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Despite the bottom dropping out of the restaurant industry as businesses closed in response to the spread of the coronavirus this spring, mushroom companies saw volume drop just 2% for the year that ended June 30.

The Platinum Packaging Group, Paramount, Calif., and Terphane have been working together to provide companies with the ability to pack prepared meals with an emphasis on food safety.

The Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference is foregoing its annual Savannah, Ga., venue for a virtual event in 2021.

Food Fight GA, established during the COVID-19 pandemic to help Atlanta-area restaurant workers and farmers who supply the restaurants, is being recognized with a Produce Marketing Association Impact Award.

A survey of California’s Bay Area consumers show they agree that agriculture is important to the quality of life and economy in California.

The fresh produce world has shared the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, and those experiences and lessons learned were shared at the Produce Marketing Association’s virtual Fresh Summit.

The Potato Expo 2021 is going 100% virtual.

Business conditions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic cost Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. more than $70 million in net sales for the quarter ending Sept. 25, hampering banana, value-added and fresh sales.

UPDATED: The USDA is allocating another $500 million for the Farmers to Family Food Box Program, which has already distributed more than 110 million boxes of produce, meat and dairy products.

Tony Alameda, co-owner of Top Flavor Farms, is the new chairman of the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California.