Finally approving a Cranberry Marketing Committee recommendation made more than a year ago, the USDA has issued a rule that will limit what growers can sell in 2018-19 in an effort to prop up prices.
The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and Southeast AgNet are partnering to provide the latest news on citrus-related research in a monthly podcast.
Watsonville, Calif.-based Monterey Mushrooms has recently presented 127 children of its employees with $235,000 in scholarship awards for the 2018-19 academic year.
While gala and Honeycrisp are two of the most familiar apple varieties grown in Michigan, growers have at least a few others they like, many of which may be on their way to becoming consumer favorites.
Organic table grapes make up another category that is growing at a rapid pace, said Stephen Paul, category director for Homegrown Organic Farms, Porterville, Calif.
Read a few quick updates from companies that manufacture packaging for the produce industry, as well as from a couple grower-shippers with packaging news.
