Latest News From Massachusetts

Despite the challenges of inflation and the residual effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, business overall seems to be strong for produce suppliers in the Boston area market.

Morning Kiss Organic has an expanded summer lineup of mini watermelons, cantaloupes, and honeydew melons. 

After more than half a century filled with fresh fruit and vegetables, the Boston Market Terminal’s docks, platforms, bays and aisles are now hollowed out.

Devens, Mass.-based Little Leaf Farms has raised $90 million in debt and equity financing to build new East Coast sites to supply large retailers and foodservice providers.

Mount Laurel, N.J.-based RLS Logistics, through its affiliate RLS Partners, has unveiled plans to develop an 83,000 square-foot, temperature-controlled facility in central Massachusetts. 

The New England Produce Council has rescheduled its 24th annual golf tournament to Oct. 6.

Boston-based Costa Fruit & Produce is joining a growing list of foodservice wholesales selling directly to consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The new coronavirus has motivated precautions such as temperature checks for employees entering facilities and delayed the expansion of Little Leaf Farms, Devens, Mass., 35 miles outside of Boston.

Indoor farming companies made the inaugural FoodTech 500 list, created to rate and celebrate companies showing a successful trifecta of food, sustainability and technology.

BOSTON — Rich Dachman had two goals at the keynote speech he presented at the New England Produce Council’s 20th anniversary Produce, Floral and Foodservice Expo.

BOSTON — Produce professionals from near and far delved into the relationship business at the New England Produce Council’s Produce, Floral and Foodservice Expo, celebrating its 20th anniversary.

BOSTON — The foundations of commodity business are crumbling, Steve Lutz told a packed room at the New England Produce Council’s Produce, Floral and Foodservice Expo in Boston.

BOSTON — This Northeast U.S. region marked by wealth, smaller independent retailers, ethnic diversity and high-end foodservice keeps adjusting to today’s challenges to feed its people and those beyond its borders.

We heard a lot of good things about the nearby Market Basket location while touring the Boston Market Terminal and New England Produce Center — so we stopped by ourselves to check out why it got such high praise.

Industry notable Steve Lutz will be a speaker at the New England Produce Council’s Produce, Floral & Food Service Expo 2019.

Your life could change forever if you’re a college student chosen to attend the New England Produce Council’s Expo Sept. 18-19.

Although regional produce conferences have a broader reach than their namesake areas, there’s something about keeping it local, simple and intimate that appeals to participants.

BOSTON — To get familiar with the Boston area fresh produce market, you have to visit the two centers of activity, side-by-side in Chelsea and Everett, both nestled near Boston.

Chelsea, Mass.-based Morning Kiss Organic — which has expanded its program with organic kiwis and pears, available year-round — will exhibit at the Organic Produce Summit July 10-11 in Monterey, Calif. 

Brockton, Mass.-based Concord Foods is launching three Fresh Success vegetable seasoning mixes.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — How did the inaugural New England Organic Produce Conference go? The Packer's Northeast editor Amy Sowder asks the organizers.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Backed by exhaustive data on the organic segment, Matt Lally challenged produce industry members to capitalize on trends that elevate organic food.

Salad greens grower BrightFarms, Irvington, N.Y., will add three greenhouse farms in Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina, breaking ground in each location by the end of 2019 to start production in spring 2020.

On the heels of a $40 million joint venture and a new office in Dubai, Sonia Lo is fighting for what she calls digital distributed agriculture, an emerging industry-wide infrastructure that works with indoor farms. 

It’s an unnecessary hassle when parts snap off and forklifts puncture the bins used in harvesting and packing fresh produce, said Mike Begin, Northeast regional sales manager of Decade Products LLC, Grand Rapids, Mich.

The American cranberry industry is one of the biggest losers so far in the escalating trade dispute between the European Union and the U.S.

The American cranberry industry is one of the biggest losers so far in the escalating trade dispute between the European Union and the U.S.