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Northeastern growers and retailers are finding the late-season EverCrisp apple variety a benefit to their sales.
Five Crowns Marketing, Brawley, Calif., had been growing asparagus on 3,500 acres in the Imperial Valley.
Natural Delights Medjool dates brand has a new snack offering, Chopped Medjool dates.
Avocados From Mexico has become the official avocado of the Milwaukee Bucks.
U.S. fresh-market apple holdings on March 1 are down 10% compared with year-ago levels, according to the latest report from the U.S. Apple Association.
U.S. total imports of avocados were up 15% by volume but down 11% in value in 2018.
ORLANDO, Fla. — There’s never been a better time to highlight the inherent health benefits of fresh produce in marketing strategies: Food is medicine, and the science keeps backing it up.
Three companies teamed up to donate 500 Koru apples for a chef-tasting event that benefitted St. Joseph’s Center in Culver City, Calif.
Total U.S. tomato imports grew 9% in value and 4% in volume in 2018.
U.S. citrus output will decline over the next decade, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture projections.
U.S. orange and tangerine exports suffered a 2% decline in value and a 14% drop in volume in 2018.
While a chorus of business and industry leaders is fighting for Congressional approval of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, some sources believe the near-term outlook appears cloudy at best for the deal.
MAS Melons & Grapes LLC was in the middle of its Colima, Mexico, deal offering mini watermelons, seedless watermelons and honeydews in late February.
Vandervoet & Associates Inc., will have a slightly larger valencia orange deal out of Sonora, Mexico.
U.S. banana imports in 2018 declined moderately in volume but rose slightly in value.
California’s strawberry crop seemed to be gradually returning to normal volume this spring after a rainy winter that delayed picking early in the season.
The domestic blueberry season was kicking off in mid-April with harvesting already underway in Georgia, said Victoria De Bruin, marketing manager for the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council.
Recent Shelby Market data has revealed the top retailers by market share in each region of the United States.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has laid the groundwork imports of peppers from Colombia.
BRONX, N.Y. — Northeast Editor Amy Sowder recaps her latest visit to Hunts Point Produce Market to chat with Gabriela D’Arrigo of D’Arrigo New York.
Recent Shelby Report market data reveals the top retailers by market share in each region of the United States.
Dragon fruit demand has skyrocketed on Produce Market Guide last week.
Yes, there were long-term fallouts from a freeze and a hurricane. But equally weighing on the minds of Georgia’s fresh produce industry leaders were challenges unrelated to the weather.
Hardships born from a big freeze in 2016 have inspired Georgia’s blueberry industry to invest in some protective technology so growers don’t get frozen out of the market again.
China’s latest round of tariff retaliation hit frozen fruits and vegetables but appeared to spare additional hikes on imported U.S. fresh produce.
Discover a variety of peach information such as; consumer trends, retail availability and trending sales statistics.
Ricky Preiss and his family operate a peach orchard in the Texas Hill Country near Stonewall. With low rainfall, the harvest is smaller but sweeter this year.
Julie Barrett of Maple Lane Farm in Lyndeborough, N.H., talks about her apple orchard operations.
These good bugs partner with soybeans to increase nodulation and fix nitrogen.
After several years of strategy review and consultation, Zespri shareholders have voted to strengthen grower ownership and control of the company.