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The Tyler Phipps Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Nixa, Mo., is again offering a $3,500 scholarship to a high school senior looking to pursue further education in the agriculture industry.

Leamington, Ontario-based NatureFresh Farms is expanding greenhouse acreage.

Package Containers Inc. has hired David Moen as regional sales manager and retail director.

Dallas-based DMA Solutions has chosen nine students from Texas A&M University to attend the upcoming Viva Fresh Produce Expo in San Antonio.

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.

Citing the “huge opportunity” for avocado consumption in China, Mission Produce President and CEO Steve Barnard announced the company is building a second ripening facility in the country.

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