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Jill Dutton

Jill Dutton, associate editor of The Packer, specializes in retail produce news, market trends and urban farming initiatives. With expertise in the rapidly evolving e-grocery landscape, she provides analysis on how digital platforms are reshaping food distribution. Jill is a prominent voice on sustainability and consumer trends, offering actionable insights that help businesses navigate shifting market demands. Her work explores the full produce journey — from farm to retail — featuring grower profiles, supply chain insights and emerging production models that shape American food systems.

Latest Stories
The U.S. Food Waste Pact is uniting growers, retailers and supply-chain partners through data-driven collaboration to reduce on-farm losses and retail shrink — exemplified by the strawberry whole-chain pilot that turned unharvested, out-of-spec fruit into profitable new markets.
Melissa’s Produce is bringing single-origin coffee beans to the produce aisle.
The company says the protein-based biofungicide offers a new, sustainable solution for protecting high-value fruits and vegetables from diseases like botrytis and powdery mildew.
The collaboration aims to enhance access to hands-on STEM learning, sustainability education and next-generation career pathways for millions of students.
Together, the three organizations say they are advancing a cutting-edge approach to breeding and growing high-quality strawberries indoors.
The browsers are emerging as a new kind of digital customer, and grocery retailers must enrich and structure product data so AI agents can understand, recommend and seamlessly add their produce items to shoppers’ carts.
Farmers cite tariffs of 10% to 50% on imported inputs as driving up production costs for fresh produce, grains and meats, raising Thanksgiving food prices while squeezing farms, food suppliers and families.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ $30-million citrus purchase to strengthen the U.S. supply chain draws approval from California Citrus Mutual CEO, Casey Creamer.
John Furner is set to become president and CEO in February 2026 as the company says it continues its people- and tech-driven transformation.
The collaboration adds digital ordering and delivery features to National Retail Solutions convenience stores, bodegas and independent shops across the U.S.