The New England Produce Council drew a big and energetic crowd to its 2024 expo, held in Boston, Aug. 19-20. The council’s premier event drew a little over 1,000 attendees, and featured more than 160 booths, according to Laura Sullivan, the council’s executive director.

The NEPC Produce, Floral & Food Service Expo 2024 returned to the Encore Boston Harbor for the second year in a row, a venue which has proven to be very popular with NEPC executives and attendees alike.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding $82.3 million to 65 recipients to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops — including fruits, vegetables, tree nuts and nursery crops — and support the industry’s producers. The funding is being awarded through USDA’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) and the Specialty Crop Multi-State Grant (SCMP) Program.

Though J&C Tropicals is a top grower and distributor of dragon fruit in the United States, it also deals in a number of other popular tropical fruits.

Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in New York, northern Pennsylvania and Vermont, announced that its annual campaign for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMNH) raised over $407,000.  The campaign which ran at all participating Tops Friendly Markets locations concluded Saturday, July 6, 2024.

In the small town of Wenatchee, WA, also known as the Apple Capital of the World, was a homestead that would one day grow into the soil it sat on.