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An April 22 web seminar hosted by The Packer and conducted by Category Partners will look at what is coming next for fresh produce at retail during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mike O’Brien, who joined Monterey Mushrooms 5 ½ years ago after more than four decades at retailer Schnuck Markets Inc., is retiring.

Grimmway Farms is preparing to ship new crop organic red and gold potatoes from its Cal-Organic Farms division from California.

Bountiful Blessings Community Services, Inc., Fortified Produce Brokers LLC, Jozour LLC, National Food Trading Corp., RS Produce LLC are new companies to the Market. Deardorff Orchards & others have updates.

Growers Express, which sold its fresh commodity vegetable and fresh value-added vegetable businesses to Church Brothers Farms, is moving from its longtime headquarters in Salinas, Calif., to offices in nearby Monterey.

TerraFresh Organics, Mill Valley, Calif., has hired Lorena Garcia as director of sales and business development.

After two years of late harvest starts, the California pear crop will be on a normal schedule, with harvest starting in early July.

Black Gold Farms, Grand Forks, N.D., will start harvest of red potatoes in Texas soon.

Rouge River Farms has been Endorsed. Avoexport Co Inc., Food Connection US Corp., Kooljet Refrigeration Systems, New Era’s American Asparagus Packing LLC, and Organic World LLC are new companies to the Market & more.

Grower-shippers were reluctant to go on record with their predictions for this season’s cherry crop, but most agreed that, if Mother Nature cooperates, there should be plenty to go around this spring and summer.