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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.

Fox Packaging, McAllen, Texas, has officially opened a 32,000-square-foot printing facility.

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.

After several years of strategy review and consultation, Zespri shareholders have voted to strengthen grower ownership and control of the company.

In Domex Superfresh Growers’ latest orchard update, chief horticulturist Dave Gleason delves into the importance of soil health for its orchards.

DENVER — A year ago, Potatoes USA members started a new campaign to market potatoes as a performance food. A year later, they confirmed that’s the right track.

Georgia blueberries suffered some damage as temperatures dipped below freezing the week of March 5.