Fru-Veg Marketing is a top importer of fine produce from the best growers in Europe and Latin America. The company also co-owns NuBerry Farms along with Berry Bros., providing blueberries from 2,600 acres in Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina and Michigan, along with packing facilities in Georgia, New Jersey and Michigan, so it’s truly vertically integrated and a year-round blueberry company.

Things are somewhat calm around Nash Produce in May, which the company doesn’t consider a bad thing at all.

Flavor 1st Growers & Packers, which grows and packs more than 30 different varieties of produce from its Mills River, NC, location, has recently started harvesting in south Georgia, and is looking forward to a successful Georgia growing season.

Russo Farms are growers, buyers and shippers of fresh produce, and have been in business for more than a century, with retailers being its primary customer base.

Its primary crops are cilantro, dill, parsley, green onions, kale, collards, Swiss chard, beets, radishes, bok choy, cabbages and Napa cabbage. 

The company also owns and operates its own trucks for delivery, and ship via direct grower relationships in New Jersey, dealing in sweet corn, peppers, squash, cucumbers, pickles and hot peppers.

Giorgio Fresh Co. has a long-standing tradition of growing high-quality mushrooms to fit customers’ needs.

Fresh mushrooms are the answer to so many consumer needs — from nutrition to flavor to making more sustainable choices to extending their grocery dollars. The Mushroom Council is tasked with helping the mushroom category grow.

The Mushroom Council is composed of fresh market producers and importers who average more than 500,000 pounds of mushrooms produced or imported annually. Research and promotion programs help to expand, maintain and develop markets for individual agricultural commodities in the United States and abroad.