Nash Produce will be showcasing its locally grown North Carolina sweet potatoes at this year’s New York Produce Show, exhibiting at booth No. 435.

“We will be displaying varieties such as the purple Murasaki, the white Bonita, along with the orange Covington,” said Robin Narron, sales support and marketing director for the Nashville, NC-based company. “We will also be displaying our value-added packaging options that we have available.”

New York supermarket chain Morton Williams has become the newest member of Allegiance Retail Services, a leading retailer owned grocery co-op. Founded in 1952, Morton Williams Supermarkets is a family-owned-and-operated food retailer with 16 stores in the New York metropolitan area.

By all accounts it has been an extraordinary summer for vegetable producers with FOB prices on some items rising to levels never seen before, but Tony Incaviglia of GR Fresh expects a much more normal winter season as supply and demand get back in sync.

As a leader in mushroom production, Kennett Square, PA-based Phillips Mushroom Farms knows what it takes to be successful. After all, the company has been growing mushroom since 1927.

That means getting out and talking with customers, and there’s no better place to do that this time of year than at the New York Produce Show & Conference.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced an investment of $59.4 million to support the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program’s Produce Prescription and Nutrition Incentive programs designed to encourage families and individuals to eat more healthfully by increasing access to fresh fruits and vegetables.

JA British Columbia has recognized John Anderson as one of its 2023 Laureate Inductees into the Business Laureates of British Columbia Hall of Fame.