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North Bay Produce, Traverse City, Mich., has new packaging that emphasizes its logo and focuses on the fresh product inside.

Dole Food Co., is adding recipes and videos, social media content and digital downloads to its summer promotion of unfamiliar fruits and vegetables through Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.” and “Monsters University.”

The trend for fresh produce consumption continues to spiral upward, even though the ongoing coronavirus COVID-19 has skewed purchases heavily on the retail side, suppliers say.

The Packer’s Tom Karst visited in July with Tevis Foreman, executive director of Produce Perks Midwest, based in Cincinnati.

The 2020 Rave apple harvest has begun.

Eagle Eye Produce, Idaho Falls, is shipping new crop russets, which will be followed shortly by harvesting of red and yellow potatoes.

An outbreak of Cyclospora infections linked garden salads continues to grow as health officials seek where the ingredients were grown.

The pandemic choked off foodservice sales because it forced eateries to close — or limit — their business activities, but it has not slowed onion demand, suppliers note.

Canadian grower Loveday Mushroom Farms has joined Kennett Square, Pa.-based South Mill Champs.

Julie Lutz-Lenosky has joined Bard Valley Date Growers as regional sales manager for the Southeast U.S.