CEA Alliance to Host First Webinar of 2024 on Energy Management

The Controlled Environment Agriculture Alliance (CEA Alliance) will host its first webinar of 2024 titled “You Can’t Buy Power the Way You Buy Paper! Using Energy as a Competitive Advantage.” The webinar will be held at 2:00 pm EST, Thursday, January 18. Those interested in attending can register here at no cost.

Produce Brands Fowler Packing and Always Fresh Launch New Websites This Month

January 11, 2024 Freshmade

Creative agency Freshmade has recently completed new website designs for two modern produce companies, Fowler Packing and Always Fresh. The new websites strategically communicate each brand’s unique story and values through engaging content produced entirely in-house by Freshmade.

Alaska’s Snow Crab Season Canceled for Second Year in a Row

January 10, 2024 Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS

Gabriel Prout is grateful for a modest haul of king crab, but it’s the vanishing of another crustacean variety that has the fishing port in Kodiak, Alaska, bracing for financial fallout; for the second year in a row, the lucrative snow crab season has been canceled.

FDA Advises Restaurants and Retailers Not to Serve or Sell and Consumers Not to Eat Certain Whole, Live Scallops Believed to Be Harvested from a Prohibited Area in Massachusetts and Distributed by Intershell International Corp (MA 7802 SP)

January 10, 2024 FDA

Certain whole, live scallops that were received from an unlicensed harvester, believed to be harvested from prohibited waters in MA and incorrectly labeled as harvest location FED 514, with harvest dates 12/26/23, 12/27/23 and 01/01/24 that were distributed to IL, MA, NJ, NY, and PA. It is possible that these scallops may have been distributed to other states as well.

Eckrich Teams Up With Espn’s Marty Smith and Andre Ware at the College Football Playoff National Championship to Earn $250,000 for Extra Yard for Teachers

January 10, 2024 Eckrich

Eckrich®, the Official Smoked Sausage and Deli Meat Sponsor of the College Football Playoff (CFP), welcomed multifaceted ESPN sports journalist Marty Smith and Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware onto the field at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, to participate in the Eckrich® $1 Million Challenge for Teachers.