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California’s Citrus Research Board has brought on Franco Bernardi as its interim president.

Our digital library of past issues of The Packer goes back to 1993, and that makes recalling the headlines of Fresh Summit expos in the recent past very accessible.

It is one of the ironies of marketing that the healthiest food often isn’t labeled as such at our retail supermarkets.

An oil painting of produce industry legend Frieda Rapoport Caplan will be displayed at the Ball Design booth the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit Oct. 19-20, in Orlando, Fla.

Preliminary losses to Georgia’s fall vegetable crops from Hurricane Michael have been estimated at $230 to $300 million by agricultural specialists at the University of Georgia.

It has been a record-setting fall for the California table grape industry.

It was family day at the farm on Oct. 13 as the Eastern Produce Council hosted its fourth-annual Joe DeLorenzo Family Day and Apple Picking Event at Melick’s Family Farm, Oldwick, N.J.

My recent Fresh Talk post about the resiliency of exports was a little too glib and simplistic for one West Coast produce exporter.

(UPDATED, Oct. 10) A life-threatening category 4 hurricane the morning of Oct. 10, the eye of Michael is expected to make landfall over the Florida Panhandle later in the day.

Arvin, Calif.-based Tasteful Selections, in partnership with RPE Inc., is implementing a comprehensive rebrand of its full line of bite-size potatoes.