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Issaquah, Wash.-based Vanguard International has hired Ana Yanez as a sales associate.

The planned sale of Bakersfield, Calif.-based Grimmway Farms to Teays River Investments comes less than two years after another carrot giant, Bakersfield-based Bolthouse Farms, sold to Butterfly Equity.

The Fresh Produce & Floral Council is holding will be holding its annual holiday charity auction virtually this year.

Cincinnati-based flexible packaging supplier ProAmpac has acquired Rosenbloom Groupe Inc., Hymopack Ltd. and Dyne-A-Pak, private businesses based in Canada that manufacture packaging products.

Fresh produce packaging specialists StePac L.A., Ltd. has been acquired by Nili Capital Partners, an Israeli private equity fund.

I take issue with the term “clean” in the trendy Clean Eating movement.

The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer dropped 16 points to a reading of 167 in November, down from its all-time high set just one month ago.

The Washington Apple Education Foundation (WAEF) scholarship application is currently open and available to students raised in tree fruit industry families with plans to attend college in the fall of 2021.

Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., has been approved by the Democratic Caucus to serve as the first African American chairman of the House Agriculture Committee in the 117th Congress that will convene in January.

Miami-based Moxxy Marketing has promoted Christina Fuentes to junior project manager, with a focus on East Coast clients.