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Three months after the USDA pulled the plug on a plan to establish a national organic promotion and research program funded by grower assessments, the Organic Trade Association is resurrecting the plan.

Can a voluntary checkoff program work?

The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation has helped establish corrugated packaging design labs at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., and Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., is hosting its 20th Avocado Grower Seminar series to address integrated pest management (IPM) and biological control agents.

The fifth Tour de Fresh has raised $147,000, which will pay for at least 46 salad bars in schools.

Seeking to help U.S. exporters of fruit, nuts and other commodities hurt by retaliatory tariffs find new export markets, a new program is months away from distributing millions for the effort.

Seeking to grow demand in Europe, Colombia has tossed its hat in the ring of the World Avocado Organization.

Santa Paula, Calif.-based Limoneira said strong lemon and orange returns in the quarter ending July 31 were partly negated by lower avocado pricing.

A reworked North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico — or whatever name that President Trump wants to give the deal — is a positive sign for U.S. growers slammed by retaliatory tariffs.

A study commissioned by California’s Citrus Research Board has calculated the annual statewide costs for new regulations on growers to be $203 million statewide.