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Los Angeles-based The Wonderful Company has announced that Benal Serin has joined the firm as senior vice president of marketing.

Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow, (D-Mich.) says there will be no new funding for the 2023 farm bill. However, Stabenow stressed she will not allow a cut in conservation funding.

Bobalu Berry Farms has awarded 23 scholarships to students at nine high schools.

The USDA’s annual report on Mexican tomatoes forecasts Mexico’s 2023 fresh tomato production at 3.87 million metric tons, a 2% increase compared with 2022.

Longtime director Beth Mitcham is retiring after 31 years. Professors Irwin Donis-Gonzalez and Barbara Blanco-Ulate will serve as co-directors to lead the center into its next chapter.

Seventeen percent of all consumers polled by The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey indicated they purchased Brussels sprouts in the past year.

The new Ask Instacart search tool is designed to make meal planning easier, faster and more inspiring for grocery shoppers.

Starting in October the USDA will be charging increased fees for selected specialty crop grading and inspection services.

The new laboratory is part of the Bakersfield, Calif.-based table grape breeder’s $19 million IFG Discovery Center Campus that is slated to open in spring 2024.

“We are closer than we have ever been to funding a project that means so much to our nation’s food infrastructure,” said Phillip Grant, CEO of the Hunts Point Produce Market.