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Rice Fruit’s Lee Showalter plans retirement
Lee Showalter, a longtime apple industry advocate, fruit grower and Rice Fruit Company’s grower services manager for more than 13 years, plans to retire at the end of the year. In announcing his retirement, the... more »
Rice Fruit celebrates 110 years
Rice Fruit Co., a leading East Coast apple grower and packer, is marking 110 years of growing tree fruit. “The fresh produce industry is made of a patchwork of family narratives, stories stitched together by... more »
Florida ag industry leader Al Finch dies
UPDATED: Al Finch, president of Florida Classic Growers Inc., died June 21. He was 55. A longtime Florida ag industry leader, Gene "Al" Allison Finch, Jr., was active in the early days of the Southeast... more »
Fruit Growers News wins top publishing award
Fruit Growers News took home top honors at this year’s Eddie and Ozzie Awards Ceremony in the B2B Analysis category, for its Automation Advent article appearing in the February 2019 issue. The publication was also... more »
Wish Farms introduces Misty Organics blueberry farm
Wish Farms, the year-round grower-marketer of berries, has opened a new organic blueberry farm located in Alturas, Florida. Named for Wish Farms’ mascot, Misty the Garden Pixie, the project began as an idea in 2014.... more »
Rice Fruit has new leadership, keeps family connection
Ben Rice and Brenda Briggs are the new leaders of Gardners, Pennsylvania-based Rice Fruit Co. At the company’s Sept. 14 Board of Directors’ meeting, Ben was elected president, succeeding his father, David Rice. Brenda, vice president... more »
Food safety training programs accommodate plain sect needs
Technology has changed the way we communicate and learn. Computers, video conferencing and online courses are just a few of the tools educators commonly use to impart knowledge. But what if you normally use technology... more »
Montedoro new marketing director at Crunch Time Apple Growers
Wolcott, New York-based Crunch Time Apple Growers has named Rena Montedoro as the organization’s director of marketing. In this position, Montedoro will work to elevate the regional and national... more »