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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.
Growers Express, which sells cut vegetables under the Green Giant Fresh brand and has seen demand rise “significantly” over the past year for its Veggie Meal Bowls and its Fresh brand Little Gems lettuce hearts.
The 17th class of the Empire State Food and Agricultural Leadership Institute completed the Lead Fellows portion of the training program.
Fueled by strong sales from the company’s Mann Packing business, Coral Gables, Fla.-based Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. said net sales increased in the first quarter of 2019.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Michelle Ann Passaretti is the winner of the 2019 Viva Fresh Healthy Living Award.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Painful changes are coming soon in how Mexican tomatoes are sold to U.S. importers.
Any way you measure it, attendees and exhibitors said the April 25-27 2019 Viva Fresh show was a success.
Wenatchee, Wash.-based Stemilt Growers is helping retailers prepare for a long season of cherry sales.
Homestead, Fla.-based Brooks Tropicals LLC has added Javier Gonzalez Ebra as the firm’s sales manager and added industry veteran Emil Bravo as the company’s newest salesman.
HLB Specialties is looking forward to the start of the rambutan season, starting in Guatemala in May and continuing with Honduras through December.
Florida’s tropical fruit season is underway and marketers are expecting a strong bounce-back year.
J&C Tropicals-branded Dragon Fuel dragon fruit will be featured at retail stores all over the country.
Mexico’s supply of limes will start increasing around mid-May as the harvest transitions from the winter crop to the spring crop, said Michael Castagnetto, vice president of sourcing for Robinson Fresh.
Organic vegetables are hot commodities in supermarket produce departments, and celery, in particular, seems to be a current trendsetter.
From grapes to grapefruit, sales of organic fruit are on the rise, and suppliers anticipate ample volume of good-quality product for the late spring and summer months.
The Quebec Produce Marketing Association received a $400,000 grant from the Quebec government to launch the I Love Fruits and Veggies Movement.
Robert W. Coleman Elementary as part of its 2019 Apples4Ed program
Oakland, Calif.-based vertical farm operator Crop One Holdings won the Best Innovation in Indoor Farming Award at the 2019 Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
The U.S. Apple Association awarded a $4,000 Apples4Ed grant to help the Rensselaer City School District in New York create a healthy snacking program encouraging student participation in physical activity — basically an outdoor snack station in the middle of a running track.
Last week on Produce Market Guide searches for watermelon and orange content dominated demand.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking comments until July 1 on a pest risk analysis that could open the door for citrus imports from China.
Organic produce sales may be no longer be escalating at a double-digit rate, but retailers, foodservice operators and grower-shippers say movement continues to trend upward.
Aid for poultry, aquaculture producers also included