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This is one Thanksgiving-themed meal that won’t have you making post-holiday diet plans.

Wawona Packing Co. LLC, Cutler, Calif., has acquired the stone fruit breeding assets of Burchell Nursery Inc., including more than 60 patented fruit trees and associated genetics.

Ireland-based Total Produce has been cleared by the European Commission for its plan to purchase a 45% stake in Dole Food Co.

Mission Produce is asking consumers to go green on Black Friday.

Naturipe Farms is seeing peak supplies of organic cranberries from Wisconsin, a trend that will continue to the third week of December.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has increased the number of salmonella infections related to English cucumbers purchased in Western Canada this summer.

Schnuck Markets Inc., St. Louis, with the help of consumers who shop at Schnucks stores, has donated $160,000 to Hurricane Florence relief efforts.

Canadian retailer Sobeys Inc. has issued a recall for 19 fresh-cut and deli products containing broccoli due to possible listeria contamination.

Wonderful Pistachios, celebrating 10 years, plans to keep on crackin’, with a $55 million marketing campaign kicking off in November.

DelFrescoPure is investing in technology with a new mechanized stand-alone growing system for the company’s living herbs and microgreens in a year-round process.