Northeast (U.S.)
New York City-based vertical grower Bowery Farming has placed its products in 275 Safeway and Acme stores in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
As part of Newport, Calif.-based Zespri North America’s expansion plan, the company will establish a New York office in 2022 to supplement its West Coast presence.
The National Association of Perishable Agricultural Receivers annual golf tournament honoring the memory of produce industry leader Pete Class is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. May 8.
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.
Move over, blueberry pie: Chelsea Consalo, executive vice president of Consalo Family Farms and Fresh Wave, Vineland, N.J., loves to bake this blueberry pie.
Yes! Apples, the woman-owned and New York-grown apple brand of New York Apple Sales, is one of more than 100 brands showcased at Pop Up Grocer – possibly one of the first traveling pop-up grocery stores.
While many U.S. regions were stalled by record-setting cold snaps, heavy snowstorms and freezing rains, the Northeast is emerging from a long winter with good conditions for a strong start to apple season.
The flip side to crazy freight rates is that Northeast customers may look more to Jersey Fresh produce this summer and fall rather than pay for a truck to come from the West, said New Jersey produce professionals.
NEW YORK — Vertical indoor grower Bowery Farming has secured $300 million in a round led by Fidelity Management & Research Co., totaling more than $472 million of funding to date.
Introducing fresh produce to young school children benefits growers, retailers, children and their families — and programs that do this work have struggled to continue this mission while schooling was remote-based.
Richard “RJ” Durante chatted on his cell phone while riding in the cab of the Nardella Produce truck from the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market to deliver to Pie Lady Café in Moorestown, N.J.
For those transitioning back into social life out in the real world, a networking golf event is ideal.
Lafayette, N.J.-based Element Farms completed construction and onboarding at its first facility and has revealed expansion plans: a 2.5-acre greenhouse designed specifically for growing baby spinach year-round.
Bronx, N.Y.-based Baldor Specialty Foods expanded its Urban Roots retail line with three ready-to-eat, plant-based, healthy snacks — for adults, but children can eat them too, if they want.
Retail solutions from the pandemic may remain longterm — a more diversified supplier base, fewer stock-keeping units and technology to replace human labor, said Martha Hilton of Wegmans Food Markets.
After almost half a century, Mary Ellen Burris has retired from Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans Food Markets as senior vice president of consumer affairs.
Bronx, N.Y.-based Hunts Point Produce Market labor union workers are on strike over a wage dispute.
NEW YORK — Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx will be closed for buying until 7 a.m. Feb. 2 during the winter snow storm blanketing New York and the surrounding northeastern region.
The former president and CEO of the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market, Caesar “Sonny” DiCrecchio, 60, of Voorhees, N.J., is charged with stealing more than $7.8 million from his employer.
LeadNY, a New York leadership development program, is accepting applications for its next class of northeastern leaders in food, agriculture and natural resources.
Oishii, the producer of a much-hyped seedless, creamy, premium strawberry grown at a Kearny, N.J.-based commercial-scale indoor vertical farm, has closed in on $50 million in funding.
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture’s new produce safety website has launched to help professionals abide by the Food Safety Modernization Act, including the Produce Safety Rule.
Foodlink has purchased 3.6 million pounds of surplus food from New York farmers since the beginning of the Nourish New York program.
A New York leadership development program is accepting applications for its next class of leaders in the food, agriculture and natural resources sectors of the Northeast.
A New York leadership development program is accepting applications for its next class of leaders in the food, agriculture and natural resources sectors of the Northeast.
New York City-based vertical grower Bowery Farming has opened Farm X, an innovation hub for plant science in Kearny, N.J., next to Bowery’s original R&D Center of Excellence and first commercial farm.
Thumbs, at your mark (on your phone): The 2021 social media challenge, #JerseyFreshisCOOLER, has kicked off.
It’s no secret the indoor agriculture sector is exploding with startups and existing companies expanding and gaining investments, some going public. But how to scale up wisely amid all this excitement?
New York-based Bowery Farming is developing plans with the state of Pennsylvania to build an industrial site in Bethlehem, Pa., into one of its vertical farms for year-round greens.
NEW YORK — There has been no pause in promoting New York apples since the COVID-19 pandemic stalled normal life in the state and its eponymous city’s usual frenetic business activity.