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Whole Foods Market’s global buyers and experts revealed the most anticipated and innovative food trends for 2020 in the retailer’s fifth annual trends predictions announcement. Regenerative agriculture, fresh snacks, meat-plant blends, plant-based prepared foods and West African foods are among the food influences and movements expected to take off in the next year.
Each year, more than 50 Whole Foods Market team members,...
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Today's Headlines
- SpongeBob and Bland Farms set to costar in the produce aisle
- Mucci Farms wins Best Sustainable Packaging Award at Fresh Summit 2019
- USDA issues $9.76 million PACA ruling
- Harris Teeter named 2019 Pear Retailer of the Year
- Mary Zink of Wegman’s named Mango Retailer of the Year
- USDA restricts PACA violators in California and Florida
- The food as medicine movement
- Big Y names new VP of fresh foods, district sales and merchandising mentor
What's New
Sunions will return later this fall and with more reasons not to cry than ever before. The game-changing onion will have four times the crop this year than last, making the sweet onion’s third season the strongest yet.
“With the success of last year, our growers made a significant expansion of acreage this year,” said Crop Sales Manager Lyndon Johnson. “With...
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Joining more than 175 brand owners and retailers that have added the How2Recycle label program to their products, Oppy aims to inspire families everywhere to recycle its produce packaging and make it easier to do so.
How2Recycle is a standardized on-package label program dedicated to reducing confusion over a product’s recyclability. Each label is unique in...
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The 2019-20 Produce Marketing Association board of directors took office Oct. 17 during PMA’s 2019 Fresh Summit Convention & Expo in Anaheim, CA. New Chair Joe Don Zetzsche, director of floral and BLOOMS for H-E-B, is joined on the board by six other officers and 32 directors.
“I am excited for...
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Fresh Summit exhibitors enchant customers with magical products
ANAHEIM, CA — The Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit 2019 took place Oct. 17-19, here, and since Anaheim ...
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Michael Sallin, Barbara Baker, Scott George, Veronique Sallin and Scott Deyoe of IMG Citrus.
Production to increase out of Coastal California
This week a warming trend is coming to coastal growing regions of California and will most likely cause production to increase. Th...
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