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For the first time, mandarins are getting the limelight for USDA food program purchases.

It doesn’t matter if it’s spring, summer, winter or fall, weather is always on producers’ minds. While slower seasons can offer relief, winter can drain emotional batteries. Here are two steps to help find relief.

Multi-variety ads can boost the momentum of bulk Pink Lady apple promotions around Valentine’s Day, says Brianna Shales, marketing director for Stemilt Growers, Wenatchee, Wash.

Meetings are an inevitable element of business, but they can be a boon or a bore, depending on how they are run.

Dole Food Co. is launching a five-month healthy-living initiative to celebrate the iconic role that fresh fruit plays in American life.

Side Delights seeks to offer cost-saving and nutritious shopping solutions for potatoes, as consumers increasingly embrace small kitchen appliances.

The organic enforcement final rule is expected to publish Jan. 18, the USDA has confirmed with The Packer, which separately met with Jonathan Veley of the USDA to discuss organic produce.

The Union City, Calif.-based plastic produce packaging company is transitioning both of its manufacturing facilities to solar energy in 2023, with the first going live in the first half of 2023.

Albertsons Cos. is rolling out a predictive ordering and inventory management platform by Afresh Technologies across almost all of its banner stores nationwide.

Good planning and helping hands from the produce department — and other store areas — are needed to prepare floral products in a tight time window ahead of the holiday, says columnist Armand Lobato.