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Preharvest sanitizing spray examined for produce food safety
When vegetable farmers harvest crops, they often rely on postharvest washing to reduce any foodborne pathogens, but a new University of Georgia study ... READ MORE »
Growers embrace essential oils to suppress pests, diseases as organic sales soar
Organic food sales topped $50 billion in the United States in 2018. Statistics from the Organic Trade Association tell part of the story of this growi... READ MORE »
Top 10 in vegetable sales included seven items that had double-digit increases
Labor Day boosted virtually all departments back into double-digit gains over year ago, particularly with the holiday weekend falling a week later tha... READ MORE »
Governor’s support of Proposition 15 denounced by ag groups
Following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement of support for Proposition 15, the split-roll property tax initiative, California Farm Bureau Federation ... READ MORE »
Identifying food borne pathogens throughout supply chain PathogenDX goal
PathogenDx Inc., an Arizona based technology company which has developed a multiplexed microarray DNA-based pathogen testing platform, announced Sep... READ MORE »
Input on technologies, practices for ag innovation agenda sought by USDA
To further the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) work on the Agriculture Innovation Agenda (AIA), USDA today announced it is seeking ... READ MORE »
A Q&A with Rijk Zwaan’s Eric Christianson
Well-known for its nutritional qualities, growers cultivated 66,800 acres of spinach in 2019, according to the USDA. Eric Christianson works as a s... READ MORE »
Texas International Produce Association plans Clean Eating Challenge
Many in the produce industry kept up with participants from this year’s Viva Fresh Clean Eating Challenge as they lost more than 160 pounds collecti... READ MORE »
Fruit, vegetables saw dollar sales gains track ahead of volume gains
The last full week of August saw the smallest produce sales increases since the start of the pandemic across virtually all departments. Prior months h... READ MORE »
Reactions presented on US action regarding Mexico’s trade practices
After the Sept. 1 announcement from the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on the administration’s plan to address the t... READ MORE »
