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Bonduelle Fresh Americas, home of Ready Pac Bistro, is now a Certified B Corporation, leading the fresh salad produce industry in the global movement for an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy. Certified B Corporations, or B Corps, are companies verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. The achievement marks a major milestone in the company’s long-term vision to reshape the world’s food system for the health ...

US Foods Holding Corp. donated nearly $13 million in food and supplies, the equivalent of approximately 6 million meals or more than 265 truckloads of product, through its 2022 annual corporate hunger-relief campaigns. Since 2007, the company has donated more than 165 million pounds of food and supplies to aid community hunger-relief efforts.

Food Lion Feeds, in partnership with its customers, helped provide 5.4 million meals to help nourish neighbors through its annual Holidays Without Hunger campaign. The initiative benefits Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, and its 33 local Feeding America member food banks as well as hundreds of partner feeding agencies throughout Food Lion’s 10-state operating area. Food Lion Feeds was founded in 2014 by Food Lion to address food insecurity in the tow...

AppHarvest has entered an agreement with Mastronardi Berea LLC, a joint venture between Mastronardi Produce and COFRA Holding, for the sale-leaseback of its Berea, KY, high-tech indoor farm for leafy greens for approximately $127 million with an initial lease rate of 7.5 percent over 10 years, with four renewal terms of five years each.

The recent winter storm has impacted much of the country produce supply. Areas such as Florida, which usually doesn’t have to deal with freezing temperatures, scrambled to protect crops.

As much as we all love heading out for dinner or picking up delicious Thai takeout, I’m here to share this easy and delicious recipe to make a healthy homemade Beef Pad Thai 

Brighter Bites is partnering with Sunkist to help improve the health of students and families in the Bakersfield, CA, area. Bakersfield serves as Brighter Bites’ third location in California, following Salinas (2021) and Los Angeles (2022). In early December Sunkist began providing monthly donations of citrus to the Brighter Bites Bakersfield locations, helping to provide families with weekly access to fresh produce at no cost.

While pockets of the nation were devastated by the late December cold front that enveloped much of the country and dipped into Mexico, it does not appear to have delivered a big blow to the supply-demand curve in terms of the fresh produce industry. At least that was the view from various industry members around the country.

As part of the West Pak Cares committee community involvement program, West Pak Avocado of Murrieta, CA, donated a load of 134,500 avocados to Brighter Bites, a Houston-based nonprofit that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables directly into families' hands. The organization has provided more than 50 million pounds of produce and hundreds of thousands of nutrition education materials to more than 500,000 individuals in Texas, California, Florida, New York and Washington, DC.

The Southeast Produce Council has named Faye Westfall, a longtime member of the fresh produce industry who has been directly involved with the council since its earliest days, to the SEPC board of governors.