South Carolina
Thirteen agribusinesses in the state will share $200,000 to improve facilities, expand businesses and update offerings in their local communities.
Growers have embraced change by expanding varieties and adapting for the future.
American Farmland Trust is partnering with governmental agencies and advocacy groups in South Carolina to employ GIS mapping tools to predict areas at the highest risk of development in the state.
Walmart plans to build a high-tech distribution center for fresh and frozen groceries in Spartanburg County, S.C., set to open in 2024.
Sweet potatoes lead the list of top-dollar fruit and vegetable commodities in North Carolina and South Carolina, according to USDA agricultural statistics for 2022.
North Carolina and South Carolina are anything but small potatoes when it comes to peanut production.
A diminished peach crop hurt total fresh produce volumes in South Carolina in 2022, USDA statistics show.
The peach and vegetable grower-shipper has named Taylor Livingston as director or fresh packing operations and Jessica Williams as sales manager.
Ridge Spring, S.C.-based Titan Farms has unveiled a strategic partnership with CarbonCents, a technology firm specializing in carbon footprint tracking and reduction solutions.
A University of South Carolina study shows that residents of the state are eating more local food because of the Certified South Carolina program.
Marketing the spring harvest and stored produce of the Carolinas isn’t the same game these days.
In the Carolinas, spring and summer produce is an edible rainbow. And the harvest is looking good, growers say.
Multi-million dollar federal contracts have been awarded to three firms to provide fresh produce to military customers and select schools.
Crops in Florida were spared but Hurricane Dorian was still poised to dump big rains in coastal regions of the Carolinas on Sept. 5-6.
The Allen Lund Co. has promoted Michael Patrick to director of business intelligence and analytics.
Pelion, S.C.-based leafy green marketer WP Rawl has again helped to honor military heroes by participating in the Wreaths Across Americas’ Honor Fleet.
Titan Farms, Ridge Spring, S.C., and Harris Teeter, Matthews, N.C., have donated 219,000 pounds of peaches to food banks through the Peaches with a Purpose program over the past five years.
A $314 million ag-tech center — that will grow indoors, copack, distribute and sometimes process fresh greens, tomatoes, blueberries and other produce — is coming to South Carolina.
Titan Farms, premier grower of South Carolina peaches, is now shipping their ever-popular patriotic-themed, volume fill box named “America’s Peach.”
With harvest starting the first week of May, South Carolina is poised to offer buyers a good crop of peaches in 2021.
Lori Anne peaches are back in stores at select retailers nationwide.
Raleigh, N.C.-based L&M Companies has an ample supply of Carolina produce commodities in the months ahead, company leaders said.
Lori Anne Peaches are now available at select retailers nationwide, Ridge Spring, S.C.-based Titan Farms reports.
Spring typically brings a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables from the Carolinas, and this year is no exception, suppliers and marketers say.
The South Carolina Department of Agriculture is the featured guest at the next dinner meeting organized by the Eastern Produce Council.
South Carolina growers are promoting their crops to mid-Atlantic and Northeastern buyers as a seasonal alternative.
About two dozen retail, wholesale and foodservice produce buyers joined South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Commissioner of Agriculture Hugh Weathers for an agriculture summit.