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The Fresh Produce & Floral Council announced its incoming 2022 board of directors, outgoing directors and congratulated the 2021 Apprentice Class. Traditionally, the departing and incoming chairs would be announced and pass the gavel at the FPFC Dinner Dance; however, its dinner dance has now been rescheduled, set for May 21, at the Langham Pasadena Hotel.
Organic endive seeing strength in 2020 Supplies of California endives are slightly less than last year at this time. “But in the environment we’re in, we have plenty,” says David Moen of California Endive Farms in Vista, California. “The foodservice segment is really struggling still though retail demand is strong and hasn’t gone down.” He adds that as the company went into the holiday season, it factored in where it thought COVID-19 would be in terms of its affect on consumers and eating. “But we also had the Thanksgiving time period. We took a bit of risk to have some product ...