Organic Produce Network

Dec 3, 2024 | organicproducenetwork.com | Dawn Reiss

Farmers are resilient. But waiting to discover the aftermath of a hurricane can be arduous. “It’s a lot of praying and crossing your fingers, hoping for the best,” says Nick Wishnatzki, public relations manager at Wish Farms, a fourth-generation, family-operated berry grower and shipper headquartered in Plant City, Florida. “It's more about the assessment and what needs to be done afterward to get everything back up and running.

Nov 25, 2024 | organicproducenetwork.com | Melaina Juntti

The fall and winter holidays represent some of the busiest times of the year for food retail. Most grocery stores spend weeks or even months gearing up for the rushes that Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and even New Years Eve can bring. By this point, with Turkey Day less than a week away, most independent natural products retailers are probably as prepared for this holiday as they can be.

Nov 20, 2024 | organicproducenetwork.com | Richard Mitchell

Organic produce sales are on the upswing, but sustaining and increasing activity will not come easy. Retailers seeking to maximize activity must successfully handle a plethora of merchandising variables, which includes the need to manage pricing and supply issues while ensuring product quality, says Tom Barnes, president and chief executive officer of Category Partners LLC, an Idaho Falls, Idaho-based fresh food industry research and consulting firm.

Nov 20, 2024 | organicproducenetwork.com | Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell has been reporting on supermarket developments for more than 15 years. He regularly contributes to Supermarket News, a sister website of New Hope Network. He was editor-in-chief of publications covering the retail meat and poultry, deli, refrigerated and frozen foods, and perishables sectors and has written extensively on meat and poultry processing and store brands. Mitchell has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina.

Nov 19, 2024 | organicproducenetwork.com | Tim Linden

With no major weather events impacting the growing season in Mexico thus far this year, the production of organic tomatoes is ramping up with good supplies and decent FOB prices expected as shippers move into and through the end-of-the-year holiday season. “We are wrapping up production from Baja California,” said Michael DuPuis, manager of quality assurance and public relations for Divine Flavor Inc., on Nov. 15.