Easy Cooking Label Program Promotes Pork
An eye-catching label on packages of pork is proving to be a small but mighty tool to drive pork sales at major supermarket chains like Food Lion, Piggly Wiggly in South Carolina and Winn-Dixie in Florida. …
Month: August 2010
Panorama Meats Introduces Super-Local Organic Grass-Fed Beef To Select Whole Foods Market Stores
From Panorama Meats, Inc., the nations largest producer of USDA Certified Organic and 100 percent grass-fed and finished beef, has developed a unique program that brings beef raised on its Marin County, Napa County and Sonoma County ranches directly to Whole Foods stores in those three counties. …
Announcing PRO Institute Des Moines, A Floral Postharvest & Marketing Program
Perishables Research Organization is pleased to announce PRO Institute Des Moines, designed to share the floral expertise of mass marketers, florists, growers (bedding, potted, and cuts), importers, bouquet suppliers, breeders, associations, transportation firms, cooler companies, educators, wholesalers, and dry good suppliers with the research findings and experiences of Dr. George Staby, President, Perishables Research Organization and Dr. Michelle Jones, Associate Professor, Ohio State University. …
Tulip Breeders Develop Bigger, Tougher Lilies
Dutch bulb breeders have shifted their intense focus from spring-blooming tulips to lilies, a genus whose bloom times span early spring to late summer. The first fruits of their efforts are available in goodly supply from specialty retailers, whose fall catalogs are showing up now in mailboxes and online. …
Flower Arranging Finds A Younger Audience
Flower-arranging classes are on the upswing. Established institutions have long offered programs in traditional arranging, but newer schools, with a natural, free-form aesthetic, have begun popping up across the country, part of a swell of enthusiasm for things homemade. …
