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Though the H-2A guest worker program has helped soften the crisis, farm labor remains a top issues for Santa Maria growers.
The United Fresh Produce Association is honoring two industry members, one for advancing indoor growing technology and another for marketing/merchandising unique produce products.
The world’s largest retailer will now let shipments of food and other products arrive at regional distribution centers one day early, a reverse from Walmart’s previous stance.
Syngenta has acquired vegetable seed breeder, producer and marketer Feasterville, Pa.-based Abbott & Cobb, known for its sweet corn.
Ag tech companies can court possible investors at the AgTech Conference of the South.
Forbes has recognized ag tech startups Apeel Sciences, BrightFarms, FoodLogIQ, Plenty, Produce Pay, SWIIM, Soft Robotics, Trace Genomics and Understory as being among the most innovative in the field.
The CDC has added 41 cases to the multistate outbreak of cyclospora infections attributed to Del Monte vegetable trays, bringing the total number of cases to 185.
Earl’s Organic Produce, San Francisco, has hired Kevin Cook as director of human resources.
Salinas, Calif.-based D’Arrigo Bros. of California signed a new contract with the United Farm Workers union that will cover more than 1,500 farm workers, according to a news release.
Mastronardi Produce is opening a sixth greenhouse in the U.S., with a 20-acre facility in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
Produce industry organizations commended suppliers July 9 for coming together to protest the new 90-day payment policy Kroger intended to implement across its business.
Mayda Sotomayor is The Packer’s 2018 Produce Woman of the Year.
The Organic Trade Association has hired Johanna Mirenda as farm policy director.
CHICAGO — The produce industry needs to play catch up with innovation and advancing technology, David Krause believes.
SALINAS, Calif. — Ag tech startups and other businesses looking to set up shop in Salinas, Calif., will have more options after the completion of a project announced June 27 at the Forbes AgTech Summit.
Danone is considering a sale of Earthbound Farm, the organic produce processor and distributor it acquired in 2016.
Canadian retailer Loblaw Cos. Ltd. is signaling a huge commitment to local growers, pledging to spend $150 million more each year by 2025, buying local produce and curtailing imports when possible.
Food safety technology company Certus has introduced a rapid response in-house pathogen testing system.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has updated a recall of microgreens products from Greenbelt Greenhouse with new “best before” dates that suggest consumers might still have the products in their refrigerators.
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Fresh Del Monte Produce did roughly $1.11 billion in net sales in the first quarter, an increase of about 7% from the same period in 2017.
Health officials have linked a death in California to an E. coli outbreak from romaine lettuce grown in Arizona, and the numbers of sick people continues to increase.
Holt Logistics Corp. is conducting a pilot based on blockchain-based global trade solution developed by Maersk and IBM at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia.
Urban Picnik salad meals, now available at retailers in Quebec where the company is based, is branching out across Canada, with distribution to grocery and convenience stores – and an eye on U.S. expansion.
The high-tech ag revolution on produce farms is on the menu at a luncheon sponsored by Western Growers and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, citing lack of interest from growers, has put an end to a campaign for a national research and promotion program for organic produce and other products.
Naturipe Farms is seeing peak supplies of strawberries from California.
Alex Ott is leaving the California Apple Commission and other commodity boards to become the full-time executive director of the American Pecan Council.
Indoor farming company Fifth Season plans to open a 60,000-square-foot vertical farm in Braddock, Pa., a former steel town near Pittsburgh.
Curation Foods, Santa Maria, Calif., has introduced Yucatan Guacamole Squeeze, in a flexible squeeze pouch that has a one-way nozzle to keep air out and prolong freshness.
The Center for Produce Safety has chosen 11 new research projects to fund, granting $2.7 million to research including listeria’s tolerance to sanitizers and disinfecting packinghouse washwater.