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Florida’s Indian River citrus region dodged major damage from Hurricane Dorian.

An abridged version of Florida’s 44th Tomato Conference, canceled due to Hurricane Dorian’s approach in the Atlantic, has been rescheduled for Oct. 2-3 in a new location.

This is one of the most fall activities you can do in the Northeast: Go apple picking, complete with hayrides and apple cider.

Skyline Potato Co. is upgrading equipment with new electronics and sewing heads to help meet customer demand.

Pamela Northam, wife of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, and Bettina Ring, Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, celebrated National Apple Month and the peak of the state’s apple harvest season.

Lyndonville, N.Y.-based United Apples Sales opened a West Coast division based in Yakima, Wash., and hired Frank Davis as vice president of national business development.

Matt Wells, director of field services of New York Apple Sales, Glenmont, N.Y., has been selected to participate in an intensive leadership development program for New York State’s food and agricultural industry.

With plenty of drama and plot twists, negotiations related to the tomato suspension agreement between Mexican growers and the Department of Commerce are continuing, according to an official with the U.S. agency.

Whatever your opinion on organics, there’s a market for it.

Mexican tomato growers have rejected the latest proposal from the Department of Commerce for a renewed tomato suspension agreement.