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Diesel prices hit historic highs this week. Due to increased demand and a drop in production, a diesel shortage may be looming as the largest diesel distribution hub in the U.S. is sitting on supplies at a 30-year low.

Each year, Deloitte and Wall Street Journal partner to showcase US and Canadian Best Managed Companies companies.

Despite worrisome inflation, the Coral Gables, Fla.-based company has reported its sales for the quarter ending April 1 were up 5% compared with a year ago.

The Leamington, Ontario-based company has launched Solara melons, what it says are the fresh produce industry’s first commercial greenhouse-grown melons.

International ag robotics competition will hold its inaugural U.S. edition in Fresno, Calif. The event will be Oct. 18 - 20, 2022.

Holloway President Vard Terry was an agvocate five decades before the term existed, and I’m not sure there’s a better advocate of the industry today.

Value-added salad leader Fresh Express has contributed $500,000 to Center for Produce Safety’s current capital campaign to fund fresh produce food-safety research, according to a news release.

Fresh Farms hired John Senn as a sales associate. Senn will be working in the Kingsburg, Calif. office, and represent the company’s grape, vegetable and melon categories.