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The Idaho Potato Commission is seeking out spud lovers for a new consumer contest.

Two peach fruit flies were found in Palm Beach County, Fla., on successive days earlier this month, the second time the pest — which has dozens of fruit and vegetable host plants — has been found in the state.

At the former site of the Bethlehem Steel mill in Baltimore, long after that business shut down, a new business is sprouting.

Georgia is not known as a citrus state. Not yet, anyway.

California’s citrus industry has a $7.12 billion economic impact, according to a study commissioned by the Citrus Research Board.

Wendy Brannen, who led communication and public relations efforts for Vidalia onions and U.S. apples, is the new director of policy communication for the American Soybean Association.

The obsession with pumpkin spice is now worth roughly $500,000 annually and its use is up tenfold since 2004. But, is peak pumpkin on the way?

This restaurant has lettuce growing on the walls.

The hits keep on coming for U.S. fruit exporters.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has found three Oriental fruit flies in south Miami-Dade County.