USDA Establishes Weekly Report to Highlight Seasonable and Perishable Product Trends

January 11, 2021 USDA AMS

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced a new data report, the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement Seasonal Perishable Products Weekly Update, prepared in close partnership with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce).

Sea Pact Announces New Board Chair

January 8, 2021 Sea Pact

Sea Pact, a pre-competitive collaboration of ten leading American and Canadian seafood companies working together to drive industry sustainability progress, have a new chair for their Advisory Board.

How Throwing the Big Ones Back Could Keep Halibut Fishery on a Roll

January 8, 2021 Paul Withers, CBC News

You’ve heard of throwing back the little fish — what about throwing back the big ones?

NCBA Leverages Chicory’s Digital Shopping Aisle Solution and Shoppable Recipe Tech

Chicory, the leading digital shopper marketing platform, and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), a contractor to the Beef Checkoff program and manager of the Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner. brand, announce today a partnership to raise the profile of beef to American consumers and accelerate ecommerce growth of beef products at Kroger and Kroger banners, Walmart Grocery and Albertson/Safeway banners.

Simmons Foods Announces Joel Sappenfield as President of Simmons Prepared Foods

January 8, 2021 Simmons Foods

Simmons Foods announced today that Joel Sappenfield has joined the company as president of Simmons Prepared Foods. In this role, Sappenfield will be responsible for all aspects of Simmons’ poultry business including operations, sales and marketing.