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It’s time to go back to basics, y’all.

Exports play a role in the marketing plans of many citrus grower-shippers, but that role can vary from company to company and season to season.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged produce grower-shippers throughout the U.S., but a silver lining for the citrus industry is consumers’ perception of citrus as immunity boosters.

The Blend, a mushroom promotion success, now goes to Food Network.

Comparisons with the pandemic year of 2020 are difficult to make, but most organic marketers see continuing momentum for organics in 2021 after COVID-19 set new records for retail sales.

Yuma, Ariz.-based Bard Valley Date Growers reports that the retail date category grew $6 million to $114.7 million in 2020.

The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rule on additional traceability requirements for certain foods is more complicated and expensive than it should be.

COVID-19 did nothing to subtract from banana demand, industry leaders say. In fact, the pandemic may have helped boost demand.

Working with two cooperatives of small banana producers in Peru and Ecuador, Montreal-based Equifruit Inc. expects steady supply in the months ahead, said Jennie Coleman, president of the firm.

Michigan State University researchers are conducting a study through April 1 to assess buyer requirements for produce safety standards in the U.S.