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Stop & Shop, an Ahold Delhaize company, announced a tentative agreement of terms with five local unions, which allowed Stop & Shop's 31,000 associates in New England to return to work on Monday. The strikes had affected 246 of Stop & Shop's 415 stores and lasted 11 days, having started on April 11.
These photos of the produce department at the Stop & Shop location in Westport, CT, the night of Monday, April...
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Today's Headlines
- Del Monte’s sustainability efforts yield carbon footprint reduction
- Upsurge in the availability of fresh herbs
- Stop & Shop employees return to work after 10-day strike
- Delta Packing continues success with California cherries
- Ocean Spray committed to sustainable farming
- Amazon, Walmart and ShopRite part of USDA's SNAP online purchasing pilot
- LGMA adopts new, more stringent food safety practices
- Coachella Valley expecting excellent year because of superior winter weather
What's New
Mother Nature has brought California an abnormal winter with a tremendous amount of rain and snow. In fact, for the first time since 2011, no part of the state is currently enduring drought conditions.
Stephen PaulBut this abnormal weather is expected to produce a “normal” organic tree fruit crop, according to Stephen Paul, stone fruit and blueberry category...
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With an increase in acreage, Gilroy, CA-based Christopher Ranch LLC has been able to follow through on its goal of only growing its organic garlic in the state of California for the 2018-19 season. Previously, the firm had augmented its domestic organic garlic supply with some organic garlic from Argentina to help fill orders as the season neared its end.
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BC Tree Fruits Cooperative has named two new senior executives — Todd McMyn as chief executive officer and Ross Dwhytie as chief financial officer. McMyn joined the cooperative effective April 1 and Dwhytie April 8.
“We are extremely excited to welcome two solid leaders to the cooperative,” said Chairman...
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Attendees bid adieu to CPMA 2019 in Montreal
MONTREAL — Before CPMA 2019 officially came to a close, attendees celebrated one last time with dinner and a show...
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Nicole Zapata of Misionero, Colleen Chen of OMG Video, Valerie Gonzalez of 4 Earth Farms and Jeanette Hertzler of Okanagan Specialty Fruits.
Major heat wave out west to shake things up
The next five days may be a major game changer in the produce world for product coming from California and Arizona. Today will see...
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