Two top executives from Pacific Trellis Fruit just wrapped up an exciting visit with their South African plum-growing partners. Marcial Hernandez, vice president of sourcing, and Patty Denson, sales executive, spent a week touring orchards, packing facilities and diving into the latest innovations and new varieties.

This is the seasonal period when consumers have to deal with the dark, cold, snowy gloom of winter. It’s also a time when many parts of the country are hit with deep freezing temperatures and grey cloudy days. But summer fruits are bound for U.S. produce departments directly from Chile.

As the air cools and harvest season starts to taper down, Mountain View Fruit Sales is ready to distribute its late-season peaches and nectarines.

Scattaglia Growers & Shippers, a company that prides itself on its stone fruit, is finishing the season strong with the Autumn Flame yellow peach.

These peaches are not only notable for their size, color and flavor, but also for the aroma they release when they reach room temperature, filling kitchens with a fresh and sweet fragrance. While late-season peaches may be a bit more golden than summer peaches, they remain bursting with flavor.

Mountain View Fruit Sales launched its newly branded late-season peaches and nectarines, Autumnripe. For the past 15 years, the company has been perfecting the art of growing late-season peaches and nectarines, and this new brand highlights the transition from its well-known Summeripe program to the new Autumnripe brand.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Vietnam has granted market access for California peaches and nectarine effective immediately. Eliminating the phytosanitary barriers keeping California peaches and nectarines out of the Vietnamese market required multiple rounds of technical negotiations over the course of several years.