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Food Fight GA, established during the COVID-19 pandemic to help Atlanta-area restaurant workers and farmers who supply the restaurants, is being recognized with a Produce Marketing Association Impact Award.

A survey of California’s Bay Area consumers show they agree that agriculture is important to the quality of life and economy in California.

The fresh produce world has shared the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, and those experiences and lessons learned were shared at the Produce Marketing Association’s virtual Fresh Summit.

The Potato Expo 2021 is going 100% virtual.

Business conditions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic cost Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. more than $70 million in net sales for the quarter ending Sept. 25, hampering banana, value-added and fresh sales.

The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement and Western Growers has launched an online audit system to use in place of some in-person parts of the LGMA audit process.

U.S. growers must apply to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 by Dec. 11.

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association is expanding its annual 2020 convention with a full week of online events and networking opportunities.

NEW YORK — More than nine months in, the unpredictability of this pandemic-ridden market has become a smidge more predictable, according to speakers at the virtual New York Produce Show and Conference.

UPDATED: The USDA is allocating another $500 million for the Farmers to Family Food Box Program, which has already distributed more than 110 million boxes of produce, meat and dairy products.