WAEF has some exciting news to share. All donations made to WAEF during the month of November will be matched through the Donate-A-Bin (Matching Donation Campaign). This is possible due to the WAEF's sponsoring partners, Orchard-Rite, CMI Orchards and Orchard Robotics, who have agreed to match donations. WAEF’s goal is to raise $30,000 this year to continue its mission of impacting lives through access to educational opportunities.

The scholarship program is impressive, with over $1 million in scholarships awarded annually. This year, 316 students are on college campuses with WAEF support

 Green Giant, the iconic brand synonymous with delicious and high-quality vegetables for families, now has a Friendsgiving campaign in support of No Kid Hungry. Green Giant, Little Green Sprout, Ernie L. Keebler, Charlie the Tuna, Pillsbury Doughboy, Lucky Charms Lucky the Leprechaun, Cheerios Buzz Bee and Mr. Peanut brand mascots came together to share a festive Friendsgiving meal. Each brand mascot brought a favorite holiday recipe to the table, which the Green Giant brand has combined into a free digital cookbook. Beginning today, consumers can visit GreenGiantFriendsgiving.com to download

For the past two years, produce industry members and their representatives have been trying to get the government agencies that report imported produce crossing data from Mexico to go back to the previous more timely reports.

So far, those efforts have not resulted in action so now they are enlisting help from their political representatives and trying to publicize the problem to shine light on what they call government inaction.

Dante Galeazzi, CEO and president of Texas International Produce Association, said two years of complaining to the Department of Homeland Security has fallen on

The Kroger Co. Foundation announced the scholarship award recipients and entrepreneurial pitch competition results from its third annual Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Innovation Challenge in collaboration with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The grants support TMCF's effort to adapt its successful innovation and entrepreneurship model to focus on food insecurity and food waste.

The Innovation Challenge is a three-day in-person business pitch competition where students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities 1890 land-grant institutions combine the adapted Innovation and

Less than three years after acquiring FreshDirect, Ahold Delhaize USA has entered into an agreement to sell the business to Getir, an ultrafast grocery delivery company. The transaction is expected to close by Nov. 30. The retailer said it made the decision to sell FreshDirect in order to focus investments in its omnichannel businesses.

“This was a difficult decision, especially given FreshDirect’s rich history in the New York City area,” said JJ Fleeman, CEO of Ahold Delhaize USA. “However, our strength as a grocery retailer in the U.S. is the true omnichannel experience — a combination of

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses 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.

The following businesses and individuals are currently restricted from operating in the produce industry:

• CFG Produce Inc., operating out of Lantana, TX, for failing to pay a $151,053 award in favor of a California seller. As of the issuance date of the reparation order, Shawn E. Jackson was listed as the officer, director and