Latest Fresh Produce News & Insights

As part of the company’s plan to liquidate assets following a bankruptcy filing, it gave a 60-day notice to its workforce... Read More

Global Organic Produce Expo exhibitors share the highlights of their booth displays at the show... Read More

Buoyed by renewed interest in healthy produce, retailers say organic produce sales continue to grow and seem poised to continue throughout the year... Read More

Marketers recently shared the unique prospects that ample supply provides for retailers and consumers... Read More

The company failed to secure a high enough value for its assets through auction, the company said it plans to liquidate assets including 13,500 acres... Read More

With a large crop in apple-producing states, like Pennsylvania, marketers say there is a need to boost consumption. "That will take some time and some effort," said Chris Sandwick of Hess Bros. Fruit., Lancaster, Pa... Read More

Philadelphia-based Salix Fruits said its newest office in Singapore will help the company grow its presence in Asia... Read More

Company adds routes to the Northeast from Columbia, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to boost supplies of bananas, pineapples, dragon fruit, mangoes and limes... Read More

Patrick Mills joins the commission as retail promotion director for the West and Canada following Kent Beasley's retirement... Read More

The cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets has named Dan Funk as its new president and CEO... Read More

Despite weather challenges this season, growers “look hopeful for '24,” said Cynthia Haskins, president and CEO of New York Apples. “We have a good mix of different apple varieties that are out there ...”.. Read More

The company has promoted its senior category manager to oversee its fruit produce category... Read More

Michigan apple growers experienced some localized frost damage in the spring but still had a great growing year... Read More

These new members, which include Carmen Ponce of Tanimura & Antle, Chris Drew of Ocean Mist Farm and Kiana Amarel of BlazerWilkinsonGee, will serve a three-year term... Read More

After growers faced a year of weather extremes in 2022, Washington state rebounded in 2023, increasing production by about 38% year over year, according to the U.S. Apple Association... Read More

The university said the new cultivar — a cross of Honeycrisp with cripps pink — does not bruise and keeps its texture and flavor following months of cold storage... Read More

Chris Gerlach, USApple’s director of industry analytics, shared how this season draws parallels from a large crop in 2014-15... Read More

Failure to meet contract obligations and failure to pay reparations caused the department to sanction the businesses and principal operators and prevent them from working in the produce industry... Read More

In its November grocery shopping survey, Brick Meets Click/Mercatus found more U.S. households turned to mass retailers for major grocery purchases... Read More

Year-round grower-shipper and marketer of fresh fruit said adding production helps the company provide its PureHeart mini watermelon 52 weeks a year. .. Read More

In its latest apple holding report, the U.S. Apple Association said inventories are up 20% more than the five-year average and higher than this same time last year... Read More