PLYMOUTH, MA — JOH Produce hosted a reception Monday evening, July 20, at the East Bay Grill, here, to celebrate the New England Produce Council's 25th annual golf tournament, taking place the following day. About 50 people attended the outdoor reception, according to Brian Maguire of JOH.

Chambersburg peaches will be available from Keystone Fruit Marketing, a division of Progressive Produce, starting the last week of July through the end of August.

"We've had ideal growing conditions providing us one of the nicest crops we've seen in years," said Director of Sales and Marketing Michael Blume. "Because of last year's weather issues, we had 50 percent of a normal crop, but we're expecting a full crop this year."

Chambersburg peaches are most popular in western Pennsylvania, but retailers outside of that area have started experiencing some interest in these peaches as well over

Sprouts Farmers Market has teamed up with MyFitnessPal to support the health and fitness platform’s users with healthy recipes, articles, challenges and more.

Sprouts, one of the fastest growing retailers in the country, is the first retailer sponsor on MyFitnessPal and helped introduce a new enhancement to MyFitnessPal’s Recipe Discovery feature that allows users to search and cook more than 100 healthy recipes, highlighting fresh ingredients available at Sprouts. Premium members can simply log and save recipes directly in their profile to count toward their fitness goals. To date, 2,169

Fruit World, a family-owned, flavor-focused grower-shipper of organic and conventional fruit and one of the largest California growers of organic Thomcord grapes, expects to begin shipping this popular variety by the end of July, with strong, promotable volumes available from mid-August through early-October. Thomcord seedless grapes are a hybrid of Concord and Thompson Seedless grapes, with the rich, full Concord flavor and the tender skin and seedless qualities of the Thompson.

"We are already getting text messages from consumers asking when our organic Thomcords will be available," said

iTradeNetwork, the global provider of supply chain management solutions for the food and beverage industry, announced Bianca Buckridee as its new vice president of product marketing.
 
Prior to joining iTradeNetwork, Buckridee worked for Blue Yonder, BMC Software, The Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and SunTrust Banks in progressively responsible customer service operations and product marketing roles. She holds a bachelor's degree in communications from Southeastern University.
 
In her new role, Buckridee will be responsible for building and scaling the product

Alsum Farms & Produce grower partner Trembling Prairie Farms Inc. is harvesting new crop Wisconsin celery, with the season expected to go through the first week of October. Located in the muck soils of Green Lake County, Trembling Prairie Farms, a family farm owned and operated by John and Connie Bobek along with their four children in Markesan, is in its 10th year of growing and packing locally grown celery serving the Midwest retail and foodservice markets.

In 2012, Trembling Prairie Farms started with three acres of celery and today has expanded to over 45 acres. The farm starts with a