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Earl’s Organic Produce, San Francisco, has hired Kevin Cook as director of human resources.

Mayda Sotomayor is The Packer’s 2018 Produce Woman of the Year.

The Organic Trade Association has hired Johanna Mirenda as farm policy director.

CHICAGO — The produce industry needs to play catch up with innovation and advancing technology, David Krause believes.

SALINAS, Calif. — Ag tech startups and other businesses looking to set up shop in Salinas, Calif., will have more options after the completion of a project announced June 27 at the Forbes AgTech Summit.

Food safety technology company Certus has introduced a rapid response in-house pathogen testing system.

California’s 2017 almond acreage is estimated at 1.33 million acres, up 7% from the 2016 acreage of 1.24 million acres.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has updated a recall of microgreens products from Greenbelt Greenhouse with new “best before” dates that suggest consumers might still have the products in their refrigerators.

Health officials have linked a death in California to an E. coli outbreak from romaine lettuce grown in Arizona, and the numbers of sick people continues to increase.

The high-tech ag revolution on produce farms is on the menu at a luncheon sponsored by Western Growers and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.