date:Jan 31, 2013
watermelon and cantaloupe growers in Indiana are poised to stand together in implementing good agricultural practices and using third-party certification and plan to put pressure on growers who do not.
Pointing out that the states melon growers lost a lot of market share and untold amounts of money last summer because of the multi-state outbreak caused by Salmonella-infected cantaloupes from a farm in Indiana, Gilliam said that sort of fiasco affects all farmers of a crop, no matter how big or