Until Wada Farms Marketing Group LLC, a major year-round shipper of potatoes and onions based in Idaho Falls, ID, “decided to get into the organic game” about five years ago, there was really nowhere in the industry that buyers could get everything they were looking for in the potato and onion categories in one place, said Eric Beck, Wada’s director of marketing.

With its network of 53 growing houses in the Pennsylvania cities of Oxford, West Grove and Landenberg, Mother Earth LLC has sustained its legacy in the organic mushroom industry.

After dealing with COVID-related challenges in 2020, this year, the company started on a high note, with business as strong as it’s ever been.

Giorgio® Foods, Inc. announces two new, bold, and delicious flavor additions of Smokehouse Bacon and Hot & Spicy Cajun Style to their popular existing Savory Wild™ Portabella Mushroom Jerky lineup.  These new recipes add to Giorgio’s current flavor lineup of Roasted Garlic & Black Pepper, Sweet Balsamic & Golden Fig, and Sesame, Ginger & Korean Chili, that were recently awarded the prestigious 2020 Backpacker Editor’s Choice Award.   

Mario (Chuff) D. Basciani, a mushroom industry pioneer whose work ethic, tenacity and passion for mushrooms made him a role model to farmers throughout the country, died Sunday, Sept. 13, surrounded by his loving family. He was 91.

Mr. Basciani was a second-generation mushroom farmer, founder of Basciani Foods Inc., and patriarch of the Basciani family. He is survived by his wife of over 70 years, Anna, his five children, 18 grandchildren, and 40 great-grandchildren.