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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Produce for Better Health Foundation has the destination: Double fruit and vegetable consumption. The plan to get there should emerge in the next year.

Belle Glade, Fla.-based Heritage Farms Produce has recently launched a value-added tray pack option for sweet corn.

Bakersfield, Calif.-based Cal-Organic Farms, subsidiary of Grimmway Farms, is launching a consumer-oriented organic brand campaign.

As promised, I said would look at the newly updated per capita availability numbers with an eye toward the under-performing fresh commodities compared with their peers.

Salinas, Calif.-based PlantTape is hosting an open house April 10 in Five Points, Calif., to talk with tomato growers about its automated transplanting system.

(UPDATED, April 9) Effective May 7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow imports of Chilean fresh lemons without methyl bromide fumigation for pests.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, (foreground), Lef Farms in Loudon, N.H., in September during a “Back to Our Roots” RV tour. Perdue and USDA staff are again traveling in an RV this week.

Avocado marketer Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., has scheduled its next seminar series for avocado growers.

Having taken a quick look this morning at the recently updated per capita numbers for fresh vegetables, I am here to tell you the winners and losers.

An omnichannel campaign by the Folsom-based California Walnut Board spurred major sales increases for retailers in Minneapolis and in Charlotte, N.C.