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Georgia watermelon season is peaking as July 4th nears.

Henry Avocado Corp/CustomRipe, Hyfeld Company, Local Bounti Corporation, and Packaged Produce Solutions LLC are new companies to the Market. Aromas Produce, California Specialty Produce Inc. and others have updates.

The award recipient each year is featured on the cover of our magazine — now PMG, formerly Produce Retailer — and recognized in a ceremony at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.

The National Mango Board is having a webinar about evolving mango strategy.

Retail fresh produce sales for the week ending June 28 rose at the lowest growth rate since April 19, according to research firm IRI scan data.

Chiquita is releasing new fitness-related stickers on bananas in July to encourage fun, healthy living.

The Oppenheimer Group is partnering with microgreens and edible flower Koppert Cress, doing business as Flavour Fields, to develop and market varieties of specialty produce.

This information, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service, shows week-by-week shipments and f.o.b.s for commodities from shipments for the fresh market.

A new Washington organic blueberry company is marketing its first fresh crop.

After being hard hit early in the coronavirus pandemic, the herb category seems to be bouncing back, some say with significant double-digit growth.