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Sun Pacific is encouraging parents to drop the jelly beans and chocolate bunnies and stock Easter baskets with Cuties, through a spring social media campaign.

Banana volumes have been light in recent months thanks to inclement weather and other adverse conditions in numerous producing countries.

Though its work is far from done, funding for the Produce Safety Alliance is scheduled to run out by September 2019.

Sweet corn promotions generally start picking up the second week in April, with major peaks on the big four summer holidays — Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day.

Citing the “huge opportunity” for avocado consumption in China, Mission Produce President and CEO Steve Barnard announced the company is building a second ripening facility in the country.

The House of Representatives on March 22 passed a $1.3 trillion spending package, sending it to the Senate for a vote March 23 to avert a government shutdown that would begin that night.

Buyer speed meetings, innovation, enhanced networking opportunities and a little exercise added to the program help keep the 2018 Viva Fresh Expo from becoming “just another trade show” in a busy season of events.

The Produce Marketing Association sent volunteer leaders and staff to the iconic South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, for a couple days last week.

As the Potatoes USA annual meeting came to a close, the group welcomed a new chairman and executive committee.

Google searches related to Brussels sprouts show strong interest around the holidays, inquiries about the nutritional benefits of the vegetable and curiosity about how to use them in recipes.