Awe Sum Organics, based in Santa Cruz, CA, hired ALOE DRISCOLL as its new marketing coordinator.

CENTER, CO — Enhancing its vertically integrated farming-shipping-marketing package, Aspen Produce in Center, CO, has upgraded with a new Kwik Lok print system that codes all bag closures with traceability information.

The system was in place earlier this summer following testing Aspen conducted on the Kwik Lok prototype earlier.

Both retailers and consumers can savor the holidays Dulcich-style, as from Sept. 4 through Oct. 31 Sunlight International packs and ships its “Harvest Hobgoblin” brand of premium California table grapes to locations across the United States and Canada.

Fresh “Hobgoblin” grapes are available in red, green and blue-black varietals.

Pink mushroom tills fill shelves across the nation as retailers participate in the Mushroom Council's in-store City of Hope Pink Campaign supporting breast cancer research and awareness to coincide with October's National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The Washington State Potato Commission announced the addition of Raina Spence as the director of industry outreach.

In a recent report, Sastry Jayanty, assistant professor and extension specialist-potato postharvest physiologist at Colorado State University’s San Luis Valley Research Center, said properly timed vine killing can improve tuber maturation and skin color, thereby improving the value of growers’ crops.