Produce - General
The Alliance for Food and Farming’s pesticide residue calculator was given a prominent mention in a recent Food Network article.
Los Alamitos, Calif.- based Frieda’s Specialty Produce is promoting its fresh fruits and vegetables for back-to-school shopping trips.
A study commissioned by the Hass Avocado Board found that promotion programs have been a worthwhile investment for producers and importers of the fruit.
Boasting nearly a 20% increase compared with the 2018 crop, this year’s Washington fresh apple crop is estimated at 137.3 million boxes.
The Quebec Produce Marketing Association signed an annual partnership agreement with financial institution Desjardins to support its Cultivating the Next-Generation program, part of the Next-Generation Network.
Hop on tour with us to see what’s happening and what buyers want at the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market.
The latest estimate for the 2019 Northwest pear crop is up 8% from the early May forecast.
The last time we reviewed industry answers to The Packer’s 125 survey, we asked a broad question about industry innovations and evolution in the next 25 years.
The last time we reviewed industry answers to The Packer’s 125 survey, we asked a broad question about industry innovations and evolution in the next 25 years.
Here is a quick look at some exports numbers in the July-June period for the last handful of years.
A survey commissioned by Little Potato Co. found that 55% of Americans rank potatoes as their favorite comfort food.
The Packer’s Editor Tom Karst and Retail Editor Ashley Nickle collected these video interviews July 27 on the floor of the 2019 Produce Marketing Association’s Foodservice Conference and Expo in Monterey, Calif.
Golden Sun Marketing has promoted Naba Bakar to director of marketing.
The U.S. Department of Labor has signed a bi-lateral cooperative agreement with Guatemala to improve transparency, accountability, and worker safety in the H-2A visa program for agricultural workers from Guatemala.
New York apples are entering the home stretch and conditions are near perfect, one marketer reports.
Retail scan data from IRI for the July 2018 through the June 2019 marketing year reveals that total potato sales increased in dollars by 2% while sales volume declined by 1%.
To the profound disappointment of U.S. fruit exporters, the tit-for-tat trade war with China shows no signs of ending soon.
Banana supplies should be steady, and sales look favorable for the next several months, grower-shippers say.
The Port of Oakland is celebrating a construction project on a new logistics facility that’s designed to reduce truck travel times and cost.
The Produce for Better Health Foundation is bringing more than 20 retail dietitians to its 2019 Education2Action Retail Dietitian Event at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has stepped forward to fight the spread of Tropical Race 4 (TR4) strain of fusarium wilt in Latin American and Caribbean banana-growing regions.
A company that makes mesh using resins from sugarcane is promoting its use as a sustainable option for produce packaging.
Pamela Northam, wife of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, and Bettina Ring, Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, celebrated National Apple Month and the peak of the state’s apple harvest season.
Walmart has committed $4 million to help fight food insecurity in Texas, and nearly $1.3 million will go to fresh produce-focused nonprofit Brighter Bites.
James Griffin, chief operating officer and chief technology officer at Fleet Advantage, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been recognized by a Florida business publication.
iTradeNetwork, which recently announced plans to offer its services free to select growers and shippers to advance traceability efforts in the industry, has scheduled a web seminar to discuss its plans.
Philadelphia-based AgroFresh Solutions’ FreshCloud Predictive Screening system has added capabilities to help Honeycrisp apple growers.
Clear Labs’ Clear Safety platform has received Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) Performance Tested Methods certification for genus listeria and Listeria monocytogenes testing.
The Food and Drug Administration has released an updated version of the Food Defense Plan Builder.