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As the western business director for the Giumarra Cos., Kellee Harris specializes in building and maintaining customer relationships.

Visalia, Calif.-based Pro Citrus Network has hired Kim Flores and Christine Raymer as vice presidents.

There is an earnest quote somewhere that says “Your attitude determines your altitude.”

Back from the Canadian Produce Marketing Association convention and trade show in Vancouver, and still marveling over the excellent show and the remarkable host city.

A pilot program in Nogales, Ariz., at the Mariposa Port of Entry, should speed up some inspections of Mexico grapes this season.

VANCOUVER — Arguing for the need to shift the consumer conversation from “No GMO” to “Know GMO,” author and agriculture advocate Rob Saik said the ability for agriculture to feed the world may be at stake.

Health officials have linked a death in California to an E. coli outbreak from romaine lettuce grown in Arizona, and the numbers of sick people continues to increase.

Big watermelon production and promotions are just ahead, the National Watermelon Promotion Board reports.

(Jan. 5) In all your culinary training, you probably never were taught to squirt vegetables from a whipping cream dispenser onto an entree.

It doesn’t happen every day - not even every week - but once every couple of weeks there is a U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service attache report that makes me sit up and take notice.