Ready-to-eat beet brand Love Beets USA celebrates its 10-year anniversary this month.  With a robust product line, notable distribution, and beloved branding, it took what was formerly thought of as a polarizing vegetable and created delicious, modern, and versatile offerings that revitalized how Americans view beets.

Love Beets began as a true labor of love by husband-and-wife team Guy and Katherine Shropshire.  Recognizing there was a gap in the U.S. market for tasty, ready-to-eat beet options, they debuted their family’s favorite recipes at the 2010 Fancy Food Show.  The response was

IPR Fresh has a good plan for the fall and winter Mexican vegetable deal.

An improvement in the markets will boost the likelihood of strong success for IPR Fresh’s (and other Nogales firms’) plans.

On Nov. 9, Jose Luis Obregon told The Produce News, “It’s been a difficult year, to say the least.”

In March as the Covid pandemic broke, there was “a big retail surge” that subsequently moderated. Lost foodservice sales impacted much of the produce industry, which is “still missing a lot” of sales.

The early fall Nogales deal has suffered from “very, very low prices,” Obregon said, because

With 2021 right around the corner, hiring for Wegmans Food Markets’ next two North Carolina stores is under way. They mark the company’s third and fourth stores in the state since it opened its Raleigh store in September 2019. Wegmans is looking for nearly 900 employees to join their Chapel Hill and Wake Forest teams.

Chapel Hill
With an opening date set for late February, Store Manager Rick Walters and his team are preparing to hire nearly 300 part-time positions for the 99,000-square-foot store. These openings span a variety of positions across every department in the store, from chefs to

Five of the Ontario produce industry’s hardworking individuals were honored on Thursday night at the Ontario Produce Marketing Association’s Virtual Awards Ceremony. The OPMA awards are presented to individuals or organizations whose efforts have made a significant impact on the Ontario produce industry. Though things might have looked a little different this year, hundreds of guests tuned in from the comfort and safety of their homes to celebrate the industry’s resilience in what was a trying and difficult year for many.

The Cory Clack-Streef Produce Person of the Year Award recognizes

Nature Fresh Farms is proud to announce that its President and Founder, Peter Quiring, is the recipient of the OPMA’s Cory Clack-Streef Produce Person of the Year Award.

According to OPMA’s website the award is given to an individual that has demonstrated on a regular basis for the last year, untiring efforts to improve the quality, distribution or consumption of fruits and vegetables marketed within or outside the province of Ontario through innovation, cooperation and hard work.

“I am so proud to have won this award,” shared Quiring. “However, I consider that Nature Fresh Farms won this

Hy-Vee, Inc. is recalling two of its Hy-Vee Short Cuts vegetable mix products across its eight-state region (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin) due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The potential for contamination was discovered during routine safety sampling at Hy-Vee’s Short Cuts production facility. To date, no illnesses have been reported in connection with these products.

Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others