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Produce industry veteran Tristan Simpson has joined Hanford, Calif.-based Nichols Farms as its chief sales and marketing officer.

Village Farms has a new packaging plan for six of its snacking tomatoes.

Salinas, Calif.-based The Nunes Company is partnering again with celebrity Brooke Shields, who the company first started working with nearly 30 years ago.

Masser Potato Farms, Sacramento, Pa., hired Charles “Chip” Callahan as director of foodservice sales.

Pennsylvania apple marketer Fred Hess, 70, died June 14.

The incoming chairwoman’s background could really shake things up on the board of the United Fresh Produce Association.

By a razor-thin 213-211 vote, the House of Representatives passed the farm bill June 21.

Steve Lutz, the Produce Marketing Association’s regional vice president-U.S. and Canada West, has ended his affiliation at CMI Orchards.

Once the management practices and strategic plan is solid, and you have positioned the business to move forward with a liquidity event, what are the next steps?

President Donald Trump has announced plans to put in place 25% tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods, and apples and cherries are among the items that will be affected by retaliatory tariffs.