Peri & Sons Farms grows, packs and ships premium white, yellow, red, sweet and organic onions year-round directly from its family farms in Nevada and California. Nevada is where the company grows most of its acreage for red, whites, yellows, sweets, Sweetie Sweet and Sunions.

North Bay Produce is a year-round berry shipper, offering a continuity of supply between regions and hemispheres in the fall, which allows for consistency and stability of product.

Water out west has always been a bit of a dry subject, but that’s about to change now that the state of Arizona has passed Senate Bill 1740 — a historic water infrastructure plan that invests an unprecedented $1 billion over three years to fund projects that will bring additional water to the state, helping to ensure that Arizona agriculture, as well as families and businesses, continue to have adequate long-term water supplies.

Problems are something in the produce business that will never be eliminated.

Do you know what I used to hate the most as a produce director? Interruption problems. I’m talking about those annoying problems that cause a work stoppage in the middle of an overloaded schedule of endless daily management demands.

SpartanNash hosted more than 1,500 food and grocery suppliers and independent retail customers this week for the 2022 Fall Expo at the DeVos Place Convention Center in Grand Rapids, MI. The Delivering Seasonal Values themed event created a platform for independent grocery customers, brand representatives and SpartanNash leaders to share upcoming trends; discuss critical industry topics including inflation; and work collaboratively to find innovative solutions to mitigate rising food prices and help pass cost savings on to shoppers at retailers across its network.

Buona Foods is a third-generation, family-owned mushroom company, which operates three farms and a packinghouse in the mushroom capital of the world, Kennett Square, PA.