Los Alamitos, CA-based Frieda's Inc. is offering its popular Donut peaches again this year, and to support the product and maximize sales during the eight-week window of availability, the company will be offering new point-of-purchase kits for retailers.

Westlake Produce Co. in Los Angeles announced the retirement of Dan Sims, one of four partners, effective June 30.

Mr. Sims' father, Joseph Sims, founded Brooks & Sims with William I. Brooks in 1962. Dan Sims and William I. Brooks son Bill ran the business from the early 1980s until its merger with Westlake-Miller in 2001, which led to the formation of Westlake-Miller/Brooks & Sims.

Five years ago, C&C Produce began supplying one of the government commissaries with a full line of produce. At present, the company services a total of six commissaries: Fort Leavenworth, Fort Leonardwood, Fort Riley, Offutt Air Force Base, Whiteman Air Force Base and McConnell Air Force Base.

A busload of retailers, foodservice operators, suppliers and allied industry toured the Salinas Valley as part of a Fresh Produce & Floral Council tour held Wednesday, June 1.

The tour was designed to give retail and foodservice personnel a first-hand look at the production element of some of the products they sell and promote.

Three operations -- California Florida Plant Co., California Giant and Monterey Mushrooms -- were included in the full-day program.

PENNS GROVE, NJ -- With a cool spring pushing back the start of the New Jersey vegetable season by 10 days to two weeks so far this year, Boston lettuce, asparagus and hothouse tomatoes were about the only Jersey items in the produce department at the Incollingo's Family Market store here in mid-May.

But that will all change as spring turns into summer, when this store will put Jersey produce items figuratively -- and literally -- front and center.

Scott Gorczyca gets a kick out of just about everything he does, including his new job in sales at Baloian Packing in Fresno, CA.

The former fullback at Arizona State University in Tempe tackles every task with enthusiasm, whether it's promoting the full line of commodities for the grower-shipper-packer he joined this spring or when he would help his father shoe horses as a youngster back in Arizona, where he grew up.