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This season has been sweet for the Sweet Carnival grape.

Industry veteran Rick Russo has joined Church Brothers Farms, Salinas, Calif., as vice president of strategic growth and planning.

The National Watermelon Promotion Board, Winter Springs, Fla., received 170 entries from across the U.S. and Canada for its 11th annual retail display contest.

Georgia Blueberry Growers Association, Philip Hoover, Prisma Produce & Distribution, Prospect Valley Acres, and SolanBranch are new companies to the Market. Direct Advantage LLC, Rancho Del Sol and other have changes.

Produce Packaging Inc., and Sandifer Farms LLC have had USDA operational updates. Gotham Greens Baltimore LLC, Liane LLC, Morris Organic Farm, Sena Foods LLC and Viva Farms are new firms to the Market and Updates.

Processor Missa Bay LLC has recalled more than three dozen salad products with romaine as investigators search for a cause of an eight-state E. coli outbreak with 17 cases.

Year-over-year retail food price increases continue to be tame and more of the same is expected for 2020.

New research reveals that millennial shoppers who buy avocados are important both to the avocado category and to the entire produce department.

Green Thumb Farms has launched a program fall to discover and develop new potato varieties.

Baker & Murakami Produce Company, LLLP, C. Isabelle & Fils Inc., Charmaine’s, Mark Nolt, Stoltzfus Produce are new companies to the Market. HB Farms LLC, High Acres Fruit Farm, and others have changes.