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Business updates from companies featured in The Packer’s Summer Berries section.
For the first time, retailers saw growth this season in single rather than double digits in the easy-peeler category, so the commodity could be stabilizing.
Business updates on companies featured in The Packer’s Summer Citrus section
Wentachee, Wash.-based Stemilt Growers has introduced the 5 River Islands brand of California cherries.
California spring vegetables are seeing increasing competition from Mexican imports.
Spring is an active marketing season for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and department officials say there are more items than ever to promote.
Frank & Able is the new tomato-on-the-vine label from the Vancouver, British Columbia-based Oppenheimer Group.
Catch up on produce companies involved in Florida’s spring fruit and vegetable deals.
With California avocado volume rising seasonally, the Irvine, Calif.-based California Avocado Commission is releasing fresh advertising to support the crop.
The onset of federally mandated electronic logging devices this year is driving freight rates higher and could push drivers out of the business, but it could actually help Vidalia onion sales, some grower-shippers say.
Sweet onions come in a variety of colors from a range of growing districts, but none approach the Vidalia product, growers and marketers from the Vidalia district say.
Tabletop strawberry production under high tunnels is being attempted on a limited scale in California’s Santa Maria growing district.
Growers in Kern County were finishing up a strong citrus season and starting with vegetable plantings as mid-April approached.
Summer Citrus from South Africa continues its successful consumer targeted promotions this season, while importers find their own marketing methods.
Mastronardi Produce, Kingsville, Ontario, which markets under the Sunset brand, has introduced 21 new recipes developed by celebrity chef Roger Mooking.
More summer Chilean clementine and mandarin volume is on tap for U.S. consumers this year.
Accounting for the rising popularity of fingerling potatoes and other niche varieties, size requirements for Idaho potato varieties would change under a proposal from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Ridge Spring, S.C.-based Titan Farms hired four people and promoted another ahead of the summer season.
Catch up on companies that import and market easy peel citrus and more from Chile.
It’s still relatively early in the season, but California strawberry volume seemed headed for its third record strawberry crop in a row as of early June.
This season Raleigh, N.C.-based L&M Cos. will market and sell for Deming, N.M.-based Billy the Kid Produce LLC.
Exports account for a significant amount of Northwest cherry volume.
The summer citrus deal has changed over the past decade, emphasizing trends the industry is seeing in domestic production.
With no severe frost or winter damage, growers of New Jersey blueberries expect a good crop for 2018, with harvest start dates lagging a little from a year ago.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Plentiful high-quality California grape supplies are expected into December, says Justin Parnagian, CEO for Fowler Packing, Fresno, Calif.
Retail promotions efforts by the Idaho Potato Commission are off and running with the start of harvest, and the pace won’t let up much through the first of next year.
ORLANDO, Fla. —— Unveiling the program at the Fresh Summit expo. NatureSweet Tomatoes, San Antonio, Texas, is promoting its employees to consumers in a program called “Associates Under the Label.”