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Rouses Markets and Sunkist Growers have earned the official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the largest display of citrus fruits. Shipped directly from California’s citrus groves, the display features over 40,000 pounds of fresh Sunkist Navel, Blood and Cara Cara oranges, as well as Sunkist California mandarins, lemons, grapefruit, and Minneola tangelos. 

Biome Makers Inc., a global SoilTech leader, announced updates to its biological soil analysis: BeCrop. Growers used to have to wait until after the growing season to determine the success of their crops, but now BeCrop provides an overview of the current soil performance, adding a biological dimension to the world of soil testing. BeCrop is the first digital soiltech platform delivering a functional crop specific analysis of the soil microbiome based on its genetic information.

The NC SweetPotato Commission was founded in 1961 with the mission of increasing consumer consumption of the North Carolina Sweetpotato. For the last 60 years, it has been doing this through the creation of consumer-targeted promotion and marketing campaigns — both domestically and internationally.

¡Yo Quiero! Brands, a Texas-based avocado, guacamole and dip company, is launching a new line of refrigerated Elote Corn Dips, just in time for Super Bowl weekend and the many parties that accompany that annual football event.

Square Roots, a technology leader in indoor farming, and Gordon Food Service, one of the largest food distributors in North America, today announced the opening of a new climate-controlled, indoor farm in Kenosha, WI.

Carlos Cortes Sr., the grower who commercially introduced organic bananas to the United States in 1974, has died. Mr. Cortes was the father of Mayra Velazquez de León, president and CEO of Organics Unlimited and GROW. In 1974, Mr. Cortes founded the Mexican-American Fruit Co., better known as MexAm. He began marketing organic bananas, which was an industry first for the U.S. market.

As of Jan. 25, the entry of Chilean plums under Systems Approach has been confirmed and published in the Federal Register, which is great news for U.S. retailers and consumers. The United States is the main destination for fresh fruit from Chile in terms of volume, with a 31 percent share of total fresh fruit shipments exported to this market. In the case of plums, during the 2019-20 season, Chile exported more than 2 million boxes to the U.S. market. Plums will be available through April.

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For five generations, Matthews Ridgeview Farms has been a leading grower of sweet potatoes, and has the ability to store and ship more than a million bushels a year.

As mangos continue to gain momentum nationally, catching up with the rest of the world as the most-consumed fruit, the Ataulfo mango varietal continues to experience rapid growth among diverse organic consumers who tend to be health-oriented, well-traveled, and have a more sophisticated palette and culinary repertoire.