International Fresh Produce Association Vice President of Nutrition & Health Mollie Van Lieu has been announced as the emcee for the Food as Medicine Summit in Chicago May 25-26. 

Farmers and produce professionals throughout Ohio provide consumers with a range of delicious, healthy, and high-quality fruits and vegetables. The list of items that are grown in the state includes apples, grapes, wild mushrooms, cherries, cabbage, radishes, Swiss chard, raspberries and much more.

Tomorrow Farms announced an $8.5 million seed round. The company partners with innovative, deep tech food companies to build consumer-friendly, retail-ready, animal-free brands and products. This seed round marks the beginning of an era for Tomorrow Farms as it prepares to launch its first products, grow its internal team, build meaningful retail relationships, and court new food technology partners to help solve some of our food system's biggest problems.

The United Family donated 50,000 pounds of apples to food banks and other organizations across Texas and New Mexico as part of the Take a Bite Out of Hunger program. The donations took place throughout the last week of April.

In the first 11 years of the Take a Bite Out of Hunger program, United Family stores have donated more than 540,000 pounds of apples and fed more than 167,000 families. Now in the 12th year, the company continues to add to that total.

Since opening in 2011, the updated Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market has wowed customers and companies alike for being the world’s largest fully enclosed, fully refrigerated wholesale produce terminal. The facility’s main building is one-quarter mile long and 686,000 square feet, bigger than 14 football fields.

Inline Plastics, a leading manufacturer of innovative and high-quality PET food packaging, has opened a new manufacturing plant in Gladwin, MI, at the former Cam Packaging facility. The official announcement was made last week at the company’s corporate headquarters in Shelton, CT. The Michigan facility is already up and running under its new Inline banner.