Garlic
MorganMyers’ Food and Flavor Trends Report Reveals the Top 10 flavors expected to break out next year.
Ideal winter conditions and sustained year-over-year volume gains have nationwide grower-shippers primed for strong market performance.
The Orlando-based supplier introduces 5-ounce resealable pouches of fresh diced garlic while capitalizing on surging demand among Gen Z and millennial organic buyers.
Suppliers report sales of organic garlic trending upward and becoming an increasingly important piece of their business.
The fresh garlic provider has opened an expanded R&D kitchen, named for co-founder and matriarch Ann Caneza, at its company headquarters in Orlando, Fla.
With time continuing to be a premium for consumers, garlic marketers say they see rising interest in garlic convenience products as well as organics.
Executive Vice President Ken Christopher says that while tariffs and trade wars may not be in the best interest of the nation in the long run, there are industries that can benefit from them.
USDA statistics reveal that U.S. fresh garlic imports jumped 33% in the 12 months from June 2023 to May 2024.
The firm is a year-round supplier of the garlic category, non-Chinese and Chinese, including fresh bulk, packaged, peeled and further-processed garlic.
Spice World is celebrating its 75th anniversary this summer.
California garlic harvest will begin by mid-June, but COVID-19-related demand is expected to keep market conditions firm in the weeks ahead.
The values of Kern County’s top two crops in 2019 switched, with the almond crop higher than the value of its grape crop for the first time since 2011.
After being hard hit early in the coronavirus pandemic, the herb category seems to be bouncing back, some say with significant double-digit growth.
Garlic supplies were ramping back up in early summer following a spring when the pungent bulbs sometimes were hard to find.
Apples and potatoes are among the crops now eligible for direct payments to growers for sales losses in the $2.1 billion in Coronavirus Food Assistance Program funds for specialty crops.
Generation Farms, Vidalia, Ga., is adding white and purple garlic to its line of fruits and vegetables.
Joe Millman has joined I Love Produce’s marketing team.
The Packer’s Tom Karst visits April 2 with Jim Provost, president of I Love Produce, West Grove, Pa.
Pummelos, oranges and strawberries maintained the top three spots on PMG the week of Jan. 11, but mandarins rose from No. 11 the previous week to No. 4, and cabbage, previously No. 12, moved up to the No. 5 spot.
Gilroy, Calif.-based Christopher Ranch is raising money for elephant conservation through sales of Christopher Ranch Elephant Garlic.
GILROY, Calif. — There has been a resurgence of California garlic in the last ten years, and the 2018 California garlic crop will put an exclamation point on that trend.
Make the most of the universal appeal of this piquant pleasure.
The U.S. slapped 25% tariffs on a number of fruit and vegetable imports from China, from cauliflower to garlic and certain berries.
Police are investigating a shooting that has left three people dead at the 41st annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, including a 6-year-old boy.
Fresno County’s agriculture production in 2018 hit a record $7.89 billion, a 12% increase over 2017 numbers.
Don Christopher says he’s looked forward to Mondays for his entire life -- he gets to go to work.