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The Idaho Potato Commission, Eagle, has three new commissioners.

U.S. importers of European citrus will soon have to pay an additional 25% tariff after the World Trade Organization sided with the U.S. in its dispute with the European Union over illegal subsidies to Airbus.

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.

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.

The Mart Group LLC, which consists of four Idaho potato grower-shippers, has entered into a joint venture with onion grower ProSource Inc.

Born and raised on a potato farm in eastern Idaho, Britt Raybould is still close to her potato roots today.

Potato grower-shipper Sun-Glo of Idaho, Sugar City, has added Tron Crumley to its sales staff.

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. 

LGS Specialty Sales, New Rochelle, N.Y., is expanding its Spanish fruit imports with lemons, clementines and Vanilla Persimmons, also known as rojo brillante.

NEW YORK — Mayda Sotomayor-Kirk was a baby when her family escaped the Castro communist regime on a freedom flight to the U.S.

Alan Kahn is the new vice president of foodservice for the Idaho Potato Commission, Boise.

Rigby Produce has posted a $100,000 surety bond to hire an individual who was previously subject to disciplinary action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

Greenhouse vegetables are an integral part of produce department sales and give consumers ever-expanding options in variety and packaging choices.

Greenhouse acreage is expanding in Canada’s Ontario province, but not all the expansion is targeted for fresh produce.

With a fleet of about 200 trucks and about 300 trailers, Twin Falls, Idaho,-based Giltner Inc., is an asset-based shipper with heavy business in the fresh produce sector.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on four produce firms for failing to pay reparation awards issued under the PACA, including one for more than $1.3 million.

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.