The Packer
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.
California’s 2017 almond acreage is estimated at 1.33 million acres, up 7% from the 2016 acreage of 1.24 million acres.
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.
America’s love of the pistachio will be mostly spared from any fresh sanctions against Iran, a major world producer of the nut.
Sure, Windsor Castle in England is a nice spot for a royal wedding, but the California Avocado Commission has a better idea.
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.
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.