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A course educating farmers market managers, vendors, and consumers about how to identify potentially mislabeled and misrepresented organic products is being offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A strong, high-quality potato crop should put the Maine Famers Exchange and its customers in a good position this year, said Bob Davis, vice president of the Presque Isle, Maine-based company.

About three weeks in, there was a blizzard, and I was a newbie closing the department on my own. It was the craziest, most frenetic work environment ... I got the produce bug quick and haven’t turned back.

Major opportunities are aligning for bamboo production in the United States, and even a small slice of the global market could bring windfall profits to American agriculture.

Putting trucking issues and concerns about retail in the crosshairs, the extraordinary transportation and labor pressures on the food supply chain were the focus of an House Agriculture Committee hearing on Nov. 3.

Commerce, Calif.-based 4Earth Farms has several new organic programs this year, said Mark Munger, vice president of the company.

Yakima, Wash.-based Sage Fruit Co. will again partner with Apeel Sciences to treat its organic apples, said Chuck Sinks, Sage Fruit president of sales and marketing.