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CHICAGO — In an industry that’s shaped by family-run businesses, planning for the next era of a company’s future can be rife with deep-seated feelings and complications.

With the help of a hydroponic farm at a Brooklyn middle school, Teens for Food Justice has launched a new Fresh Food Box program that will provide produce to local food-scare communities.

CHICAGO — Jan Berk’s path can be divided into two main careers: media and agriculture.

CHICAGO — The Packer’s Northeast editor, Amy Sowder, grabs Bronx, N.Y.-based Baldor Specialty Foods president Michael Muzyk at United Fresh to see what’s on his mind.

Ann Beaulieu, vice president of research and development and regulatory at Philadelphia-based AgroFresh Solutions, will join an advisory council focused on improving access to nutritious foods and reducing food waste.

A Northern California slaughterhouse involved in a massive beef recall processed cows with cancer while U.S. livestock inspectors took lunch breaks and later distributed the diseased cattle.

A Northern California meat processing plant that was shuttered by federal inspectors Monday because of unsanitary conditions has reopened.

Bowery Farming, headquartered in New York with farms in Kearny, N.J., hired two new executives to oversee the company’s marketing and sales operations.

At the fourth annual NYC AgTech Week Conference, attendees can tour farms and attend panel discussions, workshops and networking events hosted by the NYC Agriculture Collective.

The acquisition of Brooks and Co. and J&J Distributing by the Dragonfly Group should be completed in the fall.