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USDA adds standards for more colors of carrots

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is revising standards for grades of carrots to include more colors of carrots covered by the standards.

Jun 28, 2020 by Chris Koger #Produce (General), #Produce Crops, #Carrots

FDA seeks source of Fresh Express salad ingredients in recalls

(UPDATED/CORRECTED) Cyclospora infections linked to Fresh Express garden salads continue to rise and now include Walmart private-label bagged salads, including salad served at a North Dakota restaurant.

Jun 28, 2020 by Chris Koger #Produce (General), #Recall, #Outbreak, #Salad Mix, #Lettuce, #Cabbage, #Carrots, #Produce Retail

Newest FreshFacts report puts sales in COVID-19 context

The United Fresh Produce Association examines in its latest FreshFacts on Retail report how COVID-19 has affected first-quarter produce sales.

Jun 02, 2020 by Ashley Nickle #Produce (General), #Produce Retail, #Strawberries, #Blueberries, #Oranges, #Lemons, #Clementines, #Potatoes, #Onions, #Carrots, #PMG Data and Research

Latest numbers show gap persists between produce dollar, volume sales

Fresh produce sales remain noticeably higher than the same time last year as the coronavirus crisis continues into a second month.

Apr 14, 2020 by Ashley Nickle #Produce (General), #Produce Retail, #COVID-19, #Avocados, #Onions, #Carrots, #COVID-19

Grimmway donates truckloads of carrots during pandemic

Grimmway Farms, Bakersfield, Calif., has donated baby carrot snack packs to health care workers and baby and whole carrots to food banks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Apr 10, 2020 by Chris Koger #Produce (General), #COVID-19, #Carrots, #Social Responsibility, #COVID-19, #Social Responsibility

Bolthouse adds Arizona carrots with Rousseau Farming deal

Bolthouse Farms, Bakersfield, Calif., has entered into an agreement to purchase the carrot operations of Rousseau Farming Co., Tolleson, Ariz.

Mar 26, 2020 by Chris Koger #Produce (General), #Produce Crops, #Carrots, #Arizona

Soil Health Sows Success

California vegetable operation focuses on sustainability.

Feb 27, 2020 by Clinton Griffiths #Americas Conservation Ag Movement, #Soil Health, #Carrots

New Product Review: Rainbow Carrot Chips from Cal-Organic

Cal-Organic Farms, a division of Bakersfield, Calif.-based Grimmway Farms, will be introducing organic rainbow carrot chips for retail at the Southeast Produce Council’s Southern Exposure.

Feb 22, 2020 by Ashley Nickle #Produce (General), #Produce Retail, #SEPC, #Carrots, #Produce Products, #PMG Produce Products

What Bolthouse Farms is doing now that it’s independent

NEW YORK — The Bolthouse Farms gang is back together, and they’re pumping out new product lines that embody the new company mission: Plants powering people.

Feb 17, 2020 by Amy Sowder #Video, #Northeast (U.S.), #New York, #Carrots, #Produce (General)

Cal-Organic offers sweet red bunched carrots

Cal-Organic Farms is shipping bunches of organic red carrots from Coachella, Calif.

Feb 04, 2020 by Chris Koger #Produce Retail, #Carrots, #Organics