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The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council has launched “Blueberries Go Big,” a new marketing campaign that it says evokes an emotional connection to the fruit.

Each of the three quarantines for the Mexican fruit fly in the state have been reduced due to a three-generation lapse in detections.

This 10-year collaboration seeks to leverage TELUS’ agricultural database and analytics to digitize compliance and traceability.

Ed Oldham will join as head of sourcing; Ann Reed has been named group vice president of Our Brands; Jake Cannon has been named Cincinnati-Dayton division president; and Josh Harpole has been named Louisville division president.

In her new role as the executive vice president of farming operations, Camarena will oversee all farming operations through harvest for Bonipak Produce and Betteravia Farms.

Icafolin-methyl represents the first new weed-killing chemistry in more than 30 years.

To learn more about what’s ahead for the nutrition program that serves nearly 7 million people across the U.S., The Packer recently sat down with National WIC Association President and CEO Georgia Machell.

The new bill duplicates elements of the on-going WOTUS rework effort by EPA, but has been praised for helping to bring regulatory certainty by excluding certain types of water under the “navigable waters” definition.

President Donald Trump said on Monday most trading partners that do not negotiate separate trade deals would soon face tariffs of 15% to 20% on their exports to the U.S.

Abhay Thosar, chief horticultural specialist at Sollum Technologies, shares the tremendous improvements the controlled environment agriculture industry has made with its lighting in the past decade or so.