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Carbon Robotics unveiled its 2022 LaserWeeder implement, an autonomous, laserweeding pull-behind robot that seamlessly attaches to the back of tractors.
With Super Bowl promotions running hot, the avocado market was even hotter in early February.
Here are more images from The Packer’s Global Organic Produce Expo 2022 event in Hollywood, Fla., collected by Tom Karst, editor emeritus for The Packer.
Gabriel “Gabe” Gonzalez has joined Billerica, Mass.-based food broker JOH as an account manager.
Early bird registration for the 2022 CPMA Convention and Trade Show, which will take place April 5-7, 2022, at the Palais des congrès in Montreal, Quebec, is now open.
Church Brothers appointed Stacy Radich to chief financial officer. Radich has played an integral role over the last three years at Church Brothers.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Richter and Co. and Vidalia, Ga.-based Stanley Farms have partnered in a new Vidalia onion program.
Organic Trade Association applauds progress while urging expediency as government organization announces public listening session and request for comment.
The Alliance for Food and Farming has appointed industry professionals Kyla Oberman, Lauren M. Scott and Jim Morris to serve on AFF leadership positions.
SYRACUSE, Utah-based Onions 52, has reached an agreement with Deming, NM and Hatch, NM-based growers, Cody Shiflett Produce and Hatch Valley Produce, to market their full line of onions for the 2022 summer season.
Naturipe is excited to celebrate blueberries during the month of February. Their FeBLUEary campaign is now in its fifth consecutive year and highlights the first peak of imported blueberries for the 2022 season.
Getting the right quantity of bananas to consumers in a perfectly ripened condition is hard enough.
With a deadline to collect data by April 4, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is conducting the 2021 Organic Survey to gather new data on certified organic crops and livestock commodities in the U.S.
Avocados from Mexico and Mission Foods are inviting shoppers to celebrate basketball season with the “Taco Tip Off” campaign.
Bananas sourced in Mexico will feed consumer demand in both North America and Asia for Coliman, said Audee Rios Canobbio, director of corporate sales for the Jalisco, Mexico-based company.
Dole Food Co. is playing in the Marvel universe.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pat Kole is The Packer’s 2022 Potato Person for All Seasons.
The Coalition for Sustainable Organics, Western Growers, the International Fresh Produce Association and others have filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The San Francisco-based food technology company has completed the acquisition of foodservice provider Daylight Foods of Union City, Calif.
Wenatchee, Wash., based Stemilt Growers LLC., puts people first through their partnership with Washington, D.C., based Equitable Food Initiative (EFI).
To meet farmers’ demands for more sustainable and profitable growing practices, Verdant Robotics announced the expansion of its robot-as-a-service (RaaS) model to ensure access for more specialty crop farmers.
The Packer’s 2022 Fresh Trends report finds that 46% of shoppers say they seek out companies that are “environmentally aware.”
All parts of the supply chain should take steps to reduce food waste, and C.J. Pakeltis of solutions provider RizePoint has suggestions to get to that goal.
The next farm bill is coming into focus for the National Potato Council and other specialty crop groups.
U.S. fresh blueberry and raspberry per-capita availability at the retail level has more than doubled in the past decade, according to USDA data.
Import volume of U.S. conventional bananas declined 1% in 2021, while the volume of fresh organic banana imports rose 5%, according to the USDA.
Onion House, LLC is a grower-shipper, shipping mostly Mexican and Texas onions. The company has about 500 acres of onions in the Rio Grande Valley. The Texas onion season will begin a few weeks later than usual.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced that it anticipates zero water allocations this year from the Central Valley Project for California growers.
The future of the onion marketing order is our biggest concern right now. The season is upon us. The South Texas onion marketing order is supposed to start March 1.
The Bureau of Reclamation announced the initial Central Valley Project water allocation for 2022, which includes a 15% allocation for Friant Division Class 1 contractors. Hydrology for the 2022 water year is very dry.