Steve Young has rejoined Oppy as director of Canadian sales. In this role, Young will lead Oppy’s Canadian sales team with a focus on strategic growth, program expansion and strong alignment across sales, marketing and category teams.

The 2025 season for SweeTango apples was shaped by extreme drought across all of Next Big Thing’s growing regions, but despite the smaller sizing, the eating experience remained exceptional. 

“The SweeTango was amazing in taste and availability, but small,” said Jennifer Miller, executive director of Next Big Thing. For 2026, she noted that fruit will remain available into mid-June or July, offering retailers a longer runway than in previous years.

Amazon will be closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores, converting various locations into Whole Foods Market stores and planning to invest in opening more than 100 new Whole Foods Market stores. The company said it failed to create a distinctive customer experience with the right economic model needed for large-scale expansion. 

Keystone Fruit Marketing, a division of Progressive Produce, is heading into the 2026 Mexican onion season with expanded grower partnerships, increased packing capacity and a highly promotable crop designed to support customer growth across retail and foodservice.

Innovation in the greenhouse vegetable industry is taking shape in Delta, BC, where Windset Farms is advancing a new smart-farming initiative designed to improve how crops are grown, monitored and managed in a changing climate. 

To mark the announcement, Windset Farms hosted Lana Popham, British Columbia minister of agriculture and food, to its Delta facility. The visit highlighted the importance of innovation in agriculture and how technology supports local food production, sustainability, and economic stability.

Fowler Farms is entering 2026 with confidence, exceptional fruit quality and a continued commitment to innovation, building on a legacy that stretches back more than six generations in apples.

As one of the East Coast’s leading grower-packer-shippers, the company is known for its expansive varietal program, strong retailer relationships and this year, the team believes they have some of their best fruit in years.