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Kala’s insights have helped position agribusinesses for both survival and success – from agricultural lending, cash flow strategies and debt optimization to grain marketing, risk management and legacy building. As a senior ag consultant at KCoe, she is a proactive catalyst for agribusiness success – enabling their growth, optimization, and expansion. Email: Kala.Jenkins@kcoe.com

Maintaining consistency across growing regions can be challenging. Divine Flavor expects to move from strength to strength in regional quality. It also leans on its social programs to maintain consistent quality.

Wholesum is a third-generation organic, family farming operation. It grows and ships 100% organic, Fair Trade Certified fresh produce and grows in both the US and Mexico.

Sakata Seed America announced a new, permanent Lettuce Distribution Facility and appointed a new Lettuce Product Manager, all within the past few weeks.

Ryan Heiniger is Trust In Food’s director of America’s Conservation Ag Movement (ACAM), where he leads all aspects of its state and local projects. Prior to Trust In Food, Ryan served as the director of agriculture and director of field operations – north region for Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, two non-profit upland conservation organizations. He and his wife Nikki are raising their son and daughter as fifth-generation family farmers along the banks of the Mississippi River in southeast Iowa.

The U.S. FDA will not conduct a broad sampling of leafy greens grown in the Salinas Valley region of California for the 2022 growing season, according to a news release from Western Growers.

The pandemic is now old enough to talk, and it’s telling us things about our actions and choices that suggest an unfamiliar future.

Featuring the theme, “The Marvel of Produce,” the Southeast Produce Council recently wrapped its 2022 Southern Exposure tradeshow and conference.