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Florida growers are struggling against imported produce from Mexico, according to Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association testimony to the International Trade Commission.
Global seed company Hazera has introduced Stacy, a new bite-sized mini plum tomato variety.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Chiquita Brands International is making progress on its goal for zero fruit waste by 2020.
Edinburg, Texas-based Frontera Produce Ltd., is offering calabaza/gray squash for the first time, said Trevor Stuart, account manager.
What’s in store for holiday produce shoppers this season? Traditional favorites like sweet potatoes and green beans of course, but fresh, ripe strawberries have become a year-round staple, too.
AgroAmerica, a Central and South American grower and exporter of bananas and pineapples, has donated $50,000 to conservation efforts of a tropical forest known as the Maya Biosphere Reserve.
Fresh pears grown in Oregon and Washington will be subject to a small increase in marketing order assessments for the 2018-19 season.
Porterville, Calif.-based Homegrown Organic Farms plans to unveil a new citrus line in November, said Stephen Paul, category director for stone fruit, fall fruit and blueberries.
Premium apple varieties are taking a bigger bite of total apple sales, and Vancouver, British Columbia based The Oppenheimer Group is helping to keep the pipeline full of those desired apples.
Fyffes is offering year-round assistance to its workers in melon fields in Honduras and Guatemala.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Shannon Allen never imagined she’d start the country’s first 100% certified organic fast food restaurant with a drive-thru.
Florida legislators have gathered bipartisan support from dozens of House and Senate colleagues in a push to terminate the suspension agreement between the Department of Commerce and Mexican tomato growers.
SunFed, Rio Rico, Ariz., will be shipping red and gold Texas beets in early February, followed by the aptly-named Candy Stripe red and white beets a few weeks later.
Matt Mastronardi, executive vice president of Leamington, Ontario-based Pure Flavor, said the company has seen continued growth in snacking products.
A new packaging innovation for NatureFresh is a compostable fiber tray for its 6-count mini cucumber trays, said Ray Wowryk, business development director for the Leamington, Ontario, company.
Harold Paivarinta, senior director sales and business development for Red Sun Farms, Kingsville, Ontario, said the company “hit a home run” in the fall of 2018 with the launch of the company’s Sweetpops.
A fog envelops visitors who step into one of the 30-plus growing rooms for exotics at Phillips Mushroom Farms in Kennett Square, Pa.
Citrus industry warrior Joel Nelsen will work through the end of 2019, helping Exeter, Calif.-based California Citrus Mutual usher in a new era of leadership under Casey Creamer.
A partnership between Kingsville, Ontario-based DelFrescoPure and CubicFarms will result in an indoor automated vertical growing machine that continuously produces living lettuce, living basil and microgreens.
The likelihood of a whole lettuce purchase fell six percentage points from Fresh Trends 2017.
From its annual conference hosted in Austin, Texas, Produce Alliance announced Joe Collier’s retirement and Melissa Ackerman’s transition to president of the Chicago-based produce management company.
The U.S. tomato trade in 2018 leaned heavily toward imports over exports by a ratio of 20 to 1, the latest trade statistics show.
Rhode Island government and community leaders joined Viraj Puri, co-founder and CEO of Gotham Greens, Brooklyn, N.Y., in announcing the company’s first urban greenhouse farm in New England.
Judging from numbers from Nielsen Co. LLC, consumers in the western part of the U.S. are particularly fond of California avocados.
Bakersfield, Calif.-based Grimmway Farms is set to begin a year-long celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Ending a long-standing tomato suspension agreement could harm consumers in the U.S. and encourage retaliation by Mexico, one advocate for the deal says.
One Banana has implemented measures to increase water efficiency on their plantations.
Fresh greens from Bowery Farming, New York, N.Y., are now available throughout the greater New York area from Peapod and will be offered on AmazonFresh in mid-April.
U.S. apple exports topped $1 billion in 2018, 4% higher than 2017 and more than five times the value of U.S. apple imports.
The South Carolina Department of Agriculture is the featured guest at the next dinner meeting organized by the Eastern Produce Council.