The Packer
Naturipe Farms is seeing peak supplies of strawberries from California.
Just as immigration reform continues to elude lawmakers in Washington, D.C., a stable workforce continues to elude grower-shippers in California’s Salinas Valley.
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.
Banana supplies should be steady, and sales look favorable for the next several months, grower-shippers say.
The Port of Oakland is celebrating a construction project on a new logistics facility that’s designed to reduce truck travel times and cost.
Canadian Fruit & Produce Co Inc. and Fresh Advancements Inc., have been Endorsed. Arizona Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, Defense Commissary Agency, and Honeycrisp Inc., are new to the Market & company updates.
The Produce for Better Health Foundation is bringing more than 20 retail dietitians to its 2019 Education2Action Retail Dietitian Event at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.
Zespri is highlighting the new SunGold kiwifruit clamshell at its Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit booth, and offering Kiwiritas and a chance to play S’KIWI ball.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has stepped forward to fight the spread of Tropical Race 4 (TR4) strain of fusarium wilt in Latin American and Caribbean banana-growing regions.
A company that makes mesh using resins from sugarcane is promoting its use as a sustainable option for produce packaging.
The growers of Sunions tearless onions have quadrupled production this season.
Pamela Northam, wife of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, and Bettina Ring, Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, celebrated National Apple Month and the peak of the state’s apple harvest season.
Walmart has committed $4 million to help fight food insecurity in Texas, and nearly $1.3 million will go to fresh produce-focused nonprofit Brighter Bites.
James Griffin, chief operating officer and chief technology officer at Fleet Advantage, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been recognized by a Florida business publication.
iTradeNetwork, which recently announced plans to offer its services free to select growers and shippers to advance traceability efforts in the industry, has scheduled a web seminar to discuss its plans.
Philadelphia-based AgroFresh Solutions’ FreshCloud Predictive Screening system has added capabilities to help Honeycrisp apple growers.
Clear Labs’ Clear Safety platform has received Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) Performance Tested Methods certification for genus listeria and Listeria monocytogenes testing.
The Food and Drug Administration has released an updated version of the Food Defense Plan Builder.
The Center for Produce Safety will embark on another campaign in the next year to raise funds for the group’s food safety research efforts.
We all know there is no food safety “kill step” for fresh produce consumed in a raw state.
The Organic Farming Research Foundation and the Organic Seed Alliance have been given a $500,000 grant through the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Organic Research and Extension Initiative.
London Fruit Inc., Pharr, Texas, has hired Amanda Horney as a sales representative in the Midwest.
The following two charts tell the relative stories of U.S. fruit and vegetables exports and imports.
Produce wholesalers at the Raleigh (N.C.) State Farmers Market may be booted from their space when a master plan for redesigning the property and surrounding land comes to fruition.
First Wave Sales LLC has been Endorsed. Cash-Wa Distributing of Fargo, Laut Farms LLC, Michael J Wilkerson, Seasons Finest Produce LLC, and TMC Wholesale Inc. are new companies to the Market, plus company updates.
iTradeNetwork, which recently announced plans to offer its services free to select growers and shippers to advance traceability efforts in the industry, has scheduled a web seminar to discuss its plans.
Monterey Mushrooms plans to feature its vitamin D mushroom line at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit in Anaheim, Calif.