According to multiple reports, heavy rain in central Mexico destroyed hundreds of hectares of strawberry fields last week, and ProduceIQ reports that a disease called Fusarium is negatively affecting strawberry yields in California. As a result, strawberry supply is forecasted to remain tight well after Labor Day. Strawberry prices are currently at a 10-year high for this week.

The California avocado season is drawing to a close. With nearly 263 million pounds shipped through Aug. 14, the crop is estimated to be about 97 percent harvested. The California Avocado Commission delineates crop years based on its fiscal year timing of November through October. The 2021-22 crop year was highlighted by strong market conditions, an early start to harvesting and more of the crop shipping in the spring than is typical.

Getting your kids to love vegetables will of course aid in their overall growth and development but by creating healthy lifestyle habits, it will also help them live improved lifestyles as they grow older because eating lots of delicious and nutritious vegetables reduces the likelihood of developing chronic diseases in the future. Though sometimes getting your family to eat everything on their plate is no easy feat, try these four ways to help increase the odds of how to get your little ones to eat more veggies.

Navigating and adhering to new compliance requirements for organic producers and handlers will be the subject of the first educational session announced as part of the Organic Grower Summit 2022 presented by Western Growers and OPN educational program, slated for Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in Monterey, CA.

Keitt mangos from Northern Sinaloa are now available from Splendid by Porvenir, filling a void in the market with the Ataulfo deal having wrapped up two weeks ago and Kents now winding down.

“We started with Keitts the end of last week,” Cindy Schwing, who recently joined Splendid as vice president of marketing, told The Produce News Aug. 17. “There will be a lot of large fruit in the range of fours to eights, with not too many 10s or smaller.”

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