California
Merritt Bruce has joined Church Brothers Farms, Salinas, Calif., as vice president of retail business development.
Gold Coast Packing teamed up with the Santa Maria Valley (Calif.) YMCA recently to teach children how to grow vegetables and turn them into center-of-the-plate dishes.
It has been a record-setting fall for the California table grape industry.
The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement has adopted the changes made by its Arizona counterpart in the wake of an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce grown in Arizona — with one exception.
The California Fresh Fruit Association has prioritized issues for 2019, with federal immigration policies and their effects on the labor force as the leading issue.
Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., wrapped up its California avocado season with record prices on a per-carton basis.
California stone fruit companies Gerawan Farming Inc., Fresno, and Wawona Packing Co. LLC, Cutler, have merged.
Seven Seas has hired Brent Young as manager of sales in its Visalia, Calif., office.
Mandarins continue to gain popularity throughout the U.S., grower-shippers say.
Hitchcock Farms, Salinas, Calif., has hired Jill Lenz and Dan Holt to its sales team.
Ocean Mist Farms, Castroville, Calif., has started harvesting the Coachella artichoke crop.
Table grape breeder Sheehan Genetics LLC, Fresno, Calif., is building a research and development facility for new varieties for growers in California and the Americas.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has scheduled a public hearing for changes to the marketing order for California walnuts.
Increased regulations and other issues have prompted San Miguel Produce to reduce Ventura County, Calif., acreage and partner with other growers across North America to ensure a year-round supply.
Several California growers offer the new GEM avocado, but credit for bringing the variety to the forefront should go to Index Fresh Inc., Riverside, Calif.
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The Irvine-based California Avocado Commission has come up with a new advertising campaign to call attention to California avocados this season and help move more of them, said Jan DeLyser, vice president of marketing.
Just as demand for conventional avocados continues to climb, so does demand for their organic counterparts.
About 50 growers in California’s Ojai Valley in Ventura County have begun harvest pixie tangerines.
Kyla Oberman has returned to berries, as California Giant’s director of marketing.
California cherry growers expect to harvest slightly more fruit this season than last year, assuming they don’t see a repeat of the heavy rainfall that devastated much of their fruit last May.
Anthony Johnson has joined Hronis Inc., Delano, Calif., as a domestic sales associate.
Fresh Solutions Network, supplier of Side Delights potatoes and onions, is one of many fresh produce companies promoting recent research that shows a link between more vegetables and a better state of mind.
SnackNation named Los Angeles-based Wonderful Pistachios Roasted & Salted as the Best Nut or Trail Mix of 2019 in its data-driven SnackNation Insights Awards competition.
Ippolito International, Salinas, Calif., has hired Jason Grolnick as sales/commodity manager and Jon Kiley as director of value added/business development.
A robotic strawberry harvester known as the T-6 from Advanced Farm Technologies, Davis, Calif., has received a $7.5 million boost from investors in a Series A funding round.
Big California volume was contributing to low shipping point prices and strong promotion opportunities for California strawberries in mid-May.
California’s citrus industry has a $7.12 billion economic impact, according to a study commissioned by the Citrus Research Board.
Shipments of California grapes are down about 8% from last season, but average per-pound prices for the major varieties are the same.
Glenmont, N.Y.-based New York Apple Sales Inc. will launch its new consumer brand of Yes! Apples at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit Oct. 18-19 in Anaheim, Calif.