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After tight supplies of elevated pricing for 2022 apple and potato crops, the 2023 season is bringing price relief and promotion opportunities to consumers.

How much is a good produce professional worth? Columnist Armand Lobato takes a look at how labor market conditions and employee intangibles factor into pay.

Ever-evolving, indoor agriculture made headlines throughout the year from bankruptcies to high-profile mergers and acquisitions to setbacks and triumphs.

Organic blueberry sales and volume were both up in 2022, according to retail numbers from Circana.

Data from Circana shows retail organic avocado sales topped $162.4 million in 2022, up 2.8% from 2021.

Following new findings, the state’s ag department and the USDA Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service have again added acreage to a quarantine to prevent the spread of the invasive insect.

If you’re buying Florida strawberries, chances are they’re one of three varieties developed by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ Gulf Coast Research and Education Center.

Peter Bretting, the USDA Agriculture Research Service’s national program leader for crop production and protection, shares what’s new about this updated plant hardiness map.

A contentious issue for decades, the terms of the U.S. tomato trade with Mexico again hung in the balance in 2023.