When you bring talented and passionate people together, good things tend to happen. So it is with Cultivate Create LLC, a brand new creative ag agency founded by Angela Hernandez, Michele Visser, Jane Olvera Majors and Brianne Adams.

“It’s been something that I've wanted to do — something that I always had a vision for and it just naturally came together,” said Hernandez, president of Cultivate Create. Visser holds the position of vice president of business development, Majors is vice president of strategy and Adams is vice president of operations.

According to Hernandez, she and Majors had

Wegmans is now accepting Electronic Benefits Transfer and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments for online grocery orders. Customers who use EBT SNAP as their payment will receive free delivery for three orders.

“Each week, thousands of Wegmans orders are placed on the Wegmans app and website, and we continue to hear from customers that it would be helpful to be able to use their SNAP benefits when placing an order,” said Erica Tickle, Wegmans vice president of e-commerce. “Adding this functionality is an important step to further increase access to healthy food throughout the

Produce for Better Health’s first marketing event of the year — the Consumer Connection Conference — will be held in Scottsdale, AZ, April 10-12. Now as part of the International Fresh Produce Association’s Foundation for Fresh Produce, PBH’s annual signature event bodes to convene one of the most powerful groups of fruit and vegetable advocates in history.

PBH’s Consumer Connection Conference unveils the latest consumer trends, insights and marketing solutions that help guide the consumer decision journey and create lasting consumer fruit and vegetable consumption behaviors. This event is

United Natural Foods Inc. wrapped up its Natural & Conventional Spring & Summer Show in Orlando, FL, last week, hosting over 1,000 brands and more than 2,000 customers. The show was the first of four major buying shows UNFI will deliver in 2023 and the first to bring together all natural and conventional products covering every store department and category.

Shows are a valuable way UNFI utilizes its scale, insights, and innovative offerings to help community grocers of all sizes differentiate, grow, and succeed.

With food prices expected to continue growing in 2023 at above historical

The U.S. Department of Agriculture filed an administrative complaint against Vantaggio Farming Corp. for alleged violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to two produce sellers in the amount of $1.16 million from March 2020 through November 2020.

Vantaggio Farming 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

An increase in supply has led to a decrease in strawberries prices. After weeks of record-high prices, strawberry markets are down 18 percent.

“Prices are down due to improved supply and waning holiday demand. Supply out of California and Mexico has improved significantly, but production in Florida still needs to catch up,” said Mark Campbell, founder and CEO of ProduceIQ. Currently strawberry prices are at about $18.25.

Conversely, lime prices are on the rise again, up 23 percent over the previous week. Campbell said rain and cool weather delay harvest, intensifying the effects of a