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The Chilean citrus season kicked off the week of April 11 as the first shipment of clementines set sail for the U.S. market. Chile will be supplying clementines, mandarins, navels and lemons to the U.S. market, with promotional support starting in June and continuing through October. The current total Chilean citrus forecast across categories is as follows:  

Sunrise Logistics, which is under the umbrella of the Four Seasons Family of Cos., is poised to open a major warehouse expansion at its headquarters in Ephrata, PA, in June.

Publix and Instacart are debuting 15-minute delivery in Miami powered by Instacart’s nano-fulfillment solution, Carrot Warehouses. Starting today and rolling out over the coming weeks, customers in select Miami neighborhoods will be able to have a wide range of fresh produce, pantry staples, household goods and more delivered from Publix in as fast as 15 minutes, whether it’s early morning or late night. Publix is the first grocer to collaborate with Instacart on new fulfillment models throu...

GRAPEVINE, TX — Citing the tremendous potential that lies ahead for imports of Mexican produce, Fortune Growers held a press conference April 23 during the Viva Fresh Expo, here, to lay out its plans to bring further efficiencies to its network. With a panel of industry and government officials, the press conference was kicked off by Dante Galeazzi, president and CEO of the Texas International Produce Association, who laid the foundation of where things stand with regard to cross-border trade.

The number of flavor combinations when it comes to cooking pasta recipes seems endless but this stuffed shell pasta bake may soon become a staple in your weekday line-up. 

Flavor 1st Growers & Packers grows and packs more than 30 different varieties of produce, all of which are tracked from field-to-fork using state-of-the-art distribution programs, labeling and procedures. As Flavor 1st enters the second quarter of 2022, its planning plantings, local programs for summer deals and getting ground ready on its summer farms as it looks forward to a successful summer after a promising 2021.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on five 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 an...

Every year, more than eight million tons of plastic waste escapes into the world’s oceans, the equivalent of setting five garbage bags full of trash on every foot of coastline around the globe. What if there was a platform to stop ocean plastic and at the same time help alleviate poverty through a global recycling ecosystem? That is the ambitious goal of Plastic Bank and its founder David Katz, who will offer a keynote presentation at OPS 2022, Empowering the World to Stop Ocean Plastic.

Legend Produce, a leading grower and marketer of melons, continues to expand its product offerings by working closely with customers, seed breeders and growers alike. The Arizona-based company, together with its partners, conducts over 50 trials per year with the goal of bringing new products to market.

It's sweet corn time once again and it's looking good. After some cold weather affected the sweet corn crop in Florida, better yields are expected.