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The Center for Produce Safety is offering up to $1 million in regional grants for researchers to study when and where ag water treatments are appropriate, and what options are available to growers.

The University of Georgia’s recent study on the potential effect of the “new NAFTA” on the state’s vegetable and berry growers is drawing friendly fire.

The U.S. Apple Association has hired Matthew Hendrickson in the newly created role of manager of association services.

Boggiatto Produce, Salinas, Calif., has changed its name to Hitchcock Farms in a rebranding.

Dawn Winsauer has been promoted to vice president of operations at PSSI, a food safety and contract sanitation provider.

Potato industry leader Dan Moss voiced support for immediate Congressional approval of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and expanded potato trade with China at a White House trade event May 23.

Summer is fast approaching, and consumers are already grabbing up fresh ripe strawberries for picnics, barbecues and other popular summertime activities.

Mastronardi Produce, Kingsville, Ontario, is investing in a partnership with vegetable exporter Soho Produce, Maasdijk, Netherlands.

The Dallas Fresh Food Association has donated a salad bar to Faith Family Academy-Oak Cliff in Dallas.

The Packer’s Tom Karst talks with Shay Myers, general manager of Nyssa, Ore.-based Owyhee Produce on May 28.