Produce - General
Decorated Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn will give the keynote address at the Center for Growing Talent’s 2018 Women’s Fresh Perspectives Leadership Breakfast on Oct. 20.
Significant damage to North Carolina’s sweet potato crop is anticipated after Hurricane Florence pounded many areas of the state with double-digit rainfall totals.
Trade sources worry that U.S. exporters of fruit and other commodities may face inspection delays and other non-tariff barriers after the latest round of tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration.
Tony and Grammy award-winning performer Leslie Odom, Jr. is on the playbill of the 2018 Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit on Oct. 18.
The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas is launching the Women’s Leadership Invitational during its 50th fall convention, featuring women who inspire and lead the way in the produce industry.
Procacci Bros., Philadelphia, is celebrating its 70-year anniversary.
Philadelphia-based AgroFresh Solutions’ FreshCloud Predictive Screening system is designed to predict the risk of disorder development in particular produce varieties.
Perrysburg, Ohio-based Dillin Automation Systems Corp. has completed a Pallet Load Accumulation System for Double Diamond Fruit of Quincy, Wash.
Organically Grown Co.’s David Lively has been re-appointed to the Organic Trade Association’s board of directors.
Retail promotions efforts by the Idaho Potato Commission are off and running with the start of harvest, and the pace won’t let up much through the first of next year.
Peter Leifermann remembers working in the foodservice sector in Atlanta in the 1990s when importers were flying in hass avocados from Chile and mangoes in South Florida were priced at $15 per carton.
Brighter Bites Executive Director Sam Newman is scheduled to be the Dallas Fresh Food Association’s next luncheon speaker.
Miami, Fla.-based Crystal Valley Foods has begun imports of blueberries for the 2018-19 season.
Hispanic households are buying avocados at a rate nearly 50% above non-Hispanic households.
Sakata Seed America is raising awareness about the American Heart Association’s need for funds.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Pretty Lady grapes are available in new top-seal packaging options.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Pulling in about 21,000 attendees from 60 countries, the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit in Orlando was another smashing success.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Briefing members of the media Oct. 20, Robert Schueller, director of public relations at Los Angeles, Calif.-based World Variety Produce, covered a wide range of specialty produce trends.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Hazel Technologies is continuing its work with tropical fruit, stone fruit and more than 30 types of fresh produce, says Patrick Flynn, co-founder of Chicago, Ill., -based Hazel Technologies Inc.
Crop One Holdings, whose vertical farms company FreshBox Farms grows leafy greens, has added executives from The Giorgi Cos. Inc., parent of mushroom grower Giorgio Fresh, to its advisory board.
The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation has approved $1 million to expand corrugated packaging curriculum in the U.S.
He may be president and CEO of a major table grape grower-shipper, but it’s not unusual to see Merrill Dibble walking the vineyards conversing with workers.
Arnott Duncan, CEO of Duncan Family Farms, Buckeye, Ariz., couldn’t be more proud of his employees.
Customers of Natural Grocers raised $94,500 for Organic Farmers Association September.
Bob Stafford, manager of the Vidalia, Ga.-based Vidalia Onion Committee, says Vidalia sweet onions capture about 40% of the sweet onion category but the industry wants more.
With acreage expanding this year, the field-grown, proprietary-seed colored bell pepper branded Simply Sun is now grown year-round by L&M Farms, says Lee Anne Oxford, director of marketing for L&M Farms, Raleigh, N.C.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Mike Riley believes Compac’s Size Simulator can give fresh produce packing line operators optimal efficiency in delivering the best possible results by packing fruit in a virtual simulation.
Shipping point prices of romaine lettuce in December slid very low, from nearly $24 per carton early in the month to just $8 per carton late in the month.
A partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22 could stretch deep into January and could mean delays and trouble for the H-2A agricultural guest worker program used by produce growers.