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Naturipe Farms, Salinas, Calif., has promoted Jim Roberts to president of sales, a new position at the company.
Erin Dickson has joined Ten Acre Marketing, Grand Forks, N.D., as senior vice president of strategy.
Doug Bulgrin, the onion packing shed manager for Gumz Farms, Endeavor, Wis., is the new president of the National Onion Association.
California Giant Berry Farms, Watsonville, Calif., has named Joe Barsi president of the company.
Five Crowns Marketing, Brawley, Calif., is expanding berry and asparagus volumes, and is adding industry veterans and facilities to support the increase.
Felix Martinez Lopez is the new director of Agro Produce Puerto Rico Inc., San Juan.
Josh Bergling has been promoted to vice president of technology at Choptank Transport, Preston, Md.
Agt3 Holdings, a Laguna Niguel, Calif., indoor vertical growing technology company, has appointed former California Secretary of Agriculture A.G. Kawamura to its board.
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., Coral Gables, Fla., has promoted Hans Sauter at its first chief sustainability officer.
Associated Wholesale Grocers, Kansas City, Kan., has realigned its real estate department.
CORRECTED: Produce Alliance has promoted Stephanie Fyle to chief procurement officer.
Bob Von Rohr retired from his position as director of marketing and customer relations at Glassboro, N.J.-based Sunny Valley International, the culmination of more than 50 years in the produce industry.
Nick Mascari has left Applewood Fresh Growers LLC, Sparta, Mich., where he was president, to open a consulting company.
Kevin Murphy has joined the board of directors at Fall Creek Farm & Nursery Inc., Lowell, Ore.
Potandon Produce LLC, Idaho Falls, has hired John Palczynski as Midwest regional sales manager, a new position at the company.
Package Containers Inc., Canby, Ore., has hired Larry Grove as manufacturing operations manager.
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ (FDACS) are issuing a Certificate of Animal Movement to Mr. and Mrs. Claus of the North Pole.
Frieda Rapoport Caplan, founder of Frieda’s Specialty Produce, is memorialized in Inc. Magazine’s list of iconic entrepreneurs who died in 2020.
The Produce Marketing Association’s Richard Owen will be leaving his position at the end of January to become president and CEO of the American Peanut Council.
Cooler and freezer manufacturer Polar King International has hired Rachel Giese as a customer service agent.
The application period has opened for the Class 26 of the United Fresh Produce Industry Leadership Program.
Associations representing produce joined more than 100 other agriculture groups in urging leadership of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry to confirm Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary.
The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) is seeking nominees to fill Regional Member and Alternate positions.
The FPAA joined the Food & Agriculture Association’s letter addressed to the U.S. Senate supporting Secretary of Agriculture nominee Thomas Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative nominee Katherine Tai.
JOH, Billerica, Mass., has hired Andrew Moore as a home meal replacement specialist in the company’s fresh division.
Church Brothers Farms, Salinas, Calif., has hired Jennifer Wagner Sanchez as director of marketing.
Scott Harker has joined Verdant Technologies as vice president of sales.
Chris Alvarez has been promoted at Giro Pack Inc. to director of sales and customer service.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has appointed 31 potato industry representatives to serve on the National Potato Promotion Board.
Pinnacle Claims Management, part of the Western Growers Family of Companies, today announced the launch of rapid COVID-19 testing in Arizona and California.