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Fusion, a business-to-business integrated marketing agency focused on fresh produce and grocery in the retail environment, was named a top ten retail marketing service company by Retail Tech Insights magazine.

Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is adding sections to the citrus black spot (CBS) quarantine area in Florida.

From July 2020 - June 2021, potato sales increased in dollars by 3% but declined slightly in volume by 0.3% compared to the previous July-June marketing year.

The USDA announced today an investment of $69 million to address critical food and nutrition security needs of low-income communities enduring the pandemic.

Effective July 14, USDA and the Texas Department of Agriculture expanded the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) quarantines in the cities of Brownsville and Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas.

More citrus-growing areas of Australia have been cleared to export to the U.S.

Effective Aug. 24, the USDA is implementing restrictions on all commercial consignments of fresh fig fruits imported into the U.S. from Mexico to prevent the introduction of black fig fly.

The long, jolting journey that has been the COVID-19 pandemic is not ideal for organic marketers, but it isn’t disaster either.

Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises has acquired Irvington, N.Y.-based BrightFarms, the indoor farming company and provider of locally grown packaged salads in several states.

This era of COVID-19 uncertainty is getting old.