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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
Sweet potatoes, new FFVs, Indiana’'s ehanol output, and a new bioeconomy institute
This restaurant has lettuce growing on the walls.
Retail avocado prices dropped 9.3% while total dollars increased by 11.2% for the four weeks ending Dec. 3, according to the latest retail scan data.
Salinas, Calif.-based PlantTape is hosting an open house April 10 in Five Points, Calif., to talk with tomato growers about its automated transplanting system.
Tanimura & Antle is promoting its Artisan sweet Italian red onions during peak season with a retail display contest running from mid-May through early July.
(UPDATED, April 9) Effective May 7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow imports of Chilean fresh lemons without methyl bromide fumigation for pests.
The San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market is rebranding with a new, shorter name — The SF Market — and a new look to highlight the market’s role in the Bay Area’s food economy.
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.