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COVID-19 has had a profound effect on the economy of Florida, nearly stopping tourism and related industry in its tracks since mid-March.

Suppliers say business is booming at Toronto’s Ontario Food Terminal, where dozens of produce companies provide customers with an extensive variety of fresh fruits, vegetables and other items.

There were fears last summer that a review conducted by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs might recommend a new location for the largest wholesale produce distribution center in Canada.

NEW YORK — The Bolthouse Farms gang is back together, and they’re pumping out new product lines that embody the new company mission: Plants powering people.

To help alleviate supermarket food shortages due to the new coronavirus COVID-19, Baldor Specialty Foods will make home deliveries available to people in a 50-mile radius of its Bronx, N.Y. headquarters.

Organic produce plays a role in the Chicago market, but that role may not be as pronounced as it is the West and the East.

Many Texas distributors say they’re in kind of an in-between mode — between the sales bump of the holidays and the next buildup that starts as spring nears, tourists arrive and conventions come to town.

The cold storage division has become the company’s biggest growth area at Brothers Produce Inc., Houston, said Brent Erenwert, CEO.

Hardie’s Fresh Foods puts more than a little emphasis on local produce, said Michelle Weech, vice president of marketing.

TMC Produce Solutions has opened a new office in Florida’s Miami/Pompano Beach area.