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California Giant Berry Farms announced its People’s Choice winner and chef finalists of its 2022 Chef Invitational.   The finalists and their recipes are:   

Western Growers and S2G Ventures are now accepting applications for the 2022 AgSharks Competition, a unique event where startup companies pitch their innovations in front of a live audience of the world’s largest specialty crop producers to win a $250,000 minimum investment.

In addition to the return to school and busier family schedules for everyone, fall can mean a return to the day-to-day challenges of healthy meal planning. In response, Dole Food Co. Inc. created 15-Minute-Made Meals, a collection of the produce leader’s often-requested recipes that combine fresh fruit- and vegetable-based ingredients with prep times of 15 minutes or less to deliver easy, healthy and satiating options for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert.

As a West Coast leader in both the sweet and the hot pepper production, Baloian Farms said its chili pepper program will not disappoint — with varieties that range in heat from mild to hot and are always flavorful and always fresh.

Recent studies released by John Pezzuto and his team from Western New England University show “astonishing” effects of grape consumption and “remarkable” impacts on health and on lifespans of mice.

KeHE Distributors will unveil the expansion of its Aurora, CO, distribution center on Aug. 31.  

Navigating an economic slowdown and high inflation is tricky business. According to The Wall Street Journal, for Karns Foods, a family-run grocer in Mechanicsburg, PA, that means revising what it puts on the shelves — stocking smaller and less expensive items — among other things. Scott Karns, CEO of the 10-store chain, said the company is also comparing prices with those of its competitors much more often than in the past.

Washington blueberry growers are readying for a record-breaking blueberry season this summer. Eastern Washington is well under way picking and shipping to local grocery stores, restaurants, retail shops and across the globe. Western Washington will more than double the state’s yields as it enters production.

The spending bill recently passed by the Senate includes $4 billion in drought-relief funding for the Colorado River Basin. “We appreciate the determination of Senator Kyrsten Sinema and her colleagues to secure substantial new funding for drought-related priorities in the Colorado River Basin, which supports 5.7 million acres of irrigated agriculture including most of the nation’s winter vegetables as well as other high-value foods such as citrus and melons," said Western Growers Presi...

Calavo Growers Inc. named Helen Kurtz as its senior vice president and general manager of Calavo Prepared, the company’s prepared foods segment.