Busy schedules make family mealtimes challenging, but the time spent eating together as a family has never been more important! Discover the many benefits there are to sharing meals and how making the time to eat together, can play a key role in fueling a healthy family. It’s time to make family meals a priority again! Research shows that home-cooked meals nourish the spirit, brain, & the overall health of all family members.  This means that there are many benefits for not only your physical health, but for your mind as well. 

Avocados From Mexico is kicking off its national shopper marketing campaign for the big game featuring football legend, Deion Sanders and his fiancée, award-winning TV and film producer Tracey Edmonds. Because the big game deserves the tastiest promotion ever, the couple partnered with Avocados From Mexico to create their favorite guac recipes, and the brand is inviting shoppers to vote for their favorite in the Tasty Good vs Good Fat Delish showdown.

Between storms, higher inflation prices and seasonal crop transitions, the produce industry is lumbering in a mix of challenges for directors in developing desired ad programs. Quality, shortages, crop issues, winding up of local produce, predicted freezing temperatures in the east and other weather-related problems have prices on the high side. What can produce directors turn to in promoting produce under these adverse times?

There’s room to keep growing Stemilt’s Artisan Organics brand promise to produce organic fruit that delights consumers. Stemilt Marketing Director Brianna Shales said the company partners with Apeel to improve the consumer experience with crisper apples.

Produce Alliance and Copia have partnered to donate pallets of fresh produce and prepared food to community members in need.

Food is the single largest component taking up space inside U.S. landfills, making up 24 percent of municipal solid waste. At the same time, over 38 million people in America are struggling with food insecurity. Food waste and hunger are inextricably linked issues and can be solved through technology and logistics. Copia has built the first end-to-end solution that directly addresses both.

The Idaho Potato Commission recently announced the addition of Sam Eaton as the new vice president of legal and government affairs. Additionally, industry veteran Travis Blacker was promoted to vice president of industry relations and research, and Ross Johnson has been promoted to vice president of retail and international.