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Here are the top 10 commodities searched for on Produce Market Guide in 2021.

Students benefit by expanding their palates, taste-testing healthy foods and learning about food origins.

After three years of participating in major industry events, we improved our sourcing and connections with suppliers nationwide. At that time, we had only six stores, so it took a lot to get noticed by large suppliers.

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Inflation roared in 2021, hitting growers, distributors, restaurants, retailers and consumers, and creating concern about the course of the economic recovery.

It has been a challenging year for mushroom suppliers, but there have been rewards too.

With holiday buying and inflationary pressures coming together, the produce department in November experienced both the stresses of the pandemic and new factors, as well.

Mastronardi Produce is eyeing a new market in which to develop clusters of controlled agriculture partnerships and facilities.

NEW YORK CITY — “It’s been two years since we’ve seen everybody,” said Benjamin Walker, senior vice president of sales, marketing and merchandising at Baldor Specialty Foods, Bronx, N.Y.

The FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, is investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections potentially linked to Dole packaged leafy greens.