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Rice Fruit Co. President Ben Rice earned top industry honors for securing state disaster aid, advocating for local orchards and strengthening regional storage capacity.
The funding addresses critical local needs as new data reveals nearly 1 in 5 children in Collier County lives in a food-insecure household.
NASDA and the National Agricultural Law Center say a new project tracking both Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 filings offers a more complete view of agricultural bankruptcies — with California, Arkansas, Georgia and Iowa leading the initial dataset.
While compostable packaging offers promising circular sustainability for produce, widespread adoption remains constrained by higher costs and performance trade-offs.
Advanced nutrient analysis is giving fresh produce growers the hard data they need to prove soil health directly translates to superior crop quality, opening the door for better margins at retail.
Federal trade officials set an initial duty on winter strawberries from Mexico following allegations that low-priced imports have damaged domestic producers.
Revised criteria and new action-plan tools go live ahead of a September dashboard reset for retail buyers.
As summer market volatility forces growers to adjust harvest schedules and field acreage, industry leaders call on retailers to help share food safety facts and restore stability ahead of winter planting.
The deal cements a major grocery expansion for C&S, transitioning leadership to Raymond Rhee while maintaining the supermarket chain’s operational presence in Jacksonville, Fla., through early 2027.
In an interview with The Packer, Tal Shoshan, founder and CEO of FiveStar Gourmet Foods, details how high-tech automation, enhanced food safety systems and long-term private independence are powering the company’s first-quarter 2027 Midwest expansion.
As regulatory deadlines and outbreak risks mount, Inteligistics’ new cold chain enterprise suite aims to transform traceability from a compliance headache into a business shield.
Following CEO Neal Carter’s recent buyback of Okanagan Specialty Fruits, the Arctic apple developer has bolstered its executive lineup with internal promotions and the appointment of an industry veteran as vice president of sales and marketing.
Growing vendor momentum underscores regional demand for live in-field specialty crop automation and drone demonstrations.
Cellar Insights expands its predictive data program to help growers spot spoilage early and protect crop value.
The Transfarmation Project has unveiled its second demonstration hub in Iowa, where the Faaborg family transformed a 30-year hog farming operation into a thriving specialty mushroom business.
Columnist Armand Lobato says he’s been known to test the knowledge of produce managers and clerks when the opportunity arises, and the answers are often quite revealing.
A new collaboration between Hortifrut, Naturipe Farms and Mountain Blue Orchards combines proprietary genetics to transform the global berry supply chain.
Micropep submitted U.S. and EU regulatory dossiers for its peptide biofungicide Promisin, giving produce growers a residue-free tool to combat fungal diseases in grapes and potatoes.
By pairing electrolyte access with shade and rest, the upgraded rules give agricultural workers critical defense against chronic heat-related health risks.
Available in mid-August, the launch brings premium conventional blueberries to market while strengthening year-round availability for the jumbo category.
New data show the cyclospora outbreak is driving a widespread pullback across the fresh produce aisle — even for non-recalled categories — triggering the sharpest single-month retail lettuce price drop in BLS history.
Several deadlines set by California’s SB 54 — the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act — have come and gone, but some producers impacted by the controversial legislation still question its feasibility.
By leveraging complete vertical integration from field-level technical innovation to store shelf, the company aims to transform dates from commodity to iconic health and wellness brand.
Leading Eastern shippers outline expectations for crop availability, merchandising tactics, and regional supply advantages this season.
Each agriculture revolution arrived faster than the last one; now here comes AI, and no technology in ag’s history has promised to rewire the economics of farming this fast.
Experts say two foodborne illness outbreaks linked to fresh produce have exposed a weakness at the heart of North America’s food system.
Early reports from the field point to strong quality across both onion and potato crops with harvest expected to continue through October, says the Idaho Falls, Idaho-based grower-shipper.
With 300 truckloads of vegetables crossing the border daily, the executive director for the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers,outlines why protecting stable access to U.S. consumers supports affordable, year-round produce for Canadians.
While viral memes mock male shoppers for baffling grocery substitutions, Instacart platform metrics and national consumer data from The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2026 demonstrate that men are becoming discerning, quality-focused power buyers.
What began as a kids’ wagon stand has grown into a 70-acre sweet corn operation selling 1,300 dozen ears a weekend, now Newhard Farms in Pennsylvania is using precision ag to farm smarter as Lehigh Valley farmland disappears.