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An oil painting of produce industry legend Frieda Rapoport Caplan will be displayed at the Ball Design booth the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit Oct. 19-20, in Orlando, Fla.

Bolzano, Italy is the site for Interpoma 2018, the international trade show dedicated entirely to the apple sector.

Research from /True Price/TruCost and Fairtrade found that the social and environmental costs of Fairtrade bananas are significantly less than other bananas.

Philadelphia-based AgroFresh says its RipeLock system is delivering big benefits to the banana supply chain.

Preliminary losses to Georgia’s fall vegetable crops from Hurricane Michael have been estimated at $230 to $300 million by agricultural specialists at the University of Georgia.

Yakima, Wash.-based Domex Superfresh Growers is increasing its harvest of Autumn Glory apples.

As the global produce community comes together in Orlando at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit, let me rank the top ten reports from the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service this year.

Researchers from Brazil, the U.S. and Germany have created a new crop from a wild plant within a single generation using CRISPR-Cas9, a modern genome editing process.

It has been a record-setting fall for the California table grape industry.

It was family day at the farm on Oct. 13 as the Eastern Produce Council hosted its fourth-annual Joe DeLorenzo Family Day and Apple Picking Event at Melick’s Family Farm, Oldwick, N.J.