Produce - General
The extensive salad portfolio of Charlotte, N.C.-based Dole Food Co. continues to grow, with more additions coming this summer and others scheduled for later in the year.
New packaging is coming for Charleston, S.C.-based hydroponic leafy greens grower Vertical Roots.
Rockingham, Va.-based Shenandoah Growers has new prefilled shippers available for its living herbs.
Carpinteria, Calif.-based Hollandia Produce, which markets the Pete’s brand, has a new packaged salad line called Greenhouse Fresh.
Toronto, Ontario-based Reunion Foods, which markets plant-based brand Mother Raw, has launched three more salad dressing varieties and plans to launch a new line of dips this summer.
Bancroft, Wis.-based RPE will soon roll out a new compostable bag for its potatoes.
Foodlink has purchased 3.6 million pounds of surplus food from New York farmers since the beginning of the Nourish New York program.
In the spring of 2020, we were challenged with restaurants closing and families at home swinging open cabinet doors and pantries to figure out their next meal.
Touching more than 30 commodities, the Got To Be NC initiative promotes North Carolina-grown fresh produce and other farm goods to buyers around the corner and across the ocean.
Welcome to The Packer’s Fresh Take, a new column featuring advice and inspiration from leaders and innovators in the produce industry, in their own words.
Irvine, Calif.-based Western Growers has selected 13 companies for the first cohort of its Global Harvest Automation Initiative, a project that aims to automate 50% of specialty crop harvest within 10 years.
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.
With deep roots in the state, Michelle Grainger was a natural fit for the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission when she hired as executive director in August last year.
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Washington state’s leading agricultural groups are appealing to Gov. Inslee to repeal recently renewed Covid-19 emergency rules for farm workers using temporary housing.
The California Fresh Fruit Association reacted to Governor Gavin Newsom’s “$100 Billion California Comeback Plan”, which will allocate a portion of funding to support the food and agricultural industry.
Corona, Calif.-based Veg-Fresh Farms expands its berry department with two new additions: Christian Cardenas and Jay Carreon managing blueberries and strawberries under the Crystal Cove Berry Farms brand.
The first estimate from Northwest Cherries pegs the 2021 crop at 23.79 million cartons, up 20% from 19.83 million cartons in 2020 and up 2% from 2019.
Now and again and ever since I can remember, there have been discussions about whether U.S. workers want to do the hard work of harvesting artichokes, picking tomatoes, or climbing a tree to pick apples.
The Southeast Produce Council held its first virtual Produce Inspection Training course session within the SEPC Virtual Garden.
Hazel Technologies Inc., has announced a new partnership with Specialty Crop Co., the world’s largest fig grower and producer of pistachios, almonds, pomegranates, citrus, kiwi and persimmons.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Fresh Produce Inc. (Fresh Produce), Dallas, Texas, for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
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.
Retail fresh produce sales totaled $5.4 billion in April, down 3.6% from 2020 but up 10.3% from 2019.
The Produce Marketing Association and the United Fresh Produce Association have won member support to move forward in creating a single new organization representing the global produce and floral communities.
Pear Bureau Northwest is excited to welcome Michele Hoard to the company as the new Regional Marketing Manager for the Midwest region.
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.
Letters of Interest are due June 17 from people who have ideas on how to make the New York apple industry more competitive.
Since the new year, asparagus shipments from Peru to PortMiami have continued to grow after last year’s record, continuing to increase in 2021.
Side Delights shares farming insights from their Network of family-owned farms and why shoppers prefer locally grown, family-farmed food