ...

Prev By: Tomas Hoppough Posted at 10:27 AM, May 19, 2023 and last updated2023-05-19 13:29:08-04 ...