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Today, the Southeast Produce Council released What’s New? From the Consumer View 2022 in one of two educational sessions at its fall show, Southern Innovations.

A three judge panel of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco affirmed the legality of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have the authority to recognize and certify growers using hydroponic organic production methods in a ruling issued yesterday.

The International Fresh Produce Association will participate in the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health on Sept. 28 in Washington, DC, as IFPA looks to be part of an effort to eliminate hunger and reduce diet-related disease by 2030.  The conference comes after IFPA released its Fruit and Vegetable Moonshot, an eight-point plan on a national nutrition strategy, to the White House earlier this year.

What’s on shoppers’ minds in these not-quite-yet-normal times? If you think of it like a shopping cart or basket, there’s a lot in there. There are the staples, like sustenance and nutrition. There are probably some novel things, based on a sense of food exploration or discovery. These days, there’s likely to be more items bought on sale, driven by the need or desire to cut costs during inflationary times.

In recognition of National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Trucco announced its Produce for Life 7 initiative, created in collaboration with Medrano to benefit child cancer research at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital.

A two-part ed intensive featuring the results of two recently released reports on organic farming and an in-depth workshop discussing how organic farmers can address current challenges has been announced as part of the 2022 Organic Grower Summit presented by Western Growers and OPN, slated for Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in Monterey, CA.

It’s no secret that Americans have been feeling the sting of high grocery costs for months. Aldi said record numbers of shoppers are heading to its stores rather than become accustomed to eyebrow-raising receipts at the end of every grocery trip. "We’re pleased to share that in the past year we have welcomed more than 1 million new households into our stores and experienced double-digit sales growth, proving the Aldi experience is one that resonates," the company said in a stateme...

With an Idaho potato harvest kick-off during the week of Aug. 8, Idaho Falls, ID-based Wada Farms is seeing what Director of Marketing Eric Beck termed an “unprecedented” market this 2022-23 season. Beck, who said in mid-September the grower-shipper operation was in “full force harvesting in all growing areas,” commented on current market conditions and demand.

Beginning in mid-October, the more than 75-year-old Northern Plains Potato Growers Association is switching things up. It will be known as the Northland Potatoes Growers Association.

Envy has picked up back-to-back awards in The Kitchn’s annual Kitchen Essentials: Grocery Edition awards – as a repeat winner in the Best in Produce 2022 category. The highly regarded awards recognize the best grocery products in every category, which are selected by editors of popular food and lifestyle media outlet Kitchn. Cecilia Flores Paez, T&G Global’s head of marketing for North America, said it fantastic to be recognized again as a must-have grocery item for 2022.