LEAD STORY
The North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission announced the winners of the "Savor Your Sweets" recipe contest, a promotion with independent restaurant operators in the Southeast inviting chefs and consumers to look at sweet potatoes in new ways.
The winners, Cuban Sweet Potato Tacos and Sweet Potato Rice Pudding, aren't typical sweet potato dishes, but Taqueria del Sol and The Kings Kitchen pushed contemporary thinking into...
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Today's Headlines
- Sally Erickson named Ready Pac Foods CFO
- Key Food opens newest location
- Safeway and Albertsons announce $9 billion merger
- Mango supplies could top 1 billion pounds this year
- California avocado crop down with later start, earlier finish expected
- Supply gap coming for California vegetables
- Hillary Clinton to deliver United Fresh-FMI keynote address
- Del Monte expands its tomato and vegetable program
What's New
Tim Spiech, chief operating officer of Spiech Farms, told The Produce News that the company recently completed its relocation to a new facility in Brooksville, FL, and it has ceased all operations at its previous Hudson, FL, location.
The new facility gives the company outstanding growth opportunities due to its large size and high-tech advancements.
“We are...
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It’s been a volatile winter for vegetable supplies as a series of East Coast storms has altered consumer buying habits. Carrots, like the other vegetable items from the West Coast, are affected though it manifests itself in demand rather than pricing.
“It has been a very strange demand situation for the past six weeks,” said Chris Smotherman, who sits on the...
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The Eastern Produce Council will honor Gordon M. Hochberg, vice president of The Produce News, with its 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award during its 46th annual dinner dance Saturday, April 5, at the Westmount Country Club in Woodland Park, NJ.
The EPC Lifetime Achievement Award is “an esteemed honor...
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From picking at the peak of ripeness, to polishing and preserving freshness, to packing, there are a lot of steps involved in making sure that "KIKU" brand apples are high in quality and exceptionally sweet.
Columbia Marketing International provided this new behind-the-scenes video of the journey that...
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Carrot sales continue to climb; supply outlook promising
Though it is considered a staple product and doesn’t generate an extreme amount of excitement, carrot sales have garnered consid...
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Produce for Kids hosts EPC meeting
Anna Weiss and Charlotte Cutler of Race-West.
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