Consalo Family Farms is a vertically integrated grower, packer, shipper, importer, and distributor and has been in the produce industry since 1927. The family-run company grows a full line of produce in New Jersey.

New Jersey Department of Agriculture Secretary Douglas Fisher attended the Mullica Hill Asparagus Festival on Saturday, May 14, where he delivered remarks and sampled offerings that featured Jersey Fresh asparagus.

Spring is an important time for growers in New Jersey, and the New Jersey Department of Agriculture does all it can to help them succeed — especially in a year like this one where so many challenges are impacting the industry.

The Eastern Produce Council and South Carolina celebrated their 50th anniversary together at TopGolf in Edison, NJ, on Tuesday, April 26. This meeting marked the 50th consecutive year SCDA came up to New Jersey to sponsor a meeting for the council.  Marianne Santo, EPC president and category manager of Wakefern Food Corp., welcomed the group and thanked the department for its decades of support.

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic, members of New Jersey's agricultural industry recently came together to celebrate and honor some of their own.

The New Jersey Agricultural Society held its annual gala Saturday, March 19, at The Boathouse at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, NJ, where the 2020 and 2022 awards were presented. (The 2020 gala was canceled the day before it was to be held, and no awards were presented in 2021.)

Back in mid-February, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture presented the Patrick J. Mullen Jersey Fresh Quality Grading Award to D'Ottavio Produce during the co-located conventions of New Jersey's State Board of Agriculture and the Vegetable Growers Association of New Jersey, held in Atlantic City, NJ.