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Avocado marketer Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., is preparing for an extended California avocado season.

This year’s nominees for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award includes Sinclair International’s EcoLabel.

Nace Brian Cohen, who founded Progressive Produce in Los Angeles in 1967 with Charles Gilb, as a potato and onion company, has died.

A Boston-based investment company is enabling London-based Westfalia Fruit International Ltd. To expand its ability to supply global markets with avocados.

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association has launched an online Waste Efficiency Tool.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Finding messages that will motivate “light” organic consumers to eat more is the goal of new consumer research by the Organic Trade Association.

Technology and methods to manage water use in growing produce is the focus of the Agricultural Water Summit.

GS1 US, Ewing, N.J., has hired Kraig Adams to be its vice president of blockchain, a new role at the company.

Fair Trade USA, which certifies fair trade products marketed in North America, has promoted Nathalie Marin-Gest as head of Fresh Goods, overseeing produce, floral and seafood.

Medford, Minn.-based greenhouse grower Revol Greens has plans to add California production, with a 16-acre facility near Los Angeles that more than doubles the company’s acreage.