With a $77 million capital investment, Food Lion has enhanced the customer shopping experience with remodeled stores in Greenville, Jacksonville and New Bern, NC. Food Lion is holding ribbon-cutting events at 47 stores today. The company is supporting the towns and cities it serves by collaborating with local organizations to address food insecurity and nourish neighbors experiencing hunger.

The investment includes an extensive product assortment with a specific focus on a variety of affordable and easy meal solutions that are ready-to-eat, ready-to-cook or ready-to-heat. The enhancements

It was eight years ago that recruiters Stacey Rouse and Vanessa Garcia launched their executive search firm, Performant Scout, to connect premier talent to mid- to executive-level positions in produce, agribusiness, and food and beverage throughout North America.

The two colleagues had met at a previous executive search firm in 2012 and shared an office in Phoenix as they grew that company’s agribusiness division. Garcia noted that they also shared a work ethic, which led to discussions about forming their own company in 2015. Since they opened their doors and began building their business

Bread goes back as far as 30,000 years ago, but it was not until 1928 that bread was sliced on the first commercial machine in Missouri by Otto Rohwedder. Bakers at that time were skeptical about slicing bread, claiming it was just a fad.

In the sixth century B.C., a popular plant called lettuce was served in a leafy form on the tables of Peruvian kings. Today, this same lettuce has been nurtured into sophisticated packages of fresh-cut salad blends and displayed in produce departments for consumers.

Lettuce fell under the sliced bread challenge when packaged salad mixes hit the supermarket

In the era just before streaming service subscriptions emerged, and when CDs were purchased at malls, there was a groundbreaking and revolutionary time for music known as the Napster Age. While not as historically significant as the Bronze or Iron Age, those who lived through it remember it vividly.

The Napster Age was a period of innovation and disruption, led by two teenagers who had the idea and coding skills to create the Napster music-sharing platform. Though it faced legal challenges, lawsuits and eventually bankruptcy, the Napster Age laid the foundation for much of the design and

Nearly 90 percent of all strawberries grown in the United States originate from California, and generations of dedicated farmers continue to produce their crops in healthy, sustainable ways. In fact, more organic strawberries are grown in California than anywhere in the world.

The California Strawberry Commission represents more than 300 strawberry growers, shippers and processors, all working together to advance strawberry farming for the future.

The commission creates opportunities for success through groundbreaking programs focused on workforce training, strawberry production research and

As part of its ongoing support of local farms throughout its marketing area, Big Y Markets have once again pledged to help aid those farmers impacted by recent floods in the region. Big Y has pledged $25,000 to the Massachusetts Farm Resiliency Fund as set up by Governor Healey’s administration and Ashley Randle, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources commissioner. Big Y’s support in Connecticut will be finalized soon.

Throughout its almost 90-year history, Big Y has worked alongside area growers in order to bring fresh and local produce to their customers whenever possible during