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Bakersfield, Calif.-based Sun World International has added to its operations department, according to marketing specialist Danielle Loustalot.

Frank & Able is the new tomato-on-the-vine label from the Vancouver, British Columbia-based Oppenheimer Group.

At Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte, N.C., three culinary instructors won a 2019 Idaho Potato Commission Leadership Innovation Award for Excellence in Foodservice Education.

Delta, B.C.-based Village Farms raised more than $10,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society with the Run for the Cure event.

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

The Georgia Grown program is partnering with Publix Super Markets on the launch of a local campaign.

Yes, there were long-term fallouts from a freeze and a hurricane. But equally weighing on the minds of Georgia’s fresh produce industry leaders were challenges unrelated to the weather.

Hardships born from a big freeze in 2016 have inspired Georgia’s blueberry industry to invest in some protective technology so growers don’t get frozen out of the market again.

Catch up on late season developments with a bunch of berry companies from around North America.

Fast-moving Hurricane Michael did substantial damage to Georgia vegetable fall crops, but it is too soon to say how much was lost.