The Packer
Danone is considering a sale of Earthbound Farm, the organic produce processor and distributor it acquired in 2016.
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.
On July 1, U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias Checkpoint in Texas arrested two U.S. citizens attempting to smuggle 12 undocumented immigrants in a tractor-trailer load of onions.
Local, state and federal agricultural entities have lifted a Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine in northern Los Angeles County.
Ocean Mist is expanding its organic acreage, and has hired Dan Solomon as organic production manager.
Color, price and visibility will sell plenty of table grapes at retail, California growers and shippers say.
My wife and I were visiting with another couple this week over dinner, and the hot topic was their first kiss.
Even as harvest accelerated, New York apple industry leaders rose early Sept. 5 to fly to Washington D.C. to lobby on critical trade issues.
Three months after the USDA pulled the plug on a plan to establish a national organic promotion and research program funded by grower assessments, the Organic Trade Association is resurrecting the plan.
As we look back on the one-year anniversary of the Amazon-Whole Foods merger, we reflect upon how the grocery industry was changed forever.
The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation has helped establish corrugated packaging design labs at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., and Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
Some people interpret the limited adoption of online grocery ordering as a sign that most shoppers simply are not interested in pickup or delivery and probably won’t be in the future either.
Peru’s onion season is off to a slow start, but quality is good and production is expected to increase over last season.
The 2018 edition of Interpoma, a biennial event geared to the apple production sector, is set for Nov. 15-17 in Bolzano, Italy.
Skies were sunny and blue on Sept. 11 in Chadbourn, N.C., but Hurricane Florence was bound to change that reality by Sept. 12 or Sept. 13.
Are fresh fruits and vegetables getting their “fair share”?
Catch up with what’s been happening at produce companies in and around Philadelphia.
As U.S. sweet potato exports increase, The American Sweet Potato Marketing Institute is using special events, promotional activities and social media to tout the benefits of sweet potatoes worldwide.
Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., is hosting its 20th Avocado Grower Seminar series to address integrated pest management (IPM) and biological control agents.
The Michigan Apple Committee has created a retail dietitians’ kit to reach out to nutrition-minded consumers and is bringing back strategic partnerships to spread the word about Michigan apples.
Portland, Ore.-based USA pears kicked off the start of the 2018 harvest season with actress Amy Smart’s new role as official spokesperson for the group.
The fifth Tour de Fresh has raised $147,000, which will pay for at least 46 salad bars in schools.
Stop the presses. InsideHigherEd.com reports “Most Students Don’t Eat Enough Fruits, Vegetables” in a story on recent research from the American College Health Association.
The Packer is seeking nominations for the 2018 Produce Marketer of the Year.
The storm clouds have fled and sunshine has returned, but it will take North Carolina sweet potato growers several days to assess damage from Hurricane Florence.
Montreal-based fresh produce distributor Courchesne Larose is planning 100 days of activities to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
Bakersfield, Calif.–based Sun World International has moved its grape packing operations in-house.
North Carolina sweet potato growers are scrambling to harvest as much of their crop as possible before Hurricane Florence makes landfall.
