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Strong demand for potatoes and potato products and tight domestic supplies continues to drive increases in imports for the current (July – June) marketing year.

Shuman Farms will be shipping Vidalia sweet onions from southeast Georgia through late August and early September.

The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rule on additional traceability requirements for certain foods is more complicated and expensive than it should be.

COVID-19 did nothing to subtract from banana demand, industry leaders say. In fact, the pandemic may have helped boost demand.

Working with two cooperatives of small banana producers in Peru and Ecuador, Montreal-based Equifruit Inc. expects steady supply in the months ahead, said Jennie Coleman, president of the firm.

Michigan State University researchers are conducting a study through April 1 to assess buyer requirements for produce safety standards in the U.S.

Deborah Birx, former White House coronavirus coordinator, will join Dallas-based ActivePure Technologies as chief medical and scientific advisor, the company’s CEO, Joseph Urso, said in a news release.

Banana marketers find plenty of reasons to believe in the future of organic bananas.

Mangoes will be available to promote leading up to Cinco de Mayo, grower-shippers say.

Shoppers want what they can’t have.