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Village Farms International Inc. will now be traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market.

Stu Monaghan, whose 30 years in the produce industry was focused on sales and management roles in the southeast, died Feb. 26. He was 52.

Edel, a lifelong Chicagoan, is the founder and executive director of The Plant, an evolving vertical farm housed in an old meatpacking plant in Chicago’s once-booming Union Stock Yards.

With year-round shipments of fruits and vegetables, Michigan is a fresh produce force in the U.S.

New York City’s last milk processing plant is shutting down after nearly a century in operation, putting more than 270 people out of work.

CHICAGO — In an industry that’s shaped by family-run businesses, planning for the next era of a company’s future can be rife with deep-seated feelings and complications.

CHICAGO — Jan Berk’s path can be divided into two main careers: media and agriculture.

CHICAGO — The Packer’s Northeast editor, Amy Sowder, grabs Bronx, N.Y.-based Baldor Specialty Foods president Michael Muzyk at United Fresh to see what’s on his mind.

A Northern California slaughterhouse involved in a massive beef recall processed cows with cancer while U.S. livestock inspectors took lunch breaks and later distributed the diseased cattle.

A Northern California meat processing plant that was shuttered by federal inspectors Monday because of unsanitary conditions has reopened.