Officials at Giorgio Fresh have a lot of great things to say about the mushroom category and what they are doing to stay ahead of the curve in this growing segment of the produce industry.

On the eve of the IFPA Foodservice Show, executives at the 95-year-old company are excited to talk to foodservice officials about the many benefits of mushrooms and how the product is playing a much larger role in food preparation.

The California Table Grape Commission works to maintain and expand intrastate, interstate and international demand for California table grapes and to foster an environment in which California table grape growers can succeed. It does so through a variety of channels including advertising, issue and trade management, and research.

Nichols Farms is putting a new spin on its organic in-shell and no-shell pistachios by adding some serious flavor.

“We are the first to market with a full line of in-shell and no-shell flavored pistachios,” said Christine Trageser, senior brand manager for Hanford, CA-based Nichols Farms.

Nichols Farms has released four flavors to its lineup of organic pistachios, which includes maple butter, hot honey, habanero lime and rosemary garlic.

Shipments of avocados from Mexico have declined significantly in the past month and are also skewing heavily toward small sizes creating a two-tiered market with small sizes declining in price and large fruit demand exceeding supply.

The Foundation For Fresh Produce is gearing up to celebrate the fifth annual National Fruits & Veggies Month this September. Launched alongside the Have A Plant Movement in 2019 as an opportunity to elevate fruit and vegetable consumption to a national priority, the annual month-long observance has reached more than 260 million impressions collectively since its inception.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses — US Fresh Corp., Lucero Produce and Xalpa Fresh — for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

These sanctions include suspending the businesses’ PACA licenses and barring the principal operators of the businesses from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.