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Atmospheric smoke has obscured grape-ripening sunlight while ash has coated green beans, cauliflower and other produce in nearby fields just days before scheduled harvesting.

California’s 2020 cantaloupe volume should be similar to last year’s 16 million 40-pound cartons, said JD Allen, manager of the Dinuba-based California Melon Research Board.

The Wonderful Co. has added two new flavors to its Wonderful Pistachios No Shells offerings, said Adam Cooper, senior vice president of marketing.

The final compliance deadline for mandated electronic logging devices in U.S. trucks will arrive Dec. 17.

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.

Mike Krage is the Idaho Potato Commission’s newest retail promotions director, covering the Northeast and Midwest.

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association expressed its approval for the federal government’s investments that benefit the fresh fruit and vegetable industry. 

The hot conditions that helped spark deadly wildfires in California are also taking a toll on the state’s citrus crop. The sweltering heat is causing lemons to ripen prematurely,

Although this season got off to a slower start than last year, Chile expects to ship a record 101,000 tons of mandarins to North America this year, a 32% increase from 2017.

California’s drought is worsening, and blazes have charred more acres in the first six months of this year than they did in the same period in 2017, a year that ultimately set records for destruction and deaths.

Catch up on companies that import and market easy peel citrus and more from Chile.

Chilean easy-peeler volume will almost double for Pacific Trellis Fruit in 2018, said Christopher DeSana, East Coast import manager and sales manager.

This will be the second season that Reedley, Calif.-based Dayka & Hackett will feature the Minion label for its Chilean easy peelers, said Tony Liberto, import citrus manager.

More summer Chilean clementine and mandarin volume is on tap for U.S. consumers this year.

Farmers are now feeling a new squeeze -- borrowing money is getting more expensive as interest rates rise. For some, it may be fatal.

August Battaglia, doing business as QMP Sales, has satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

(UPDATED, Nov. 9) With the next round of NAFTA negotiations set to start in Mexico City Nov. 17, House Agriculture leaders convened a discussion that stressed the importance of the trade agreement to farmers.

(UPDATED, Oct. 26) In a close vote, the House Judiciary Committee passed an amended Agricultural Guestworker Act Oct. 25.

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