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Avocados continued to outperform average sales for other fruit and the produce category in general, according to the Hass Avocado Board’s latest data from research firm IRI scan data.

California Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross has penned a thank-you letter for retailers and food distributors across the country.

With foodservice sales continuing at a fraction of normal and grocery store foot traffic down compared with normal levels, produce distributors continue to seek ways to alleviate bottlenecks and waste in the supply chain

An April 22 web seminar hosted by The Packer and conducted by Category Partners will look at what is coming next for fresh produce at retail during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mike O’Brien, who joined Monterey Mushrooms 5 ½ years ago after more than four decades at retailer Schnuck Markets Inc., is retiring.

Grimmway Farms is preparing to ship new crop organic red and gold potatoes from its Cal-Organic Farms division from California.

Bountiful Blessings Community Services, Inc., Fortified Produce Brokers LLC, Jozour LLC, National Food Trading Corp., RS Produce LLC are new companies to the Market. Deardorff Orchards & others have updates.

Growers Express, which sold its fresh commodity vegetable and fresh value-added vegetable businesses to Church Brothers Farms, is moving from its longtime headquarters in Salinas, Calif., to offices in nearby Monterey.

TerraFresh Organics, Mill Valley, Calif., has hired Lorena Garcia as director of sales and business development.

After two years of late harvest starts, the California pear crop will be on a normal schedule, with harvest starting in early July.