Search - The Packer

As food safety audits of leafy greens continue during the pandemic, California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement members have access to new tools streamlining the audit data.

The Packer’s Tom Karst on May 15 with Manuel Michel, executive director of the National Mango Board about the group’s latest initiative to honor “Retail Super Fruit Super Heroes” and other mango industry issues.

The United Fresh Produce Association and Produce Marketing Association has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to include them in any revisions or evaluations of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program.

With up to $2.1 billion for specialty crop producers at stake, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided the first details of the Coronavirus Farm Assistance Program direct payment plan.

Credit and financial services company Farm Credit is offering a web seminar featuring produce growers who will talk about the pandemic’s effects on their companies.

Are we already in the “new normal”?

No good deed goes unpunished.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has scheduled a series of web seminars to help produce growers and other producers sign up for direct payments through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.

Fresh produce market prices have been quite variable in the weeks since the COVID-19 crisis began in March.

The Produce Marketing Association’s Center for Growing Talent is bringing people in the produce and floral industry together with a Virtual Wellness Walk and Run Challenge.