Farm Bureau in the News

From hail to heat waves: RI farmers weather a year of extremes (and it’s affecting the corn)

Henry B. Wright, president of the Rhode Island Farm Bureau, surveys the cornfield at Morris Farms in Exeter.

RI Farm Bureau President, Henry B. Wright III, spoke with the Providence Journal about 2025’s challenging growing season.

From hail to heat waves: RI farmers weather a year of extremes (and it’s affecting the corn)

 

Kicking up the dry dirt at Exeter's Morris Farms on July 30, Rhode Island Farm Bureau president Henry B. Wright said, "This is not happy corn."

 

Henry B. Wright, president of the Rhode Island Farm Bureau, said the heat has stalled some corn harvesting, as "the varieties are not coming in as they should."

 

Recently, RIFB board member Vinny Confreda was featured in FSA’s Fence Post magazine. Farming since 1922, Confreda Farms is one of the oldest and largest commercial vegetable farms in Rhode Island.

 

Read the article here.

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Three generations of the Confreda Family in their greenhouse.