As people around the world rang in the New Year, many Hispanic households were celebrating with grapes. The California Table Grape Commission developed a media kit around a popular Hispanic New Year tradition -- 12 Uvas de la Suerte (12 Grapes of Luck) -- and generated media coverage in Spanish-language television stations, newspapers and web sites across the country.

The winner of the Michigan Honeycrisp display contest, Plumb's Value-Rite Foods.

Plumb's Value-Rit

Sweet and juicy New Zealand apricots are back again at The Oppenheimer Group, and the marketer is kicking the season off with air shipments arriving on both coasts the week of Jan. 16, according to a company press release.

Melissa’s World Variety Produce line “consists of over 350 organic fruits and vegetables,” said Robert Schueller, director of public relations for the Los Angeles company. “We have been certified organic for 12 years.”

Mr. Schueller said that winter means citrus, and the company’s wide line of organic options includes Navel oranges, lemons and numerous mandarin varieties.

Just six years after making the decision to grow organic onions in addition to the conventional onions it already produced, Yerington, NV-based Peri & Sons Farms considers the venture a great success, according to a Jan. 17 company press release. Starting with just three acres of organic onion production in 2006, today Peri & Sons’ organic onion acreage has increased hundreds of times over.