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The avocado has become what the grapefruit once was, and vice versa.

The Packer’s Tom Karst visited in August with Nathan Pumplin, president of Norfolk Healthy Produce, about his company’s work on a genetically modified purple tomato.

The Rocky Ford, Colo.-based family business shares the challenges and triumphs of this year’s melon growing season.

The Minot, N.D.-based firm focused on agriculture, fresh produce and specialty food industries has named Melissa Edwards as marketing manager and Sabrina Wilson as marketing assistant.

The grapefruit’s fall from the hallowed pedestal it enjoyed in the 1970s can’t be pinned on one single factor.

Winn-Dixie, Harveys and Fresco y Mas grocery stores partner with DoorDash to offer online shopping and delivery starting October 2022.

Tom Spreen, professor emeritus at the University of Florida, came to Florida in 1977 as a “green” assistant professor of economics, fresh out of Purdue.

With inflation spiraling out of control, labor costs on the rise and an adequate supply of workers increasingly difficult to come by.