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The Produce Traceability Initiative Leadership Council met recently to put a new spotlight on voluntary adoption of PTI standards.

As consumers become increasingly distrustful on big tech companies, produce companies and organizations need to consider carefully how collection and use of consumer data affects trust and brand reputation.

Wada Farms Marketing Group, Idaho Falls, Idaho, is bolstering its organic potato offerings through an exclusive partnership with Genesis Organics.

Greenhouse grower-shipper Village Farms International is extending an exclusive growing partnership with a Mexican company, boosting supplies of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.

A survey of California dried plum (prune) growers puts the 2018 crop at 80,000 tons, down 24% from last season’s 105,000 tons.

Laurie Rinard, whose 35-year career in the produce industry focused on grapes and stone fruit from California’s San Joaquin Valley, died May 20. She was 60.

U.S. senators from both parties from citrus-producing states are asking the Senate Agriculture Committee to include $125 million in the farm bill for citrus greening research.

Vidalia onion grower Bland Farms, Glennville, Ga., is celebrating 70 years of farming.

Compac has a new laboratory designed to be deployed directly to fields and orchards, packed with the latest in analytical sensor technologies from parent company Tomra.

Western Growers is again seeking proposals from ag-tech startups who can compete for a minimum of $250,000 in investment capital through the 2018 AgSharks Competition.