Nature Fresh Farms is proud to announce that its President and Founder, Peter Quiring, is the recipient of the OPMA’s Cory Clack-Streef Produce Person of the Year Award.

According to OPMA’s website the award is given to an individual that has demonstrated on a regular basis for the last year, untiring efforts to improve the quality, distribution or consumption of fruits and vegetables marketed within or outside the province of Ontario through innovation, cooperation and hard work.

IPR Fresh has a good plan for the fall and winter Mexican vegetable deal.

An improvement in the markets will boost the likelihood of strong success for IPR Fresh’s (and other Nogales firms’) plans.

On Nov. 9, Jose Luis Obregon told The Produce News, “It’s been a difficult year, to say the least.”

With 2021 right around the corner, hiring for Wegmans Food Markets’ next two North Carolina stores is under way. They mark the company’s third and fourth stores in the state since it opened its Raleigh store in September 2019. Wegmans is looking for nearly 900 employees to join their Chapel Hill and Wake Forest teams.

Hy-Vee, Inc. is recalling two of its Hy-Vee Short Cuts vegetable mix products across its eight-state region (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin) due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The potential for contamination was discovered during routine safety sampling at Hy-Vee’s Short Cuts production facility. To date, no illnesses have been reported in connection with these products.

The Los Mochis, Sinaloa, chili pepper deal is to begin late this November for Higueral Produce Inc.

Saladexpress, a leader in Québec’s pre-cut salad and vegetable processingindustry, announced a major $5 million investment in its Saint-Rémi factory, located on the South Shore of Montréal. After launching three new salad kits under the Florette brand in grocery stores last month, Saladexpress continues to expand its business in Québec’s food market despite the uncertainty caused by the current pandemic. Such growth reflects the good financial health of a local company that is driving innovation.