Curry & Co. is adding Vidalia sweet carrots to its product line, which currently features onions, sweet onions, potatoes and blueberries.

The carrots are grown, processed and packed in Statesboro, GA, at the 200,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art onion facility that Curry & Co. recently purchased from Gerrald Farms (see story on page 146). The facility attained certification from Primus, Davis Fresh and Silliker, and is in compliance with HACCP guidelines.

Like Vidalia onions, there are only select growing districts where Vidalia sweet carrots can be grown.

CAROL STREAM, IL and ORADELL, NJ — Blue Book members will soon have convenient access to select content from The Produce News via Blue Book Online Services, making it easier and faster to thoroughly research trading partners.

A Blue Book listing, rating and business report are usually the starting places when produce professionals want to evaluate a new or existing supply-chain partner. In the near future, company records in BBOS will also include a chronological list of select articles from The Produce News that reference that company.

In November 1960, Nibaldo Capote, then in his early 30s, was mayor of the town of Alquízar, a southwestern municipality in the province of Havana, Cuba. He was also involved in several businesses, including farming.

Cuba was politically tumultuous in the 1950s, with the revolution ending in Fidel Castro’s regime taking over the government. Mr. Capote’s opposition resulted in his imprisonment.