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Earthblend will be expanding on several fronts over the next few months. As a four year old company, it has diversified with its sister companies to handle fresh produce from seed to shipping.

U.S. 2021 import values for fresh produce commodities from Mexico exceeded double-digit gains for a long list of fruits and vegetables compared with 2020 data, according to USDA trade statistics.

The shotgun houses and clapboard shacks are gone, but a child’s toy lingers in farmland rows. Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper’s last testament: clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles.

From indoor farming to value-added convenience to sustainability and new product innovation, exhibitors at SEPC’s recent Southern Exposure event in Orlando, Fla., talked the hottest produce trends and more.

AM FRESH Group and Special New Fruit Licensing have announced a definitive agreement under which AM FRESH is acquiring International Fruit Genetics and merging it with SNFL.

Kristen Smith Eshaya is the new president of Yuma, Ariz.-based JV Smith Cos.

With the Potatoes USA 2022 annual meeting underway March 7-9 at the Brown Palace in Denver, Colo., the organization reports that U.S. potato exports remain strong.

The 2021 drought directly cost the California agriculture sector about $1.1 billion and nearly 8,750 full- and part-time jobs, according to estimates in a new analysis led by UC Merced researchers.