Aldi continues to expand in Southwest Michigan, with plans to open its fifth area store in Otsego this fall. The Otsego location is among five stores the business expects to open in Michigan this year, with others planned for Three Rivers, Portage, South Haven and Okemus. …
Royal Hawaiian Orchards is seeking to expand its branded macadamia nut product line by raising $9 million in a rights offering extended to the company's stockholders. …
Long recognized as the sweet onion category leader, Bland Farms plans to turn heads at Southeast Produce Council’s annual Southern Exposure with the release of its newest fresh produce product offering for 2014, sweet potatoes. To date, Bland Farms has been strictly a grower, packer, and shipper of sweet onions and sweet onion products, but plans to offer a sweet potato program to customers in 2014, viewing Southern Exposure as the perfect setting from which to share the news. …
Cammie Ramsey recently joined the staff at Mann Packing Company as a marketing assistant. Ramsey graduated from Arizona State University in 2010. After returning to Salinas she interned at Mann in several different departments, concluding her internship in the marketing department. …
Over the past few years, members of Congress and their staff who have taken a close look at this issue have urged USDA to reverse its policy that prevents WIC participants from buying fresh potatoes with their program vouchers. The recent omnibus appropriations bill included report language that sends a clear message to USDA that it is obligated to base nutrition policy on the latest nutritional science, which calls for an increase in starchy vegetable consumption for all Americans, including mothers and children participating in the WIC program. …
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