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Sun Pacific is encouraging parents to drop the jelly beans and chocolate bunnies and stock Easter baskets with Cuties, through a spring social media campaign.

Banana volumes have been light in recent months thanks to inclement weather and other adverse conditions in numerous producing countries.

Though its work is far from done, funding for the Produce Safety Alliance is scheduled to run out by September 2019.

Sweet corn promotions generally start picking up the second week in April, with major peaks on the big four summer holidays — Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day.

After several years of strategy review and consultation, Zespri shareholders have voted to strengthen grower ownership and control of the company.

In Domex Superfresh Growers’ latest orchard update, chief horticulturist Dave Gleason delves into the importance of soil health for its orchards.

Industry leaders have rallied to ask for renewed funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops program.

Shoppers will again have the chance to sample Florida peaches as production gets going toward the end of March and beginning of April.

The organizers of the 2018 Viva Fresh Produce Expo have lined up a diverse range of topics for the event’s educational sessions.

Schmieding Produce, which ships watermelons grown in most of the major watermelon areas in the U.S., has acquired North Carolina grower Moore’s Produce.