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Versatility is a retail promotional bonanza for Florida avocados, suppliers say. Retailers are best-served by providing shoppers with usage ideas and choices, they said.

Miami-based J&C Tropicals has upgraded its packing process, said Jessie Capote, executive vice president and co-owner.

Unity Groves Corp. has expanded its acreage and looked to improve groves by “grafting better varieties,” said Louie Carricarte, president and owner.

Rough tropical weather in 2017 and its fallout in 2018 are now history, and Florida avocado grower-shippers say they are eager to get back to business as usual this year.

Chilean clementines are on the water and Chile’s summer citrus season has begun.

Chilean blueberry export volume in 2018-19 will be down slightly from last year’s record levels, but the North American market will be well-supplied.

With higher prices offsetting reduced volume, 2016-17 Florida citrus returns were little different than the previous year, a new report says.

Seeking an 11th-hour deal that would preserve a revised tomato suspension agreement with the Commerce Department, Mexican tomato growers have submitted a proposal.

As those crunchy, juicy globes of ruby, green and gold trickle into the market, fourth-generation grower-marketer-distributor Alisha Albinder Camac updates us on the 2019 Eastern apple season.

Lyndonville, N.Y.-based United Apples Sales opened a West Coast division based in Yakima, Wash., and hired Frank Davis as vice president of national business development.