Christina Herrick

Christina Herrick

Christina Herrick serves as the produce editor for The Packer, where she provides in-depth coverage of the fresh produce industry. With a keen focus on the economic realities facing growers, packers and shippers, she explores the complexities of agricultural labor and the rising costs of production. Herrick is a leading voice on new technologies transforming specialty crop farming. As host of The Packer podcast, she engages with industry leaders and offers essential insights for stakeholders navigating the evolving landscape of today’s fresh produce industry.

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This 10-year collaboration seeks to leverage TELUS’ agricultural database and analytics to digitize compliance and traceability.
Abhay Thosar, chief horticultural specialist at Sollum Technologies, shares the tremendous improvements the controlled environment agriculture industry has made with its lighting in the past decade or so.
Produce industry veteran Ed Beckman joins the FreshXperts team to help lead the relaunch with its founder, Anthony Totta.
Nathan Boyd, a professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, shares how the technology can help growers in many ways.
With time continuing to be a premium for consumers, garlic marketers say they see rising interest in garlic convenience products as well as organics.
Jennie Coleman, president of Equifruit and Chief Banana Badass, shares the challenges to enacting meaningful change, the importance of sustainability to the future of the industry and more.
Vision-based autonomous software company has acquired Farm-ng, a developer of modular electronic robots to bring a unified platform and drive the future of AI and ag robotics.
This new distribution agreement will expand M2i’s pheromone gel technology to the U.S. and Latin American markets with future releases.
Apple marketers say this early-season variety is prime to take center stage during back-to-school and fall apple promotions.
While the Trump administration calls the end of the U.S.-Mexico Tomato Suspension Agreement a move to protect American agriculture, NatureSweet’s CEO warns it will have significant consequences.