Whole Foods Market announced the recipients of its 14th annual Supplier All-Star Awards, recognizing outstanding supplier partners whose products, innovation and collaboration helped shape the retailer’s assortment over the past year. Among this year's honorees is Oppy.  

Hand-selected by Whole Foods Market category experts, sourcing leaders and foragers, the awards honor suppliers that delivered standout performances in 2025 across key areas including product excellence, creativity, operational reliability and collaboration.

“With unwavering commitments around quality, innovation

Agriculture wasn’t an industry Greg Beach had in mind when he majored in international relations at UC Davis. A SoCal kid, working for farmers wasn’t in his plans.  Yet, three decades later, he still loves what he does at Huntington Farms and now expands his work on behalf of farmers, shippers and processors as the newly elected chair at the Grower Shipper Association of Central California.

Beach — vice president of sales at Steinbeck Country Produce, the sales division of Huntington Farms — said the role of chair is humbling because of GSA’s long history and legacy.  He said it is very

A recent roundup of headlines about artificial intelligence shows tales of AI gone rogue, from the AI assistant that almost deleted the entire inbox of a Meta SuperIntelligence AI executive to the AI agent who applied for almost 300 jobs (in addition to signing up for Hotmail and a LinkedIn account) all on its own. 

These stories are great fodder for late-night talk show hosts and underscore the reality that AI still needs a human handler in how the technology is used in business. 

This is important, because at a societal level, trust in AI varies around the world.

According to Edelman’s Trust

The market remains under pressure as Florida continues to recover from freeze damage and Mexico struggles with extreme heat. The combination is limiting supply, impacting quality and keeping both pepper and tomato markets elevated as March winds down. 

Bell peppers remain one of the most challenged categories. Mexico, the primary supplier, is dealing with excessive heat that is slowing production and limiting harvestable yields. Shortened harvest windows are reducing overall output, while quality is mixed with increased insect pressure and fewer premium packs available. Larger sizes and No. 1

As Farmworker Awareness Week begins, Stemilt is highlighting a new Equitable Food Initiative case study and the completion of 48 worker-driven production improvement projects made in the past year. What began as a partnership to strengthen the health, safety and wellbeing of farm workers has grown into a company-wide commitment to creating a better future for the people behind World Famous Fruit. Stemilt said it is proud to share the measurable results that have come from collaboration with EFI.

“When I think about what EFI is, it’s people,” said Stemilt President West Mathison. “By definition

The Ethical Charter Implementation Program, overseen by a multistakeholder industry group to build alignment with the Ethical Charter on Responsible Labor Practices and facilitated by Equitable Food Initiative, launched a new platform for farm labor contractors. The latest Learn, Assess and Benchmark platform offers farm labor contractors an accessible starting point for social responsibility, with tools and resources to increase knowledge and assess and strengthen their labor management systems over time. FLC LAB will launch on April 1,  alongside a live informational webinar at 10 a.m. PDT/1