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IFCO Systems, a global leader in reusable plastic containers for fresh products, released a study confirming RPCs as a sustainable packaging option.
The report shows the IFCO solution generates 82 percent less solid waste, consumes 92 percent less water, requires 49 percent lower energy demand and lowers ozone depletion by 76 percent for a weighted average of 10 top produce commodities compared with shipping the same amount...
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Today's Headlines
- PAIA releases category management plan
- Key Food announces new store openings
- Southern Specialties names VP of operations
- Produce growers team with Sony Pictures and Feeding America on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 campaign
- Black Gold Farms and McCormick Produce Partners launch new product
- iGPS files for bankruptcy protection, reorganization moving forward
- Roche Bros. bringing European-style store to historical site
- 2013 New Jersey blueberry season expected to produce the pick of the crop
Retailers, growers join Produce for Kids to provide $4 million in donations to charities in a decade
Produce for Kids has donated more than $4.1 million to children’s charitable concerns, including the Children’s Miracle Network of Hospitals and PBS for Kids. The program brings grower-shippers and retailers together to help raise funds that stay in the local community.
PFK started as a one-time spring...
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What's New
Results of a recent study conducted by researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Western Human Nutrition Center scientifically support anecdotal information that consumption of sweet Bing cherries significantly decreases circulating concentrations of specific inflammatory biomarkers in human blood.
“It represents seven years of research and work by the...
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A new produce company has opened in southern New Jersey with some familiar names at the helm.
Jonathan Consalo and Robert Consalo Jr., formerly with Wm. Consalo & Sons in Vineland, NJ, are the new owners of Vivid Fruit & Produce LLC. It officially opened April 15 but started to move product around May 5, Jonathan — known as Jon — told The Produce News...
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Oneonta Starr Ranch Growers, based in Wenatchee, WA, announced the addition of ELLIE TUCKER to its domestic and organic sales team on June 3.
Tucker, a Washington native who grew up on a Wenatchee pear orchard, is following her family’s tradition of working in the fruit industry.
Prior to joining OSRG,...
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In the Trenches: Will Iceberg lettuce make a comeback?
In my area, it is somewhat unusual to find a wedge of Iceberg on restaurant menus anymore. However, we happen to have a local rest...
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Jersey Fresh draws crowd to EPC
Al Murray, New Jersey’s assistant secretary of agriculture, with Bonnie Lundblad of Sunny Valley International.
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