Visitors to the California Avocado Commission’s booth at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit in October will have the opportunity to go back in time — specifically, 40 years.

Catch up on the Michigan apple industry with quick updates from grower-shippers and marketers and the Michigan Apple Committee.

Fresh-cut fruit and vegetable marketer Your Way*Fresh is offering packaging with characters from the popular children’s show “PJ Masks.”

The Food and Drug Administration is launching an online food safety resource for produce importers three months ahead of its original planned release.

Tony and Grammy award-winning performer Leslie Odom, Jr. is on the playbill of the 2018 Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit on Oct. 18.

The California Table Grape Commission has several initiatives promoting grapes throughout the fall season.

Gerawan Farming and other California industry leaders are calling on the United Farm Workers and the California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board to certify the long-delayed results of a November 2013 election.

Sales of table stock potatoes in the 2017-18 season totaled 107 million cwt., a 6% drop from the previous year, but the national average price-per-cwt. rose $1.13, to $11.73, according to the USDA.

Trade sources worry that U.S. exporters of fruit and other commodities may face inspection delays and other non-tariff barriers after the latest round of tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration.

Local food is maintaining its strong appeal in the Twin Cities, but tight and expensive labor make it a challenging business environment for growers.