Just days away from Valentine’s Day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists have inspected nearly 850 million cut flowers for insects, pests and diseases that could harm the agricultural and floral industries of the United States.

Suntory Flowers delivered beautiful blooms to the red carpet with Tu Bloom of Bloom Designs Inc., the official botanical artist for the GRAMMYs. The 65th annual GRAMMY Awards were held Feb. 5 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists are busy working at U.S. ports of entry to ensure that flowers that are being imported, are free from pests and diseases that could harm the agricultural and floral industry of the United States.

BC Tree Fruit Cooperative and Sandhu Fruit Farm have formed a strategic partnership for the packing of export cherries grown in the Okanagan, Creston and Similkameen valleys. With the Sandhu Fruit Farm installation of Unitec’s world-class Cherry Vision 3.0 sorting and packaging technology, cooperative growers who grow export quality cherries will have even more opportunity to maximize their returns through shared volume and technology that will enable greater access to markets by air and ocean.

The continued growth of controlled environment agriculture and how producers, retailers and consumers are responding to fresh produce items grown indoors will be the subject of the first-announced educational session at Organic Produce Summit 2023.

Ten Acre Marketing added two new team members to its ranks: Jonnah Lee and Simon Andrys.

“Our company is growing and we’re thrilled to welcome Simon and Jonnah into two key roles to further support our network of clients who are advancing agriculture,” said Ten Acre Marketing CEO Leah Halverson.