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Packaged salad brand Fresh Express is leaning into digital promotions and contests this May for National Salad Month, offering more than $25,000 in prizes.

The Garden State, which grows more than 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables on about 70,000 acres, had a mild winter and spring.

Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre April 26-27, the 2023 Canadian Produce Marketing Association Convention and Trade Show drew players from across the fresh produce supply chain.

With a berry boom continuing in May after starting in April, Watsonville, Calif.-based Well-Pict will showcase its premium, proprietary conventional and organic strawberries and conventional raspberries.

The International Fresh Produce Association coordinated a School Foodservice Partner X-Change to connect produce companies with leading school menu planners.

A delegation of Chilean representatives recently visited Immokalee, Fla., to meet with growers, buyers, farmworkers and U.S. government officials to discuss the possible expansion of the Fair Food Program in Chile.

Two produce firms were awarded federal fruit and vegetable supply contracts in early May.

Ben Wilson, Ocean Mist Farms artichoke commodity manager, said the company is seeing outstanding-quality artichokes, focused primarily on large sizes.

Carrier Transicold spotlighted an expanded portfolio of eCool transport refrigeration products at the May 1-4 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in California.

The transaction increases BelleHarvest’s overall growing and storage capacity by 20%, according to the company.