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Apple Acres LLC, Lafayette, N.Y., has opened a 60,000-square-foot packing facility, in time for the new apple crop, with harvest starting this month.

Bosch is selling its Waiblingen, Germany-based packaging machinery business, which includes equipment used to package fresh produce, to Luxemburg-based CVC Capital Partners.

Industry veteran Steve Lutz plans to leave the Produce Marketing Association Aug. 2 to start his own marketing and communications company.

Monterey Mushrooms, Watsonville, Calif., has hired Ryan Meyer as sales finance manager.

The following article from The Packer’s “A Century of Produce,” was published in 1993. Robert Kasmire writes of the positive impacts made in the produce industry from the development of temperature control.

The Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, Maitland, is designating July 12 as #FairTradeForFarmers Day, asking for the public’s help to resist the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on three businesses for violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

As the high-stakes Department of Commerce dumping investigation continues on U.S. imports of Mexican tomatoes, advocates for both U.S. and Mexican tomato growers are making their cases in the court of public opinion.

The United Fresh Produce Association has promoted Amanda Griffin to vice president of education and program management.

My grandpa’s stories never grow old, but sometimes I suspect they might have grown taller over the years.