ORLANDO, FL -- Sister companies Horton Fruit Co. and Grow Farms, based in Louisville, KY, are working together to help promote Kentucky-grown produce and preserve family farms.

Grow Farms, which was founded earlier this year and is a grower and distributor of high-quality regional foods, was the brainchild of Brian Knott, who oversees operations.

According to Mr. Knott, farming inputs are rising across the board, and without some assistance with marketing and distribution, growers are at risk of going out of business.

ORLANDO, FL -- The spring campaign of the Produce for Kids supplier-retail fundraising promotion set a record for the organization and pushed the money raised by the effort since its inception in 2002 to over $1.6 million.

ORLANDO, FL -- A five-year compromise may be signed before Thanksgiving that would establish April 10 as the cutoff date allowing certain Chilean grape varieties to enter the United States without special inspections.

JC Produce, the West Sacramento, CA, firm that closed its doors last month, has at least $700,000 more PACA debt than it has receivables.

Within the next few months, Sun World International LLC, headquartered in Bakersfield, CA, will be "relocating all of our administrative staff and sales and marketing staff from their current locations at our packing facility north of Bakersfield to a new office building in downtown Bakersfield," David Marguleas, chief marketing officer, told The Produce News Oct. 28. Some personnel from the company's Coachella, CA, office will also be relocating to the new office facility in Bakersfield, he said.