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Florida’s orange growers are expected to ship 6.4 million boxes of grapefruit and 1.2 million boxes of tangerines this season.

Foodservice distributor What Chefs Want, Louisville, Ky., is expanding its network with the purchase of Mid/West Fresh Produce, Columbus, Ohio.

Broccoli grower Atlantic Fresh, formed by L&M and Parker Farms, is expanding its acreage.

Village Farms International Inc. will now be traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market.

Stu Monaghan, whose 30 years in the produce industry was focused on sales and management roles in the southeast, died Feb. 26. He was 52.

Edel, a lifelong Chicagoan, is the founder and executive director of The Plant, an evolving vertical farm housed in an old meatpacking plant in Chicago’s once-booming Union Stock Yards.

With year-round shipments of fruits and vegetables, Michigan is a fresh produce force in the U.S.

New York City’s last milk processing plant is shutting down after nearly a century in operation, putting more than 270 people out of work.

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.

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