Red Sun Farms is focused on supporting meaningful community initiatives, including its ongoing partnership with Make-A-Wish Canada.

As part of its commitment to promoting wellness in the workplace, Red Sun Farms offers employees the opportunity to purchase fresh produce boxes for a small donation. These boxes are filled with premium vegetables, freshly harvested from its greenhouses.

What makes this program truly special is that 100 percent of the proceeds are donated directly to Make-A-Wish Canada — Southwestern Ontario Chapter, helping to grant life-changing wishes for children facing

The Raley’s Cos. has partnered with Captain Planet Foundation to deliver state-of-the-art learning gardens at six elementary schools.

School gardens are much more than soil and plants. They are also an outstanding and effective way to teach children about a variety of important topics, including nutrition and where their food comes from.

Each Captain Planet Foundation Project Learning Garden, an investment of $6,000, includes raised bed gardens, lesson kits, schoolyard garden supplies, a fully equipped mobile garden cooking cart and strategies for garden maintenance. The schools with an

Salads evolved over time and are believed to have begun in Egypt, Rome and Greece. People mixed greens and vegetables together, then added some flavored dressings of oil, vinegar and salt. Salads started to spread to other parts of the world and were developed into many other types of recipes. Today, there are mixed varieties of packaged salads displayed in modern produce departments.

This is a good time to put together a nice attractive salad advertising promotion.

Volume is starting to increase on the new lettuce crop out of California, and the quality is excellent as usual. The demand is

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses — GJC Produce Depot, J&T Wholesale and Morales Produce — for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. These sanctions include suspending the businesses’ PACA licenses and barring the principal operators of the businesses from engaging in PACA licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.

The following businesses and individuals are currently restricted from

Eagle Eye Produce has acquired Baker & Murakami Produce Co., one of the largest and most advanced onion packing facilities in the Pacific Northwest.

Baker & Murakami, located in Ontario, OR, is known locally as the “super shed,” with a state-of-the-art operation that features extensive automation, AI-powered grading and sorting systems, and a track record of delivering consistent quality in the heart of the Treasure Valley.

Baker & Murakami traces its roots to Murakami Produce, founded in 1969 by Sig Murakami, and Baker Packing, which began in 1972 as part of DeBruyn Produce before becoming

Members of the 2025 Eastern Produce Council Leadership Class received training on FSMA 204 prior to the general EPC membership meeting at Topgolf in Edison, NJ, on April 22. The general EPC membership was also invited to join the Leadership Class at this invaluable seminar.

Erik Larsen with TransformIT, a fresh produce supply chain expert, spoke on behalf of IFPA to relate the fundamentals of FDA's new FSMA 204 Final Rule. “The goal of this rule is for the FDA to leverage technology to reduce the time it takes to conduct an investigation from five to six weeks to five to six days,” he said.