Harris Teeter is launching a campaign designed to bring salad bars to schools in the Harris Teeter market communities to support Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. In collaboration with the United Fresh Produce Association Foundation, a founding partner of LMSB2S, Fresh Express, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chiquita Brands, and nine additional produce suppliers, Harris Teeter will donate salad bars to at least 10 schools. These salad bars will benefit more than 5,000 students by providing them a healthy lunch option filled with fresh produce.

Alamo, TX-based Fresh Tex Produce, a year-round shipper of tropical fruits and vegetables, as well as chili peppers and tomatoes out of Mexico, recently hired Rio Grande Valley native CHRIS HOFFMAN comes to the company after working for Glaziers for the past two years, handling outside sales. Mr.

ARMANDO PALACIOS, a Rio Grande Valley native, joined Alamo, TX-based Fresh Tex Produce after working in sales for six years at Azteca Milling, a producer of milled corn under the brand known as “Maseca,” under the position of executive sales. During his time at Azteca, Mr.

“We’ve got increases in everything” for the 2012 grape season in the San Joaquin Valley and will have additional increases in coming seasons, said Nick Dulcich, a partner in J.P. Dulcich & Sons in Delano, CA, and president of Sunlight International Sales Inc., the company’s sales arm. “We are growing as a company.”

The company’s volume was up last year and continues to build this year with young vineyards coming into fuller production.

In addition, there are young vineyards yet to come into production, and new planting continues.

This year, Oregonians will have an opportunity to find out just what makes Oregon agriculture so strong. The Oregon Department of Agriculture is helping residents make the connection through its traveling exhibit, “Telling the Oregon Agriculture Story,” at selected county fairs.

Wada Farms Marketing Group of Idaho Falls, ID, is teaming up with Worley & McCullough, a fourth-generation potato grower-shipper in Colorado's San Luis Valley.

Worley & McCullough will continue to operate its packingshed under its current name; however, under the partnership arrangement Wada will conduct the sales and marketing.