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Hispanic households are buying avocados at a rate nearly 50% above non-Hispanic households.

Crop One Holdings, whose vertical farms company FreshBox Farms grows leafy greens, has added executives from The Giorgi Cos. Inc., parent of mushroom grower Giorgio Fresh, to its advisory board.

The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation has approved $1 million to expand corrugated packaging curriculum in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sanctioned five produce companies for failing to pay Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act reparations.

The FDA investigation into an E. coli outbreak from Yuma, Ariz., romaine turned up no specific source, but concluded it’s likely contaminated irrigation water from a canal that passes near a cattle operation.

Todd Fryhover has done it all.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Bringing together two big consumer brands, Pasadena, Calif.-based Sun Pacific Cuties are the official citrus at Disney resorts.

James Milne says he always has been “a little bit of an ideas guy.”

Armed with a slow Southern drawl and a quick mind, Charles Hall has a singular focus on the needs of Georgia growers.

Dozens of foods likely to provoke extreme disgust in many people - but considered palatable, even delicious, in their home cultures are going on display at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden.