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The National Watermelon Promotion Board, Winter Springs, Fla., has replaced a planned event in New York City with three virtual events promoting watermelon to food media and influencers.

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association and the Canadian Horticultural Council are proceeding with the 2020 Fall Harvest event online.

Julie Krivanek, whose Krivanek Consulting, specializes in strategic planning, management consulting and mergers and acquisitions, is launching a new service in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on business.

We are all looking ahead, sometimes finding it more fruitful to think about the road ahead than the path we are on.

The International Banana Convention 2020 will be an online event for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The organic produce industry might be benefiting from its “health halo” during the coronavirus pandemic.

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic hasn’t just shaken the produce industry; it has forced packaging manufacturers as well as grower-shippers to change course — in some cases, dramatically.

California Giant, Watsonville, Calif., has launched a fundraising Gofundme account, Spreading Smiles, after the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled events that would have benefitted non-profits in the greater Pajaro Valley.

Canada’s produce sector felt the brunt of COVID-19 early, and a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service puts the ongoing experience into words.

Worker safety continues to be the top focus as the packing and shipping of early-ripening Premier Honeycrisp apples is gearing up at Gardners, Pa.-based Rice Fruit Co.