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PMA Impact Awards honor produce packaging

Seventy-one submissions from 57 companies vied for five 2015 Produce Marketing Association (PMA) Impact Awards: Excellence in Packaging. Winners of the 2015 Impact Award announced at the Friday general session of PMA Fresh Summit in... more »

AgMRC, MarketMaker plan food mapping tool, resources

Finding food-related businesses and related educational information on a single website will soon get a lot easier. Thanks to collaboration between the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC) and MarketMaker, an interactive mapping tool and enterprise-specific... more »

Making the case for food industry means stepping into the audience’s shoes

Remember the “good old days,” when the public’s only concerns about food were whether it was good for you, tasted great and how much it cost? Those simpler times are long gone. Produce growers and... more »

New vegetable research center aims to rebuild Texas produce industry

The Rio Grande Valley Vegetable Research and Education Building, part of the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Weslaco, was dedicated today toward helping Texas regain its dominance of the vegetable production industry.... more »

Illiana Vegetable Growers Symposium slated for Jan. 5

The Illiana Vegetable Growers Symposium will be held Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central Time, at Teibel's Restaurant in Schererville, Indiana. This symposium, sponsored by Purdue Extension and University of... more »

Ocean Mist Farms explains leadership succession plan

The Ocean Mist Farms Board of Directors named Joe Pezzini as the company’s successor to current President and CEO Ed Boutonnet; the transition in leadership will occur over the next 12 months. Pezzini joined Ocean Mist... more »

Bayer CropScience partners with the National Watermelon Association

Bayer CropScience Vegetable Seeds and the National Watermelon Association (NWA) are entering into an unprecedented partnership to attract new members into the association. Effective immediately and for the next two years, Bayer is funding first-year... more »

Fresh Ideas Showcase will display new products, fresh innovations

This year more than 18,500 fresh produce and floral industry professionals from over 60 countries will gather at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, October 23-25, for Produce Marketing Association’s 66th annual Fresh... more »

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