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SALINAS, Calif. — Ag tech startups Ganaz and GroGuru each earned a $250,000 investment June 26 at the first ever Radicle Automation Challenge.

Studies published in Business Week show that 62% of mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve the negotiated revenue, market share and profit increases.

While fresh cranberries are spared, for now, the European Union is imposing a 25% retaliatory tariff on U.S. cranberry juice concentrate imports beginning June 22.

Center for Growing Talent executive director and Produce Marketing Association senior vice president Margi Prueitt will retire in February.

Compared to immigration-related tweets and tirades in Washington, D.C., the fate of the stoic farm bill is considerably less entertaining.

President Donald Trump has directed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to put together a list of another $200 billion of Chinese goods to subject to tariffs.

A new television advertisement from the U.S. Apple Association and Farmers for Free Trade calls on President Trump to end the trade war and support free trade.

Produce industry veteran Tristan Simpson has joined Hanford, Calif.-based Nichols Farms as its chief sales and marketing officer.

Village Farms has a new packaging plan for six of its snacking tomatoes.

Salinas, Calif.-based The Nunes Company is partnering again with celebrity Brooke Shields, who the company first started working with nearly 30 years ago.