CORDELE, Ga. — Leger & Son, a watermelon grower and distributor with farms in Georgia and Florida, will begin delivering watermelons that can be traced at the individual unit level this month to major ...

The University of California Cooperative Extension has a slice of sweet news for watermelon growers: Farmers may be able to produce stronger, higher-yield, more disease-resistant watermelon crops by ...

One of the more amusing commercial watermelon innovations I’ve seen is the square watermelon. Farmers in Japan developed this novelty, hoping it would catch on as a way to efficiently use space in ...

Sweet, drippy, and a tad crunchy, a bite of a watermelon evokes nostalgic feelings of balmy beach days and summer barbecues. But for a subset of amateur farmers across the country, watermelons are ...

LALELAND – Two new viruses had been circulating among watermelon fields since 2019, and it took a lot of footwork by university plant pathologists to identify them. They identified the WaCLAV-1 and ...