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Last week on Produce Market Guide searches for limes and chili peppers increase significantly.

The Packer’s West Coast Produce Expo has named Brighter Bites as the event’s golf tournament beneficiary.

The use of plastics across the produce supply chain is the focus of a new industry working group formed by the Canadian Produce Marketing Association.

The Department of Commerce sent what one Florida source called a “new and constructive proposal” to Mexican tomato exporters on May 3.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking comments until July 5 on a proposal to change U.S. fuji apple grade standards.

The California Kiwifruit Administrative Committee is seeking nominations for growers to serve on its board.

Interfresh Inc., Orange, Calif., has hired Michael “Jake” Jacobs as director of business development, in a new Scottsdale, Ariz., office for the company.

About two dozen retail, wholesale and foodservice produce buyers joined South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Commissioner of Agriculture Hugh Weathers for an agriculture summit.

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Several tropical fruits are closer to access to the U.S. market.