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Jessup, Md.-based Pete Pappas & Sons has won a 2022 Sustainability Leadership Award from the Maryland Department of the Environment and Maryland Green Registry.

Results of The Packer’s 2022 Sustainability Insights Survey reveal that everyone has an important role to play in creating a more sustainable world.

Amado, Ariz.-based organic vegetable grower/shipper Wholesum published its annual Conscientious Company Report.

Borrowing $180 million, T&G Global has announced it has signed Aotearoa New Zealand’s first sustainability-linked loan in the horticulture sector.

Data collection, management, and validation will require third parties to be trusted liaisons between producers and buyers.

PALM DESERT, Calif. — There is no telling the future, but a group of industry panelists at The Packer’s West Coast Produce Expo considered ways of managing risk in the fresh produce business.

The first easy peelers from Peru and Uruguay have already arrived and volume will be picking up slowly in the coming weeks as Chile and South Africa enter the summer citrus season, according to a news release.

Fresh Del Monte reports it is making what it calls “remarkable progress” on the road to achieving key 2030 goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Produce typically is associated with sustainability — organic produce even more so. Grower-shippers agree that the biggest challenge to sustainability may be produce packaging.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding $197 million for 41 locally led conservation projects through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).