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The Urban School Food Alliance has named Katie Wilson as its first executive director.

Baloian Farms, Fresno, Calif., has promoted Reiley Johnstone in its sales department and Janet Torres in logistics.

NatureFresh Farms, Leamington, Ontario, is introducing new sustainability measures at the Canadian Produce Marketing Association Convention and Tradeshow.

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research awarded a $540,000 Seeding Solutions Grant to Cornell University to develop a way to convert nutritious agricultural waste into snack foods.

Everyone in the dairy industry, big or small, can coexist.

Western Growers, Irvine, Calif., has hired Anna Bilderbach as learning and development manager in the human resources department.

The U.S. Department has named two administrators of the Fair Trade Practices Program, which oversees the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act and country-of-origin labeling.

Judging from numbers from Nielsen Co. LLC, consumers in the western part of the U.S. are particularly fond of California avocados.

Maintaining consumer trust as the organic category grows will be a pivotal discussion at the Organic Trade Association’s annual conference.

Growers in the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement will soon be sanitizing “open-source” water used on their crops, which has been the focus of at least two recent E. coli outbreaks traced to leafy greens.