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Village Farms has a new packaging plan for six of its snacking tomatoes.

Salinas, Calif.-based The Nunes Company is partnering again with celebrity Brooke Shields, who the company first started working with nearly 30 years ago.

Masser Potato Farms, Sacramento, Pa., hired Charles “Chip” Callahan as director of foodservice sales.

Pennsylvania apple marketer Fred Hess, 70, died June 14.

The incoming chairwoman’s background could really shake things up on the board of the United Fresh Produce Association.

By a razor-thin 213-211 vote, the House of Representatives passed the farm bill June 21.

While fresh cranberries are spared, for now, the European Union is imposing a 25% retaliatory tariff on U.S. cranberry juice concentrate imports beginning June 22.

Stemilt Growers’ organic dark cherry volume is coming on and will be sufficient for pre-July 4 promotions, according to the marketer.

Santa Paula, Calif.-based Limoneira Company said higher lemon volume and prices boosted its quarterly results.

Starting in mid-June, red potatoes from Missouri’s boot heel region will be available from Grand Forks, N.D.-based Black Gold Farms.