FoodLink, the commerce and traceability platform that connects fresh food retailers and wholesalers to a network of over 2,000 growers, packers and shippers, announced that fresh fruit producer and marketer Sun World International LLC will use the company's item-level traceability solution on seedless grapes and sweet peppers, with planned expansion to all other fruits and vegetables produced and sold in the United States.

The “Gerrald’s Vidalia Sweets” label has had a sterling reputation in the industry for four decades. Utah Onions, Inc. of Syracuse, UT, has been equally well-known in the Western trade for just as long. Now those two well-known names have partnered to bring Vidalias and a variety of other Georgia-grown onions to market for the 2013 season.

Because of the earliness of Easter and the lateness of the strawberry harvest, it is going to be a struggle for the California strawberry industry to cover the East Coast trade for Easter this year, said Louis Ivanovich, vice president of West Lake Fresh, a Watsonville, CA-based brokerage specializing in strawberries.

To say things move quickly at the Ontario Food Terminal would be a gross understatement. With an average of over 1 million tons of produce and horticultural products passing through the terminal annually, the Toronto-based terminal is one of the larger wholesale produce distribution centers in Canada and the third-largest in North America.

Whole Foods Market announced that Gotham Greens is its operating partner of a commercial-scale greenhouse farm that will be integrated within a retail grocery space in New York City.

The 20,000-square-foot greenhouse, currently being constructed on the roof of the forthcoming Whole Foods Market store in Gowanus, Brooklyn, is scheduled to open later this fall.

Gotham Greens will grow premium-quality, pesticide-free produce year round in the greenhouse for Whole Foods Market Gowanus, as well as other Whole Foods Market locations throughout New York City.

CF Fresh Inc., a leading grower of organic fruits and vegetables based in Sedro-Woolley, WA, announced that it is formally changing the name of the company to Viva Tierra Organic Inc. in celebration of its 20th year in business.