SiCar Farms, a Mexican lime specialist with U.S. operations headquartered in McAllen, TX, continues to expand its product line by adding other commodities, including a more robust line-up of winter citrus.

The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas celebrated its 52nd Nogales Produce Convention and Golf Tournament on Nov. 4 -6 at the historic Tubac Golf Resort and Spa. This year, the event welcomed over 400 attendees, including produce industry members from California, Washington DC, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Mexico.

Ocean Mist Farms features a wide variety of organic produce that is harvested and supplied to customers around the country, year-round.

Since 2000, Ocean Mist Farms has been cultivating organic artichokes and in 2015, the Ocean Mist Organic brand was introduced with a full line of fresh vegetables including leafy greens, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, fennel, herbs and spinach.

If you take the most successful leaders of any industry and you map their career trajectories backwards, you’ll see a series of “turns” where they deepened and expanded their skills to prepare for the next level.  This is described in the well-known “Leadership Pipeline,” which illustrated this upward climb in  six passages bringing them from individual contributors to enterprise managers.

Weis Markets stores have been running customer donation program in support of local food banks in the markets it serves as part of the company’s Fight Hunger program.

At checkout, customers have the option of rounding up their orders or purchasing $1-10 vouchers to help support families in need in their communities.

Apeel announced the hiring of Jim Smits as vice president of retail advisory, a new role designed to align Apeel’s solutions with the needs of retail grocery executives in operations, merchandising, marketing and fresh produce. In addition, Apeel CEO James Rogers has been appointed technology council chair for the newly formed International Fresh Produce Association, which is poised to become one of the most influential produce governing organizations in the world.