World Water Day 2026 is coming up. UN-Water, the coordinating body of the United Nations’ water and sanitation efforts, sets an official theme and campaign each year. In 2026, the theme is “Water and Gender,” and the accompanying campaign is “Where water flows, equality grows.”

These messages accurately frame water and sanitation as a human rights issue that affects health, education, dignity and opportunity. For Continental Fresh, a grower, shipper and importer of fresh fruits and vegetables from Latin America, the message is deeply personal.

While lack of clean water and sanitation affects

Prime Time Produce, Grimmway Farms, Cal-Organic Farms and Tasteful Selections have partnered to launch #NourishTheMoment, a spring campaign celebrating nutritious produce as the centerpiece of spring gatherings.

Rolling out across social media today, the collaborative campaign will feature seasonal recipes, influencer-driven content and entertaining inspiration designed to encourage consumers to bring vibrant, fresh produce to the center of their spring tables. A giveaway inviting followers to join the conversation and celebrate the season will be announced on March 23.

“We’re excited to partner

March 31, dubbed Cesar Chavez Day in 2014 by then President Barack Obama, was supposed to be a celebration. A celebration of Cesar Chavez, who was president of the United Farm Workers Union, which he co-founded ​in 1962 and who did more for farm workers than perhaps anybody in the history of this country. 

The celebrations are no more. The memory of Cesar Chavez is forever tainted as countless allegations of sexual abuse have recently been raised. In the days following the allegations most organizations that had previously planned Cesar Chavez Day celebrations have canceled, are distancing

If you’ve spent any time watching the desert deal this year, one thing is clear: the crop is running early and now the heat is showing up to match it.

With roughly four weeks remaining before the seasonal transition from Yuma to Salinas, fields across the Arizona-California desert region continue to track roughly three weeks ahead of schedule after a winter marked by early rainfall followed by sustained above-average temperatures. 

Now the next challenge is heat. Temperatures in Yuma are forecast to climb rapidly this week, with daytime highs rising from the mid-90s early in the week to triple

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed an administrative complaint against L&L Produce LLC (not to be confused with L&L Farms in Batesville, TX). L&L Produce, operating from Texas, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to two produce sellers in the amount of $326,281 from December 2022 through August 2023, in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

L&L Produce LLC will have an opportunity to request a hearing. Should USDA find that the company committed repeated and flagrant violations, it would be barred from the produce industry as a licensee for three years, or

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed an administrative complaint against G&S Produce Inc. The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to 19 produce sellers in the amount of $333,072 from August 2023 through August 2024, in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.  

G&S Produce will have an opportunity to request a hearing. Should USDA find that the company committed repeated and flagrant violations, it would be barred from the produce industry as a licensee for three years, or two years with the posting of a USDA-approved surety