Retailers can plan for another successful season with kiwifruit as Zespri begins shipping its fruit in mid-May. Leading the sales growth is Zespri’s SunGold, which is now the No. 1 largest and top-growing kiwifruit. Consumers love the taste of SunGold, and making it easier to find at the store level can help drive sales. Shoppers are better able to locate SunGold in the produce section with its newly designed vertical packaging, which is stackable and easier to merchandise.

“Zespri is the world leader in premium kiwifruit and our kiwi is outpacing total fruit growth by eight points,” said

Farmstead, an online grocer that offers fresh, high-quality groceries, delivered for free, announced a new partnership with leading last-mile logistics platform DoorDash with three primary elements:

• Making Farmstead’s grocery brand available through the DoorDash app and website for one-hour delivery in all of Farmstead’s active markets covering 19 million households, and including its upcoming 15 city expansion covering 75 percent of the $1 trillion U.S. grocery market;

• Integrating Farmstead’s Grocery OS software with DoorDash, so that any grocer using Grocery OS has immediate access to

Nature Fresh Farms' Waste Me Nots program was recently created to leverage the company's tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers that do not meet the criteria of its quality control team. As most greenhouses hope to grow flawless quality produce, some product grows to be naturally bent or smaller in size.

Although unique in shape and size, these vegetables still have the same nutritional value and flavor as their perfect counterparts. Nature Fresh Farms wants to put these pieces of produce in the spotlight, creating more of an opportunity to fight waste and give shoppers further access to nutritious

C.H. Robinson is paving the way for more sustainable supply chains around the world by turning decades of logistics expertise into technology and data that any company can use to reduce its carbon footprint. Today it announced:

• Emissions IQ, which will be the first free, self-serve tool for customers to instantly show a company’s carbon emissions across all forms of transportation globally
• A collaboration with MIT and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that gives companies a standardized way to measure the emissions of their partial truckloads for the first time
• Access to

In 2020 Enza Zaden announced the discovery of the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) resistance varieties gene, a complete solution for ToBRFV. Since the announcement the company worked hard with resistant trials material achieving excellent results. “We see no symptoms at all in the plants, while the disease pressure is very high,” Oscar Lara, senior tomato product specialist, said about the first trials in Mexico.

At the Enza Zaden trial location in Mexico, the high resistance varieties are placed next to susceptible ones. There you can clearly see the difference. The susceptible

ORLANDO, FL — The Southeast Produce Council welcomed back the fresh produce industry to Southern Exposure the first week in April, as many attendees enjoyed their first in-person event in more than a year, while other attendees participated through the SEPC's Virtual Garden platform.

Southern Exposure is usually held the last weekend in February or the first weekend in March, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was moved to the first week in April, right after Eastern Sunday. This year's event, themed "The Rise of Produce," took place at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort, here.

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