Source:Thomas Pippen, PERISHABLE NEWS, 8/8/16

Researchers at Cornell University are getting more than $5 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants to create a market for broccoli grown on the East Coast. A new grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) aims to bolster small-scale broccoli growers so they can “compete with the best in the world in production efficiency and quality,” according to the project summary.

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