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Growing up in New Mexico, around a family of farmers and ranchers, rain was the currency of hope. I spent every season waiting on rain. Anything over a 10% chance was a “good chance” for moisture.

“It changed me. I had a new perception, a newfound purpose,” Bolden told the crowd.

Salinas, Calif., value-added produce innovator Steve Taylor, 67, died Aug. 21 from heart and lung failure, according to an obituary.

The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service has awarded a total of $72.9 million in the fiscal year 2022 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program funding.

Frank Gargiulo & Son Inc., Hillside, N.J., has been awarded a $239.4 million contract to supply fresh fruits and vegetables to military facilities and schools in New York.

The pests were first detected in Pennsylvania in 2014 and have since spread to 11 states in the eastern U.S.

Israel-based Save Foods, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has provided the company a Notice of Allowance for its patent application.

Seattle-based Strella Biotechnology has announced the launch of its automated quality management platform for retailers.

Healthy Family Project is encouraging registered dietitians to consider if they have what it takes to be the cause marketing organization’s next Official Registered Dietitian.