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Urban Picnik salad meals, now available at retailers in Quebec where the company is based, is branching out across Canada, with distribution to grocery and convenience stores – and an eye on U.S. expansion.

Naturipe Farms is seeing peak supplies of strawberries from California.

While overall production of mushrooms in the U.S. was slightly down in the 2017-18 season, sales hit an all-time high for the crop, at $1.23 billion, buoyed by per-pound increases across the board.

Greenhouse grower Mucci Farms, Kingsville, Ontario, is opening a distribution center in San Antonio to serve U.S. customers.

Homegrown Organic Farms, Porterville, Calif., has formed a partnership with the Three Sisters Organic brand, expanding Homegrown’s grape offerings.

It’s officially pumpkin spice latte season — Dunkin’ Donuts starts serving the iconic fall drink Aug. 27, and Starbucks starts the next day — which means thoughts will be turning to pumpkins.

With the U.S. Department of Agriculture proclaiming September as National Mushroom Month, the Mushroom Council is promoting bowls as a meal option from breakfast to dinner.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — University of Idaho researchers are working with Walmart to look at the reasons behind rejected or downgraded potato loads at the chain’s distribution centers.

Potato grower-shipper group RPE is kicking off a new crop with new offerings of its fingerling Party Potatoes, under the Old Oak Farms brand.

Don’t blush, but Honeybear Brands’ First Kiss apples are appearing in stores.