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Study: Innovation drives category growth and engagement for fresh produce

The Southeast Produce Council in conjunction with 210 Analytics released What’s New: The Consumer Take on Produce Innovation and Technology 2021 in one of two educational sessions at its fall show, Southern Innovations, on Sept. 9 “Southern In... more

AgBiome raises $116M led by Blue Horizon and Novalis LifeSciences

AgBiome, a developer of products from the Earth's microbial communities, announced it has raised $116 million in an oversubscribed Series D round of funding, co-led by Blue Horizon and Novalis LifeSciences and that included multiple new and exist... more

Fall Creek adds Holger Brandt as general manager of Sekoya platform

Fall Creek Farm & Nursery Inc., a global blueberry breeding and nursery company, has announced that Holger Brandt is now the general manager of its Sekoya platform for premium blueberry varieties. Since 2018, Brandt has been Fall Creek’s licen... more

Michigan Craft Beverage Council accepting 2022 research grant proposals

The Michigan Craft Beverage Council announced Sept. 13 it is accepting 2022 research grant proposals with a maximum grant award of $40,000. Proposals must be received no later than 3 p.m. (EDT) on Monday, Oct. 25. While any research topic will be ... more

Indiana winegrape harvest projected to be fruitful

Indiana winegrape growers began harvesting in late August and will continue through early October. Despite a late freeze at the beginning of the growing season, high winegrape yields are expected across the state. Miranda Purcell, Purdue’s vitic... more

Rubio blasts White House for ignoring harm to fruit and vegetable growers

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., released a statement Sept. 10 after White House Director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, touted artificially low fruit and vegetable prices that harm American growers: “In an effort to defend the Whi... more

Organic farm school offers an attractive career path, operators say

Does a lifetime of digging in the dirt (building soil!) sound like an enticing career goal? If so, we just may have the solution to your post-pandemic career blues. Next month the critically acclaimed Organic Farm School begins accepting applicati... more