The SF Market, home to 26 of San Francisco’s merchant businesses, has named Virginia Hines as its new board president and added three new board members.

Crunch Time Apple Growers is comprised of 150 growers in New York State. When the company was formed, it was granted an exclusive license to grow and market SnapDragon and RubyFrost apples in North America.  

“These two apple varieties are the entire focus of the company,” said Jessica Wells, executive director of the Lockport, NY-based company. “The company has learned a lot in the last 10 years about marketing premium apples to consumers and to retailers and we’re excited to continue learning as the industry evolves.”

After months and months of stratospheric FOB pricing on avocados, big volumes were available in the U.S. market in July leading to much lower prices with promotional opportunities expected to stretch far into the future.

New Jersey continues to be one of the leading states in produce safety. In fact, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture carries out approximately 100 produce safety inspections, educational on farm readiness reviews, and 175 USDA third-party audits annually.

Bland Farms has been importing onions from Peru for more than 25 years and is one of the companies on the forefront of packing, distributing, and marketing them. 

Twenty years ago, I started my first job out of college and 12 years ago next month, I entered the produce industry. When recently speaking to a colleague about how different the workplace is now for college graduates vs. when I entered, she asked me, “If you could give advice to your younger self, what would you say?”