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The Fresno, Calif.-based California Table Grape Commission has hired Jodi Devaurs as director of trade policy.

Paramus, N.J.-based Classic Harvest has added Chris DeSana as senior director of sales for deciduous fruit.

Sun World International LLC, Palm Desert, Calif., has added a Chilean and two Peruvian grape companies to its licensees list.

Crystal Valley Foods, Miami, is finalizing the purchase of Asian, tropical and specialty fruit and vegetable importer Joco Produce, Medley, Fla.

Going against a recommendation from the California desert grape growers,  the USDA has withdrawn a proposal to remove varietal exemptions from the desert grape marketing order.

Bakersfield, Calif.-based Anthony Vineyards will feature big organic grape volume this fall.

The fall is a season of strength for California grape marketers.

Setton Farms and HMC Farms won kudos from a judge's panel of retail buyers at the California Food Expo.

Compared to all other parts of the years, the fall selling season used to be an afterthought to produce merchandiser and retailers.

Onion growers and shippers in the Idaho-Eastern Oregon District, like colleagues elsewhere, say they are finding practical use for multiple options in packaging that didn’t exist in years past.

Reedley, Calif.-based Dayka & Hackett is releasing a newly designed Eco-Tote for table grapes.

Georgia peach grower Robert Dickey III and Florida vegetable grower Charles Obern have been named 2019 Farmers of the Year by Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo.

John G. Giumarra Jr., whose legal expertise helped guide not only the family business, but aided in greater grape exports for the overall California grape industry, has died.

Pouch bags have become the No. 1 choice for packing table grapes, but most California grower-shippers say they also pack a certain amount of clamshell containers.

Consumers love organic grapes.

This could be a year like no other for California’s table grape industry.

Arkansas apple acreage has declined but acreage for the state’s grapes and pecans has risen in the past five years.

With the start of summer, white-flesh Angelcots are available from Frieda’s Inc., Los Alamitos, Calif.

Sun World International LLC, Bakersfield, Calif., is selling its leased and owned farms to investors that have contracted with Sun Pacific, marketer of Cuties mandarins, to farm the table grape vineyards.

Sophia Hronis, who founded Hronis Inc. with her late husband Jim Hronis, has died.