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We’ve added a new prize, a new judge and want you to take some photos of your produce displays and send them to us to enter the fast-approaching contest.

The Equitable Food Initiative is using National Safety Month to underscore ways to engage the 2.6 million U.S.-based farmworkers in strategies to increase safety, drive efficiencies and boost retention and recruitment.

Michigan apples experienced a slight dip in volume in the calendar year 2022, but the 2022-23 marketing year promises big gains, shipment data shows.

United Natural Foods Inc. will eliminate 150 roles — mostly managers and supervisors — as part of its consolidation of four operating regions into three: East, Central and West.

The brand is currently offering organic mini watermelons, organic cantaloupe and organic honeydew melons from Mexico and California to its East Coast customers.

Along with Mountain View Fruit Sales expanding its table grape portfolio, owner Mike Thurlow is projecting 2023 to be a vintage grape season.

At Organic Confluence Day, organic growers and distributors shared how they are experimenting and finding creative solutions to reduce organic’s reliance on plastic across the supply chain.

In this second episode of our ZAG Technologies series, produce veteran Andy Tudor shares how tech doesn’t necessarily involve computers, but it can. Listen to how it’s changed the industry and will continue to do so.

Any organization that deals with fresh produce works to meet both their external and internal customer needs — and that includes how its operations handle delivery delays, says columnist Armand Lobato.