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Get ready for a new-look Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit.

Compared with year-ago levels, retail organic apple sales were up 30% in dollars and organic pear volume soared 29% in August.

Pleasant Prairie, Wis.-based Good Foods is launching its Queso, Buffalo and Tzatziki dips in single-serve sizes.

Several web seminars focus on traceability in the wake of the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed traceability rules.

Substantial investments in recycling and industrial compost facilities will be necessary to bring greater sustainability to produce packaging.

Crawford Packaging, Essex, Ontario, has promoted Doug Crowe to regional sales manager for Southwestern Ontario.

Atmospheric smoke has obscured grape-ripening sunlight while ash has coated green beans, cauliflower and other produce in nearby fields just days before scheduled harvesting.

Weston, Fla.-based Fudi Food Corp./Thx! has formed an independent advisory and transparency board to oversee execution of its social impact mission.

Potatoes aren’t mentioned in the Bible but that omission didn’t hold back the popularity of the root vegetable when European explorers brought it back from the Americas.

The California Blueberry Commission, Clovis, supports the administration’s intentions to investigate imported blueberries and their effects on U.S. growers.