Month: February 2013

Five Star Family Growers, an Auburndale blueberry grower, announced Thursday it has begun construction of a packinghouse and cold storage facility that will process more than 1 million pounds of fresh blueberries beginning this spring, according to a company statement. …

Our piece, "Twenty Lessons Learned From Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Failure," brought many responses. Edna St. Vincent Millay was among the first women to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She advised that “It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.” Which is pretty much what seems to have happened here. …

Over 50 years ago, Don Christopher, the founder of Christopher Ranch, came upon the most flavorful variety of garlic he had ever tasted. Five decades later, Christopher Ranch proudly continues to cultivate and harvest the Monviso varietal exclusively, choosing to deliver garlic of exceptional flavor rather than plant higher yielding, inferior tasting varieties. …

Mastronardi Produce Ltd. Is currently expanding its distribution center in Kingsville, ON which will almost double the company's Headquarters. The increase in space at the primary Canadian location is related to the company adding over an additional 100 greenhouse acres in Ontario alone for 2013. …

After extensive consultations with the U.S. Department of Commerce, domestic tomato growers indicated tentative support for the revisions negotiated by the U.S. Government and Mexican growers.  After being briefed on the tentative agreement, the Florida Tomato Exchange and Certified Greenhouse Farmers released the following statement: …