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The Sunshine State accounted for about 56% of total domestic fresh round tomato truck shipments, according to the USDA’s annual shipment summary.

The Potato Leadership, Education and Advancement Foundation works to provide tools, training and support necessary to develop growers and industry members as leaders.

The state’s orange production was up 4% from the previous season, and grapefruit production increased 7%, the USDA reports.

Growers are pushing ahead on assessments and recovery from the storm’s “unfathomable” devastation.

The National Potato Council event will return to Orlando in January to help industry partners launch into the new year.

Financial Times reports say President-elect Donald Trump has asked Robert Lightizer to return as U.S. trade representative.

The new packaging will be available across all retail partners starting this fall.

Eric Hill, regional vice president and general manager of Graphic Packaging International, will succeed Don Carrell.

“From the Soil Up” spotlights the key role farmers play in healing the land and bringing communities together through regenerative agriculture.