Should the banana retail be $1.99 a pound in 2023?

Inflation has forced prices up in all categories throughout the grocery store. We cannot escape the persistent reminding from the media. The egg crisis has been primarily used as the dominant representation of extreme runaway food prices. However, hardly any item on the grocery shelf, meat case, dairy, frozen food or the fresh produce department have escaped inflationary price increases — except one. The banana.

Colombia’s Sugar Mango Association is preparing for the first entry into the U.S. market, with arrivals beginning the second week of March.

Preparations for entry to the U.S. market have been under way for several years, and consumers will finally get their first taste of this sweet, pocket-sized mango with a full marketing and social media campaign titled, “We’re Small, Sweet, and Easy to Eat.”

In 1948, two generations of the Wilcox family established Floyd Wilcox & Sons in the little town of Thornton, ID. Seventy-five years later, the fourth generation of family members has moved into leadership positions with the same fire in the belly to grow, pack, sell and ship the best potatoes they can in whatever packs align with the demands of their customers and consumers.

Keystone Fruit Marketing, a division of Progressive Produce LLC, has supported the Southeast Produce Council’s Southern Exposure show every year since its inception.

CMI Orchards announced that Brett Reasor will be joining New Columbia Fruit Packers LLC as its new CEO on March 1.

Capitalizing on the bad weather Mother Nature has unleashed on the upper Midwest this winter, indoor grower Square Roots is launching its first ever consumer advertising campaign today with the tagline “Thrive Inside.”