Ashley Nickle

Ashley Nickle is a staff writer for The Packer. She started her journalism career while in college, working for three years as the Kansas State football and men’s basketball correspondent for The Associated Press after starting with the school paper. Two weeks after her graduation in 2013, she moved from Olathe, Kan., to Detroit to take a full-time job as a sports writer for CBS Detroit. She covered the Lions, Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons, daily conducting interviews and writing articles while attending practices and games. A native of Olathe, Ashley returned to the Kansas City area in 2015 and did freelance work covering the Chiefs, Royals, and University of Kansas and Kansas State football for the Associated Press, the Kansas City Star and Chiefs Digest. She also worked as a copy editor for The Topeka Capital-Journal.

Latest Stories
Windset Farms spoke with visitors to its United Fresh Live! booth about its greenhouse-grown Cameo cherry tomatoes-on-the-vine, its Crescendo long peppers, its Fresco Baby Cucumbers and other items.
Kingsville, Ontario-based Mastronardi Produce highlighted at its United Fresh Live! booth several of its newest products, including its Honey Bombs cherry tomatoes-on-the-vine and its Shazam! and Kaboom! peppers.
Sunkist’s Julie DeWolf and Christina Ward spoke with The Packer’s Ashley Nickle about what the company did to make the most of the industry’s first virtual trade show.
Pleasant Prairie, Wis.-based Good Foods Group plans to debut in the coming weeks a direct-to-consumer site.
Organic fresh produce sales exceeded $1.7 billion in the second quarter, a 17% increase from the same period in 2019.
Tops Friendly Markets has moved away from foam produce trays and has switched to a local supplier of greenhouse-grown tomatoes as part of ongoing efforts to reduce the company’s environmental impact.
Long-standing components of produce marketing campaigns targeted to kids and parents have taken on a new relevance as a back-to-school season unlike any other approaches.
The National Mango Board will present next week a webinar entitled “Breaking Point or Pivot Point? How a Microscopic Menace Ignited Monumental Marketing Changes.”
Sunbury, Pa.-based Weis Markets has made significant price reductions on apples, potatoes, bagged salads, tomatoes-on-the-vine and more as part of its Low, Low Price program.
Kari Armbruster, program manager for Kroger’s Zero Hunger|Zero Waste, presented at SPS about the retailer’s sustainability goals and provided more perspective by responding to attendee questions via a live chat.