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Expansion across the Delaware River into New Jersey is one way that Toughkenamon, Pa.-based Manfredi Cold Storage is looking to accommodate future growth in imported fresh produce.

Fair Oaks Farms, a progressive dairy, pork and crop farm in northwest Indiana, was recently the subject of some less than savory media attention.

The American Mushroom Institute has hired Rachel Roberts as executive director.

Farmer support for President Donald Trump is holding steady to nudging slightly higher than it was a month ago, according to the latest Farm Journal Pulse.

As consolidation in the U.S. cold storage industry continues, the amount of space available for the fresh produce supply chain and other refrigerated goods continues to grow.

Retailers want more fair trade products, and fresh fruit and vegetable companies have responded.

For four weeks this summer, Chiquita stickers will be co-branded with a Shazam code that shoppers can scan to see videos of how bananas move through the supply chain from Latin American farms to U.S. grocery stores.

When the Global Cold Chain Alliance’s Global Cold Chain Expo debuted in Chicago in 2016, the association set out to highlight the expertise and knowledge its members have to a larger audience.

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

Despite globalization of e-commerce, many shipping lines still rely on the "paper trail" to track cargoes.

The Agriculture Department has begun talking with grocery retailers about their potential role in a proposal to replace some food-stamp allocations with prepackaged boxes of groceries.

Dubbing it a “Blue Apron-type” program, the White House wants to shift some Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dollars from purchases at retail stores to boxes of non-perishables shipped to homes.

The National Restaurant Association reports that vegetables remain trendy, particularly for their capacity to replace other food items.

As California citrus growers work feverishly to stave off a future invasion of citrus tree-killing huanglongbing, Texas growers are dealing with the disease in the present.

The Sustainable Agriculture Summit will bring more than 500 people from across the food supply chain for ongoing conversations about achieving and scaling sustainable production practices.

California’s citrus industry is about to step up the fight against its major threat: huanglongbing, also known as citrus greening disease.