Produce - General
The Center for Produce Safety will embark on another campaign in the next year to raise funds for the group’s food safety research efforts.
We all know there is no food safety “kill step” for fresh produce consumed in a raw state.
The Organic Farming Research Foundation and the Organic Seed Alliance have been given a $500,000 grant through the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Organic Research and Extension Initiative.
London Fruit Inc., Pharr, Texas, has hired Amanda Horney as a sales representative in the Midwest.
The following two charts tell the relative stories of U.S. fruit and vegetables exports and imports.
Produce wholesalers at the Raleigh (N.C.) State Farmers Market may be booted from their space when a master plan for redesigning the property and surrounding land comes to fruition.
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.
Monterey Mushrooms plans to feature its vitamin D mushroom line at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit in Anaheim, Calif.
Southeast Produce Council members provided a nutritious pit stop for more than 2,200 Walk For Winnie participants.
For the first time this season, Frieda’s is offering a collection of limited-time holiday line of alliums, with pearl onions, cipolline onions and 6-ounce shallots in festive clamshells.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Mark Wahlberg played him in the movie, “Invincible.” Nobody got past this fan-turned-wide NFL receiver, who captured the crowd at the Eastern Produce Council tailgate event.
Nashville, N.C.-based Nash Produce is adding to its Mr. Yam brand lineup.
The U.S. Apple Association has launched its 2019-20 Apples4Ed initiative.
The living isn’t so easy during the summertime for U.S. and backyard tomato marketers.
The Produce Marketing Association will honor Rich Dachman and Vic Smith with leadership awards at Fresh Summit in Anaheim, Calif.
Sicar Farms has opened its new Mission, Texas, facility, with cooler capacity of 85,000 square feet, 21 loading docks, and office space.
Take a look at U.S. exports of fruit to China over the past five years or so.
Owyhee Produce, Nyssa, Ore., is taking the sustainable packaging trend to the next level, by growing its own packaging.
Trade problems continue to linger for U.S. importers and exporters.
U.S. importers of European citrus will soon have to pay an additional 25% tariff after the World Trade Organization sided with the U.S. in its dispute with the European Union over illegal subsidies to Airbus.
A University of Florida Extension agent for almost four decades whose work focused on citrus is being inducted into the Florida Agriculture Hall of Fame.
Leo Baribeau, who was president of Star Produce and active in the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, has died.
Fairfield, N.J.-based Crispy Green Inc., maker of Crispy Fruit freeze-dried fruit snacks, plans to showcase two new flavors at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.
Indoor grower BrightFarms, Irvington, N.Y., is using blockchain technology to trace its products.
Retaliatory trade tariffs continue to hurt U.S. fruit exports.
Produce Lovers, a vertically-integrated grower that ships blueberries from the Mexican state of Jalisco, is shipping conventional and organic berries through mid-June.
Avocados are kind of a big deal. We all knew that, of course, but take a peek at the chart below and you will see it in visual terms.
Florida tomato volume remains steady, while quality is holding strong.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on businesses in Florida, Michigan and Texas for violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
Mann Packing Co. is recalling products in the U.S. and Canada after federal health agencies in the two countries notified the company of a potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes.