The Packer
The California Table Grape Commission has a new health advertising campaign, telling consumers that eating “normal amounts” of grapes each day may help with long-term health.
Morning Kiss Organic is adding imported and domestic organic kiwifruit and pears to its offering, with year-round supplies of both items.
Retail promotions efforts by the Idaho Potato Commission are off and running with the start of harvest, and the pace won’t let up much through the first of next year.
Peter Leifermann remembers working in the foodservice sector in Atlanta in the 1990s when importers were flying in hass avocados from Chile and mangoes in South Florida were priced at $15 per carton.
Brighter Bites Executive Director Sam Newman is scheduled to be the Dallas Fresh Food Association’s next luncheon speaker.
Miami, Fla.-based Crystal Valley Foods has begun imports of blueberries for the 2018-19 season.
Hispanic households are buying avocados at a rate nearly 50% above non-Hispanic households.
60% of U.S. sweet potatoes are grown in Eastern North Carolina, but farmers there have seen yields decimated now by two hurricanes.
Sakata Seed America is raising awareness about the American Heart Association’s need for funds.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Pretty Lady grapes are available in new top-seal packaging options.
The Hass Avocado Board continues its education of food and nutrition professionals by exhibiting at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Food & Nutrition Conference and Expo.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Pulling in about 21,000 attendees from 60 countries, the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit in Orlando was another smashing success.
Call it the government’s version of “Shark Tank” for fruit and vegetable harvesting.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Briefing members of the media Oct. 20, Robert Schueller, director of public relations at Los Angeles, Calif.-based World Variety Produce, covered a wide range of specialty produce trends.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Hazel Technologies is continuing its work with tropical fruit, stone fruit and more than 30 types of fresh produce, says Patrick Flynn, co-founder of Chicago, Ill., -based Hazel Technologies Inc.
Kroger has named regional flavors, plant-based foods, eating styles, gut-healthy foods, and low sugar and natural sweeteners as the big trends for 2019.
With California’s citrus season in full swing, Bee Sweet Citrus, Fowler, Calif., is welcoming the return of satsuma mandarins.
California’s Citrus Research Board and the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources established a $1 million endowment focused on long-term sustainability of the state’s citrus industry.
iTradeNetwork has upgraded its flagship Order Management Suite to make it easier to comply with the Safe Food for Canadians Act.
Crop One Holdings, whose vertical farms company FreshBox Farms grows leafy greens, has added executives from The Giorgi Cos. Inc., parent of mushroom grower Giorgio Fresh, to its advisory board.
The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation has approved $1 million to expand corrugated packaging curriculum in the U.S.
Florida citrus growers are asking for approval to lower size and grade standards to sell more on the fresh market.
He may be president and CEO of a major table grape grower-shipper, but it’s not unusual to see Merrill Dibble walking the vineyards conversing with workers.
Arnott Duncan, CEO of Duncan Family Farms, Buckeye, Ariz., couldn’t be more proud of his employees.
The Packer’s Kate Walz visits with companies at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit Oct. 19-20 in Orlando, Fla.
Thanks to a record number of exhibitors on the Fresh Summit expo floor — more than 1,200 — food banks in Florida serving hurricane victims and others are receiving more than 250,000 pounds of fresh produce.
Customers of Natural Grocers raised $94,500 for Organic Farmers Association September.
Bob Stafford, manager of the Vidalia, Ga.-based Vidalia Onion Committee, says Vidalia sweet onions capture about 40% of the sweet onion category but the industry wants more.
With acreage expanding this year, the field-grown, proprietary-seed colored bell pepper branded Simply Sun is now grown year-round by L&M Farms, says Lee Anne Oxford, director of marketing for L&M Farms, Raleigh, N.C.