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While the rest of the country will be glued to their television sets cheering on team USA in the Winter Olympics this month, the associates at Tops Friendly Markets are gearing up for their own Olympics, with a twist.  Over the course of the next several weeks, associates across Tops’ three-state imprint will be challenging one another to a produce themed Olympic competition to see will who will bring home the gold.

Procurant, a cloud-based software company transforming the global food supply chain, released Procurant Connect, a new module within the Procurant One platform. The new module consolidates critical third-party information for retail buyers and their trading partners and provides quick access to this information during the procurement process. Procurant Connect builds on Procurant One’s open network architecture, providing a hub for produce supply chain data that can be easily customized and pe...

The world has entered the third wave of COVID-19 and the pandemic continues to challenge not only the health system but also the market and the economy. Salix Fruits, a leading company in the import and export of fresh fruits, anticipates the obstacles and difficulties that logistics will bring in 2022 and puts operations as a priority for the company.

The New Zealand apple and pear season is approaching harvest, and growers have good reasons to be positive and optimistic, according to Vanguard International.

As strawberry season begins to unfold in California, so does the beginning of volunteer season by the Bobalu staff.  Typically, volunteering is done without much fanfare, just because it is the right thing to do.   However, this year Anthony Gallino made the front page of the Monterey Herald for his work behind the scenes.

Freska Produce International has completed the construction of three ripening rooms capable of ripening three loads simultaneously at its Oxnard, CA, facility for use with mangos and avocados. “These Ripening rooms are state-of-the-art and will benefit our end users,” said Jesus (Chuy) Loza of Freska Produce. The rooms completed in January 2022 use Thermal Tech Ripening technology capable of ripening the company's mangos and avocados.

Harps Food Stores Inc. has appointed J. Max Van Hoose to president. Van Hoose is a northwest Arkansas native and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1991 with a degree in industrial engineering. In 1997 after earning his MBA at the University of Kansas, Van Hoose returned to Arkansas to join Harps Food Stores as director of construction and equipment.  In 2002 he was named vice president of store planning and then later to executive vice president.

Watermelon is a unique fruit with compounds that may have health effects throughout the body, supporting normal cardiovascular and metabolic health. According to a new comprehensive review of the scientific literature on watermelon, eating watermelon regularly may help promote health. This research paper, authored by Britt Burton-Freeman and colleagues from Illinois Institute of Technology was recently published in the journal Current Atherosclerosis Reports.

PanAmerican Seed® is pleased to continue its charitable give-back to less widely known causes through annual donations on behalf of Beacon® Impatiens. The disease-resistant Beacon series has brought light – and happiness – back to shade gardens worldwide.

Over the past seven years, Joe Bernardi, president of Bernardi & Associates Inc., and his family have raised more than half a million dollars for charities through the Kayla Bernardi BEE Positive Foundation. “It really is more than monetary,” said Cathie Bernardi.  “It is about how many lives we can touch, and how far we can spread Kayla’s BEE Positive message.”