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The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance, a national coalition of more than 200 specialty crop organizations representing growers of fruits, vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, nursery plants and other products, has released its statement of principles for consideration of the 2023 Farm Bill.

Over the past two years, businesses have been facing a string of supply chain challenges, including lack of truck drivers and high gas prices — and those challenges are exacerbated by the perishable nature of the products in the produce and floral industries. The New England Produce Council held an educational session on supply chain challenges the morning of Aug. 25 at the council's annual Produce, Floral & Food Service Expo, which was held at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport, a ...

SUN VALLEY, ID – The Idaho Grower Shipper Association held its 94th annual convention Aug. 24-26 at the picturesque Sun Valley Resort, here. A highlight of the annual event was the Railroad Reception, hosted by Union Pacific, CSX and Watco.

At this point it seems almost inevitable. The United States is barreling toward a full-fledged recession. With a recession comes consumers hunt for a cheaper way to eat, which can negatively impact produce sales.  According to ProduceIQ, however, record heat is causing some supply challenges and many commodity prices have remained elevated.

The official start of autumn was just about five weeks away when The Produce News spoke to Frank Donio Inc. in mid-August about the season to date and the upcoming New Jersey fall produce season.

With more shoppers opting to save time by ordering groceries online, Food Lion is excited to announce the expansion of its Food Lion To Go grocery pick up service to 15 more stores in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee, beginning Aug. 29. Food Lion is offering shoppers their first pickup for free. The launch of this service comes just in time to make fall and holiday shopping even easier.

PickTrace has been selected as the Labor Management Solution of the Year in the 2022 AgTech Breakthrough Awards conducted by AgTech Breakthrough, which recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global agricultural and food technology markets today. PickTrace enables organizations to rapidly hire and re-hire their workforce by digitizing the I-9 and W-4 document completion and storage process, removing the need for paper onboarding packets and manual data entry of employee de...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. These sanctions include suspending the businesses’ PACA licenses and barring the principal operators of the businesses from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA. The following businesses a...

Braga Fresh appointed Eric Schwartz to the company’s board of directors. Schwartz is currently the CEO of Eckert Frozen Foods LLC. Prior past positions include CEO of United Vegetable Growers Cooperative; CEO of Patterson Vegetable Co. LLC; and president of Dole Worldwide Fresh Vegetables.

Strella, a freshness management company that builds technology to predict produce maturity, launched an automated quality management platform for retailers. To date, Strella has worked predominantly with apple and pear suppliers utilizing proprietary sensing technology to predict shelf life and optimize inventory management. For nearly four years, it has worked with some of the largest U.S. apple and pear suppliers to make maturity-based inventory decisions. It has monitored nearly 2 billion pie...