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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Schiller Park, Ill.-based Sun Belle is promoting organic and biodynamic cranberries and blueberries this fall, along with a wide variety of other berry offerings.

Ocean Spray cranberries will have new packaging this season, with berries shipping around the last week of September.

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

After more than 35 years in the produce industry, Terry Humfeld, the Cranberry Institute’s executive director based in Avondale, Pa., is retiring at the end of 2019.

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

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.

Finally approving a Cranberry Marketing Committee recommendation made more than a year ago, the USDA has issued a rule that will limit what growers can sell in 2018-19 in an effort to prop up prices.

With harvest starting later this month, cranberry growers are still waiting on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to decide on a proposal to cut the allowable amount of fruit marketed in the 2018-19 season by about 25%.

The Corteva Agriscience unit is reviewing its portfolio of seeds and pesticides. The company may sell some “tangential” crop seeds to focus on core products.

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 American cranberry industry is one of the biggest losers so far in the escalating trade dispute between the European Union and the U.S.

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.

Led by Costa Rica, pineapple supply in the first half of 2018 is expected to be plentiful, industry leaders said in late January.

Ocean Spray is buying Atoka Cranberries Inc., a Canadian fresh and processed cranberry products shipper.

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

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.

Although the first official U.S. fall potato production estimate won’t be released until Nov. 9, early signs point to flat to lower total output this year.