Edwin Jerome Vick, who founded Vick Family Farms with his wife, Diane, died July 26. He was 73.

Mr. Vick was a leader of leaders. His voice for the agriculture industry was strong. He and his wife founded Vick Family Farms in 1975 and grew a successful operation from 25 acres to over 9,000 in nearly 50 years.

The National Mango Board has appointed Ramon Ojeda as its new executive director, replacing Manuel Michel, who earlier this month left his post of nine years to join the Colombia Avocado Board as its executive director.

Ojeda has served the NMB, based in Orlando, FL, for nearly three years as the operations director, with oversight of all financial, operational and administrative functions. He has been a crucial component to organizing the annual board meetings and key internal training opportunities to help strengthen the organization.

As the avocado industry continues to boom in sales and pop culture, Fresh Avocados – Love One Today, a leading science-based resource founded by the Hass Avocado Board, celebrates its 10th anniversary with news of continued big strides in elevating positive awareness for the health benefits of avocados, a proven driver for stimulating demand in the U.S.

More than a decade ago, the potato growers of Washington state determined that the best way to spend their promotion dollars was to spread the good story that agriculture has to tell.

Bread goes back as far as 30,000 years ago, but it was not until 1928 that bread was sliced on the first commercial machine in Missouri by Otto Rohwedder. Bakers at that time were skeptical about slicing bread, claiming it was just a fad.

In the sixth century B.C., a popular plant called lettuce was served in a leafy form on the tables of Peruvian kings. Today, this same lettuce has been nurtured into sophisticated packages of fresh-cut salad blends and displayed in produce departments for consumers.

In the era just before streaming service subscriptions emerged, and when CDs were purchased at malls, there was a groundbreaking and revolutionary time for music known as the Napster Age. While not as historically significant as the Bronze or Iron Age, those who lived through it remember it vividly.