Packer Stories

01/31/2012

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cited Florida Prime Mushrooms Inc., doing business as Quincy Farms, Quincy, Fla., for failing to pay $434,627 to two sellers for 23 lots of produce.

Florida Prime Mushrooms Inc. is barred from operating in the produce industry until Jan. 17, 2014. The responsibly connected principal, Bruce Broomall, cannot be employed by any Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act licensee until Jan. 17, 2013.

01/30/2012

Few crops are grown as sustainably as mushrooms, grower-shippers say.

01/30/2012

Brown mushrooms — especially portabellas and baby portabellas — continue to gain ground on traditional white button mushrooms and actually outsell the whites in certain categories, grower-shippers say.

01/13/2012

For the third year in a row, the San Jose, Calif.-based Mushroom Council lent its support to the fight against breast cancer.

01/12/2012

Giorgio Fresh Co. won an award for best overall mushroom at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa.