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Replicating its Salinas Valley program, the Grower Shipper Association of Central California has established a COVID-19 training prevention program in Yuma, Ariz.

For the quarter ending Oct. 31, lower avocado prices hurt overall sales and profits for Santa Paula, Calif.-based Calavo Growers Inc.

Late Thursday afternoon, Lori Kelley, received a phone call from AgroFresh Solutions, Inc.

A near-double digit gain in potato retail sales wasn’t enough to offset a decline in foodservice sales during the 2019-20 marketing year.

The first-ever digital Potato Expo is on tap for Jan. 5-7 and the event has plenty to offer the industry, National Potato Council leaders say.

A coalition of agricultural and business employers has filed a lawsuit challenging the COVID-19 related emergency temporary standards recently approved by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.

The U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru on Dec. 23 reported widespread protests of agricultural workers in multiple regions of the Andean country.

As we pointed out in previous blogs, there were some silver linings concerning produce safety and healthy eating in 2020.

Ten figures from United Fresh Produce Association’s Robert Guenther, senior vice president of public policy.

California’s 800,000 farmworkers have been hit hard by COVID-19, the disease that has infected more than 25 million people and killed more than 420,000 in the United States.