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.
About 90 percent of broccoli consumed in the U.S. comes from farms in California, and the vegetable doesn’t grow well in the northeast because the temperature doesn’t drop low enough at night. Researchers think that with new strains of broccoli, developed as part of the project, crops will fare better in the region.
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