Cucumbers
Kingsville, Ontario-based Mastronardi Produce and Morehead, Ky.-based AppHarvest are partnering to build a sustainable, high-tech 60-acre greenhouse in Morehead.
As consumers set out to eat healthier, more and more organic produce seems to be popping up on supermarket shelves.
Greenhouse grower Mastronardi Produce is partnering with an entrepreneur noted for building well-known tequila and hair care brands in a venture to promote high-density farming systems across the globe.
McDill Associates, Soquel, Calif., scooped up awards at the 2018 Silicon Valley ADDY Awards, including a gold award for marketing Pure Hothouse products.
Houweling’s Group has partnered with investment firm Equilibrium to modernize and expand production at its greenhouses.
Three months after the first fresh produce was picked at the facility, company officials say Pure Flavor’s Fort Valley, Ga., greenhouse is already making inroads in the Southeast.
Delightful Quality Produce Company has hired a new vice president of sales and business development.
The Public Health Agency of Canada has increased the number of salmonella infections related to English cucumbers purchased in Western Canada this summer.
L&M Cos. has four times the amount of organic produce planted in Florida this season.
Amelia Freidline and Ashley Nickle talk cucumbers and the likelihood-of-purchase age gap for them.
Health officials in Canada and Washington state are investigating more than 50 cases of salmonella possibly linked to cucumbers.
Fresh-Link Produce LLC has hired Randy Bolhuis to open an office in Hamilton, Mich., where he will be the sales agent for Sandy View Farms.
PennRose Farms, Wimauma, Fla., a grower-owned company that has a network of growers in the U.S. and Mexico, is expanding its geographic footprint.
Windset Farms spoke with visitors to its United Fresh Live! booth about its greenhouse-grown Cameo cherry tomatoes-on-the-vine, its Crescendo long peppers, its Fresco Baby Cucumbers and other items.
Bayer is partnering with Israeli artificial intelligence data analytics company Prospera Technologies Inc. in a program the companies say will optimize profitability and sustainability of greenhouse growing.
After conducting trials to support commercialization, Verdant Technologies is now partnering with SunFed to use Verdant’s HarvestHold Fresh technology to deliver fresh and greener cucumbers.
According to Fresh Trends 2023, 46% of consumers reported fresh cucumber purchases in the past year.
Farmer’s Best LLC will increase its acreage in seedless cucumbers, elongated red peppers, and eggplant programs, says Sasha Lewton, sales manager.
Volume of Mexican produce items was expected to increase for PennRose Farms LLC after Thanksgiving, says spokesperson Christopher Ciruli.
San Antonio-based NatureSweet highlighted its Constellation three-color pack of mini sweet peppers at the Associated Wholesale Grocers’ seventh annual Innovation Showcase.
As part of a larger multistate salmonella outbreak, the company recalled its cucumbers from the grower implicated in the outbreak.
The agency traced the outbreak to American/slicer cucumbers grown by Agrotato S.A. de C.V. in Sonora, Mexico.
The company is set to unveil its organic seedless English cucumbers at the Southeast Produce Council’s Southern Exposure event in Orlando, Fla.
With plenty of fruits and vegetables heading to the U.S., companies spoke with The Packer about crop quality and program outlooks.
The Food and Drug Administration said more companies pulled products containing recalled cucumbers.