Florida Tomato Committee Seeks Nominations for 2023-2025

The Florida Tomato Committee will hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday, May 10, for tomato producers to nominate fellow growers or themselves to serve on the Committee for a two-year term, from September 2023 to September 2025.   

A Grower Group Connected By Family/Updates From West Mexico

March 29, 2023 Divine Flavor

Family is a word often used around the produce industry these days and for good reason. Many successful farm companies today come from families who have built their legacy over the years passing it from one generation to the next. In Mexico, Divine Flavor’s grower group is no different, and each of the growers the company works with today have ties to the produce distributor through family history.

Pure Flavor Celebrates National Snack Day with Week-Long Snackathon

March 2, 2023 Pure Flavor

Pure Flavor® is celebrating the flavor, nutrition, and fun of healthy snacking with a week-long campaign leading up to National Snack Day on Saturday, March 4th. The brand kicked off its content campaign on February 27th that included an Instagram giveaway with everything wrapping up at SEPC’s Southern Exposure Trade show where the brand’s full lineup of greenhouse grown fruits & vegetables will be on full display.

AppHarvest Begins Commercial Shipments From First Harvest at New Richmond, KY, 60-Acre High-Tech Indoor Farm

January 27, 2023 AppHarvest  

AppHarvest, Inc., a sustainable food company, public benefit corporation and Certified B Corp building some of the world’s largest high-tech indoor farms to grow affordable, nutritious fruits and vegetables at scale while providing good jobs in Appalachia, today announced it has started commercial shipments from its first harvest of tomatoes at its new 60-acre high-tech indoor farm in Richmond, Ky.

Rochelle-based Glasshouse Tomato Producer, MightyVine, to be Acquired by Plant Agricultural Systems

December 27, 2022 Plant Agricultural Systems

MightyVine, the Rochelle-based glasshouse tomato producer, announced today that it is being acquired by Ft. Lauderdale-based data company, Plant Agricultural Systems. Plant Agricultural Systems is an infrastructure service provider delivering both the physical and digital infrastructure necessary to support localized fresh produce demand in all regions of the world.