Side Delights announced shifts in spending and occasion for potato purchases as shoppers continue to cook and celebrate at home. While restaurants and travel are making a return, eating out has become more expensive, and consumers have adapted to the pantry-to-plate trend created during the pandemic, spending more on produce, including potatoes.  

New crop onions out of Texas have started and demand is fairly good. The market on medium yellow and white is higher with colossal slightly higher and others steady. Mexico is shipping through south Texas, and the market is slightly higher on a moderate demand. Vidalia sweet onion season has kicked off with good demand and a steady market. Organic Vidalia onions are also available in bags and bulk

Fresh Farms, a Mexico-based grower and shipper of table grapes and vegetables, is in the middle of an expansion program that will see tremendous increase in its volume in the coming years.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — The Produce for Better Health Foundation returned to Scottsdale after a three-year pandemic-induced hiatus for its annual Consumer Connection conference, drawing organization members and social media influencers to the Valley of the Sun, where a full slate of workshops and networking events were on the agenda.

Organics in an Era of Inflation and Changing Consumer Behavior will be the subject of the fourth educational session at the upcoming Organic Produce Summit 2022, featuring an exclusive sales analysis of organic fresh produce sales through the first half of 2022, and examining how consumer purchasing behavior is changing in a time of inflation.

The California Avocado Commission is extending its successful advertising campaign “the best avocados have California in them.” This season’s  ads feature visuals that point to the “CA” in the middle of the word “avocados," and audio and other ads that call out the play on words in their taglines. Consumer media is targeted to avocado shoppers in California and the West who are willing to pay more for premium brands and to avocado “super-users,” “mega-users” and “ultra-users.”