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Berry grower-marketer Wish Farms’ new headquarters in Plant City, Fla., won’t be your average office and warehouse/packing facility.
Wada Farms Marketing Group, Idaho Falls, Idaho, is bolstering its organic potato offerings through an exclusive partnership with Genesis Organics.
Environment-friendly recyclable packaging used by A&A Organic Farms, Watsonville, Calif., is getting recognition.
SweeTango apple growers are enlisting big names in promoting the apple this season, with Katie Couric and others using podcasts, YouTube, social media and other platforms to reach consumers.
Local food is maintaining its strong appeal in the Twin Cities, but tight and expensive labor make it a challenging business environment for growers.
California’s cherry season has been light on volume this year, but Stemilt Growers is encouraging retailers to take advantage of quality cherries over the next couple weeks.
Greenhouse grower-shipper Village Farms International is extending an exclusive growing partnership with a Mexican company, boosting supplies of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.
A survey of California dried plum (prune) growers puts the 2018 crop at 80,000 tons, down 24% from last season’s 105,000 tons.
U.S. senators from both parties from citrus-producing states are asking the Senate Agriculture Committee to include $125 million in the farm bill for citrus greening research.
The Hass Avocado Board continues to chart the success of the fruit with another positive quarter, in which Easter, Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day holidays saw growth in dollar sales and volume moved.
Vidalia onion grower Bland Farms, Glennville, Ga., is celebrating 70 years of farming.
Compac has a new laboratory designed to be deployed directly to fields and orchards, packed with the latest in analytical sensor technologies from parent company Tomra.
Western Growers is again seeking proposals from ag-tech startups who can compete for a minimum of $250,000 in investment capital through the 2018 AgSharks Competition.
California’s pomegranate crop is expected to be down again this year, but growers say ample promotable volume should be available.
Black Gold Farms has started harvesting red and yellow potatoes in the Red River Valley.
This is one Thanksgiving-themed meal that won’t have you making post-holiday diet plans.
The debate over weed killers containing glyphosate continues to be issue in Germany.
When the Food and Drug Administration tells a food company to issue a recall “or else,” a new document describes exactly what that means.
Hood River, Ore.-based Diamond Fruit Growers has unveiled a packing line specifically engineered for pears from Unitec.
Wawona Packing Co. LLC, Cutler, Calif., has acquired the stone fruit breeding assets of Burchell Nursery Inc., including more than 60 patented fruit trees and associated genetics.
Ireland-based Total Produce has been cleared by the European Commission for its plan to purchase a 45% stake in Dole Food Co.
Research at the University of Florida on citrus greening disease isn’t focused solely on helping trees fight the disease. Researchers also are attacking the source: the Asian citrus psyllid that spreads the disease.
Canadian greenhouse grower Del Fresco Produce is launching the second phase of its strawberry production, bumping acreage from six to a total of 17 acres.
Shelf-life enhancement company Hazel Technologies has a new partnership with AMR Agro, a Dominican Republic green-skin avocado packer-exporter.
Sakata Seed American, Morgan Hill, Calif., has sold its onion breeding program to Cape Town, South Africa-based Zaad Holdings Ltd.
JMT US and Macro Plastics are launching bin for fresh produce specifically engineered for controlled atmosphere environments to extend shelf life.
Mr. Box, Richgrove, Calif., is now the distributor for SmartPac, whose box liners are marketed to the grape industry to keep fruit fresh during shipping.
Mission Produce is asking consumers to go green on Black Friday.
Morgan Hill, Calif.-based Sakata Seed America has completed phase one completion of the Sakata Seed America Woodland Innovation Center.
Naturipe Farms is seeing peak supplies of organic cranberries from Wisconsin, a trend that will continue to the third week of December.