Latest News From Greenbeans

The first week of July brought a lot of shuffling of the top 20 produce items on Produce Market Guide, with some summertime specialties joining the ranks of standard favorites.

Although things weren't all red, white and blue on PMG in the week leading up to the July Fourth holiday, seasonal favorites still stacked the top 20.

For the past couple of weeks a certain specialty has been topping the charts on PMG — namely, loquat!

Lipman Family Farms, Immokalee, Fla., is featuring new organic and conventional fresh-cut green beans at the Produce Marketing Association’s virtual Fresh Summit.

Cucumbers held on to No. 1 on PMG the week of July 20, but yellow plums vaulted into the No. 2 spot, bumping beans to No. 3 and okra to No. 4.

Lipman Family Farms, Immokalee, Fla., is highlighting its Clipped & Clean Green Beans and expanded fresh-cut line at the Produce Marketing Association’s Foodservice: Delivered.

C&E Farms, Cheriton, Va., has a new Shorely Fresh package for unsnipped green beans.

For me, Thanksgiving brings up many memories of times with family—usually surrounding my mom or grandma in the kitchen.

Misionero Vegetables, Gonzales, Calif., is introducing green bean and Brussels sprouts saute kits under its Green Wave Farms fresh-cut line at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit expo.

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.

Guadalupe, Calif.-based Apio has debuted a new vegetable side kit line, TimeSavors, under the Eat Smart brand.

Growers of winter desert vegetables anticipate ample supplies of good-quality product for the holidays.

Plenty of good growing weather this year means supplies of sweet corn and green beans are expected to be very good, grower-shippers say.

Georgia grower-shippers expect favorable late-summer weather to help produce typical fall sweet corn and green bean harvests.