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In recent seasons, Divine Flavor and its growing locations at Grupo ALTA have been converting all their operations into centralized packing facilities. As the company has grown into one of the largest suppliers of Mexican table grapes, these additions to its infrastructure have immediately contributed to its ability to pack multiple presentations for various clients at the same time.

As the Pacific Northwest emerges from some of the most intense climatic conditions in recent years, Oppy has a positive outlook for the upcoming Orchard View cherry season.

After a busy week, cooking dinner can be the last thing on your mind and most likely you’ve got your favorite go-to restaurants that you call for takeout. Try this super easy-to-make Thai Coconut Curry Chicken recipe that tastes JUST as good as ordering out but is full of fresh ingredients and vegetables. 

Lipman Family Farms CEO Kent Shoemaker intends to retire in 2023 after 13 years at the helm of the company. Shoemaker will remain in his role until a successor has been confirmed and fully transitioned.

As the 2022 New Jersey spring produce season was getting started, Sonny Boy Produce added a familiar name to the company. “We’ve teamed up with my uncle Bob Consalo,” Thomas Consalo, president of Sonny Boy Produce, told The Produce News at the end of April. “He’s come aboard for this spring. He started in late March, and he’s a vice president, doing sales and marketing for the most part.” Bob Consalo, 58, “brings at least 40 years experience in the business,” said Thomas Consal...

Bolthouse Farms and Starbucks entered into a definitive agreement for Bolthouse Farms to acquire the brand and business of Evolution Fresh. The employees that support the business will also transition to Bolthouse Farms later this year upon close of the transaction.

Brighter Bites has partnered with DoorDash via its Project DASH initiative to increase fresh produce accessibility to children and their families in New York City, Houston, and Washington, DC.

Over this is past winter, New Jersey had “some nice hard freezes, which is always good, and potato planting got started pretty much on time with the mild spring,” according to Ron Budd, vice president of Gloucester County Packing Corp. “We started the third week of March with our planting of potatoes,” he told The Produce News Monday, May 2. “I think most guys just finished up this past weekend.” Budd then provided his estimates on the start dates for the coming season.

Conventional grocery stores in the top-performing quartile generated average weekly online grocery sales of $43,895, 6.3 times higher than the median sales of $6,934 for rest of the stores, according to the Brick Meets Click eGrocery Performance Benchmarking 2021 Wave.

The Food & Drug Administration, along with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, as well as Canadian, state and local partners are investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the United States and Canada potentially linked to fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo and HEB, purchased between March 5 and April 25.