Cavano’s Perennials Expands to Meet Native Plant Demand: Now Offering American Beauties Native Plants

April 24, 2024 Cavano's Perennials

Cavano’s Perennials has joined American Beauties Native Plants® as a licensed grower, providing garden-worthy native plants that promise to “make your garden come alive”. Cavano’s is a thriving wholesale nursery in Kingsville, Maryland, who has always provided quality plants to garden centers, landscape contractors, re-wholesalers, and municipalities through the eastern United States.

Gardencomm 2024 Annual Conference Registration Is Now Open

April 24, 2024 GardenComm

Registration is now open for the GardenComm Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI, August 26-30. The four-day event, with an optional fifth-day add-on tour, will feature quality educational sessions, opportunities to connect with horticultural professionals, behind-the-scenes nursery tours, and exclusive garden tours of both private and public gardens.

IDFA Applauds USDA Final School Meal Rule for Maintaining Dairy Options, Preserving Flavored Milk for All Grades

The updated rule preserves the ability for schools across the country to serve nutritious flavored milk to students in all grades as long as the product meets IDFA’s Healthy School Milk Commitment guidelines, which ensures an 8-ounce half-pint of non-fat or low-fat flavored milk contains no more than 10 grams of added sugar per serving. IDFA established the Commitment in early 2023 with 37 school milk processors.

Pizza Hut Puts Good on Its Menu with Investments in Sustainably Sourced Cheese with Dairy Farmers of America

When the partnership began in 2022, Pizza Hut set a goal to source 50% of the dairy used to make its pizza cheese in the U.S. from dairy farms participating in a sustainability project, including enrollment in the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management Environmental Stewardship (FARM ES) program by 2025. The brand met this goal two years early in 2023, achieving 60% of its sourced milk from farms participating in the FARM ES program. That equates to over 2.35 billion pounds of milk from approximately 140,000 milking cows.

Ocean Mist Farms Hires New Chief Financial Officer

April 24, 2024 Ocean Mist Farms

Ocean Mist Farms hired a new Chief Financial Officer, Tim Wolfli of Petaluma, CA. With over two decades of experience in fresh produce, including agriculture, aquaculture and foodservice, Tim brings with him a well-rounded set of skills and experience to help drive the now century-old and ever-evolving company into the future.