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Of the nearly 1,000 responses six different sides rose to the top: salad, West; green beans/casserole, Midwest; cornbread, South; rolls/biscuits, squash, Great Lakes Region; Northeast; and mac and cheese, Southeast.

Registration is closing for four Food and Drug Administration meetings on proposals for the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Produce Safety Rule.

Tour de Fresh, presented by The California Giant Foundation, is offering sponsorships for its sixth ride in the fall of 2019, along the majestic Big Sur Highway One in California.

Leo Rolandelli, aka the “Godfather of Asparagus” who ran Jacobs, Malcolm, and Burtt for nearly five decades, died Oct. 31. He was 77.

A sure sign of any significant disruption of the avocado market, as our news editor Chris Koger has said more than once, is a story (or a 1,000 stories) about how Chipotle is coping with the shortage.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture adjusted its estimate for the Florida orange crop to 77 million boxes, down 3% from October.

What’s in store for holiday produce shoppers this season? Traditional favorites like sweet potatoes and green beans of course, but fresh, ripe strawberries have become a year-round staple, too.

AgroAmerica, a Central and South American grower and exporter of bananas and pineapples, has donated $50,000 to conservation efforts of a tropical forest known as the Maya Biosphere Reserve.

CHEP has appointed Jake Gilene to senior vice president of sales and customer service of CHEP USA.

The U.S. Department has cited Frutera Del Litoral USA LLC, Miami, for failing to pay for almost $700,000 of produce.