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Paramus, N.J.-based Classic Harvest has added Chris DeSana as senior director of sales for deciduous fruit.

The final 2019 shipments of Zespri’s New Zealand kiwifruit crop were heading to Asian markets in December, putting an exclamation point on a season that saw SunGold shipments exceed Zespri Green for the first time.

Retaliatory trade tariffs continue to hurt U.S. fruit exports.

Produce Lovers, a vertically-integrated grower that ships blueberries from the Mexican state of Jalisco, is shipping conventional and organic berries through mid-June.

Avocados are kind of a big deal. We all knew that, of course, but take a peek at the chart below and you will see it in visual terms.

The winter fruit season has barely begun and public unrest and a strike at Chilean ports is not holding back fruit exports so far, Chilean fruit export sources report.

Sun World International LLC, Palm Desert, Calif., has added a Chilean and two Peruvian grape companies to its licensees list.

With Food and Drug Administration inspections coming in 2020, a United Fresh Produce Association seminar set for Jan. 30-31 will help importers prepare for Foreign Supplier Verification Program compliance.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking comments until Jan. 13 on a pest risk assessment that should open the door for U.S. imports of South Korean (Republic of Korea) carrots.

Registrar Corp. has upgraded it FDA Compliance Monitor with risk evaluation tools.