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Miami-based Fresh Del Monte Inc. and plant-based food supplier Vertage Inc. have announced a strategic partnership.
Agtech veteran David Lee, whose previous roles include president of indoor farming company AppHarvest, will now lead Lockhart, Texas-based Inevitable Tech.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Chiquita is debuting the all-new Sunburst Gold Pineapple.
The California-based avocado grower-distributor has received three awards from the advertising industry’s largest competition, recognizing the company’s avocado integrated-advertising campaign.
After a down crop year in 2022, Yakima, Wash.-based Sage Fruit Co. is looking forward to rebounding with a large cherry crop volume in 2023.
The company says Conscious Greens — field-grown greens that eat like lettuce — were developed with technology using CRISPR, a gene-editing technique used to make changes to the DNA of a plant.
Most notably, the cuts would gut fruit and vegetable benefits by nearly 62%, the association said, substantially decreasing access to nutritious foods for almost 5 million women and kids enrolled in the WIC program.
HAB says the on-demand webinar spotlighting how its U.S. strategy for building demand inspires the industry globally is available on-demand as of May 18.
CMI Orchards’ cherry program offers the largest varietal section of cherries available in the market today, says Rochelle Bohm, vice president of marketing for the Wenatchee, Wash.-based supplier.
Last year’s Washington cherry crop was about 50% of a normal crop, and this year provides the potential to bounce back, says Brianna Shales, marketing director for Stemilt Growers.
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