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The
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PMA,
WGA release COOL best practices draft
Produce
Marketing Association, Newark, Del., and Western Growers Association,
Irvine, Calif., have jointly released draft best management
practices for produce country-of-origin labeling, according
to a news release.
To
learn more. . .
*
PMA
Web page offers Salmonella updates
* Gerawan
ordered to pay assessments, penalties
* PBH
Web site features supplier toolkits
* Family
business scholarships available
* PACA
action
* Retail
Roundup
Outside
the Insider
* Picky
robots may someday pick fruit (venturacountystar.com)
* [India]
Climate change blamed as mango harvest goes sour in India
(timesonline.co.uk)
* Ag
researchers get new taste-testing lab (ledger-enquirer.com)
* Fast
food goes organic (washingtonpost.com)
* Pomegranates
the newest fad fruit (nwsource.com)
* Beware
illegal fruit vendors (mercedsunstar.com)
People
CHERIE
JACKSON has joined Arizona Marketing Inc., Phoenix, Arizona.
KEITH
PILCHER has joined BNSF Logistics LLC, Van Buren, Arkansas
as team builder.
JOHN KILLEEN
is now vice president of sales and marketing for Muranaka
Farm Inc., Moorpark, California.
JEFF MELE
has joined sales for Mountain View Fruit Sales Inc., Reedley,
California.
TODD SARGENT
is no longer with Huron Produce Ltd., Longmont, Colorado.
BRENTT
SKINNER and JON SHRIVER have joined sales for Goodson Farms
Inc., Balm, Florida.
ROY PARKE,
longtime Plant City, Fla., strawberry grower known unofficially
as the state's "Strawberry King" died June 5. Parke
was the first person inducted into the Florida Strawberry
Growers Hall of Fame and he received numerous other honors
and appointments.
ROBERT
BIRCHMIER is now with Sanzone Brokerage Inc., Palmetto, Florida.
GREG MILIS
is no longer with Voyager Farms LLC, Parrish, Florida.
SHAWN
AVERA and TONY EATON have joined Delta Fresh Sales Inc., Tifton,
Georgia.
JULIO
GARCIA is no longer connected with Caraveo Papayas Inc., Bronx,
New York.
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