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December 22, 2009

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 The Front Page

Football great Joe Montana promotes hass avocados

The Irvine, Calif.-based Hass Avocado Board hopes that football legend Joe Montana will help avocado growers score huge sales numbers for "the big game" Feb. 7 - Super Bowl Sunday - according to a news release..
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* PMA receives additional $372,000 for food safety
* Idaho Potato Commission plans display contest
* Carl's Jr. taps Kim Kardashian for new salad ads
* Citrus growers approve 'box tax' to fund research
* Retail Roundup

Outside the Insider

* Pest-weary orange growers turn to peaches (tampabay.com)
* Whole Foods CEO talks about going back to roots (google.com)

* Sacramento protest targets farm chemical (fresnobee.com)
* 26,500 school cafeterias lack required inspections (usatoday.com)
* (United Kingdom) Banana prices to fall after longest trade dispute in EU history settled (telegraph.co.uk)
* Chemical, biological weapons used in fight against citrus greening (tcpalm.com)
* Federal group proposes curbs on marketing food to kids (onlinewsj.com)

People

MIKE JUSTUS sales representative for Gill Corn Farms Inc., Hurley, New York, passed away December 6, 2009.

FRANCISCO SANDOVAL is now market director for Grupo Heres S De R L De C V, Los Reyes, Michoacan, México.

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