Texas Governor Greg Abbott has greatly increased truck safety inspections at the major Texas border crossings from Mexico to the United States causing truckers to wait as long as 32 hours to get into the United States with their loaded trucks. As a result, there were efforts by incoming truckers to block the border on Monday morning to shine light on the situation.

Country Sweet Produce announced the promotions of Prescott Leyba to director of sales and Alexandra Rae Molumby to director of marketing for Bako Sweet.

In their elevated roles, Leyba and Molumby will work in tandem to lead the growth of the Bako Sweet brand at every level from farm to retail. This includes building highly functioning sales and marketing teams, both internally and with strategic partners, to drive the company’s goals forward.

WOODLAND PARK, NJ — The Eastern Produce Council held its 54th annual John J. McAleavey Gala — a night the event’s namesake called “the produce prom” — Saturday, April 9, at the Westmount Country Club, here.

Gills Onions recently enlisted FoodMix Marketing Communications, a leading food marketing agency, to launch an Onionology campaign. Designed to showcase the intricate details that go into raising the best onions, the Onionology campaign highlighted everything from soil to the company's emissions-free electricity.

Northampton Growers, headquartered in Cheriton, VA, has operations in Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia and Florida. It’s the latter that the company currently is focusing on for the important spring season.

Between November and June every year, the Florida growers work with peppers, squash, beans, cabbage, cucumbers, eggplant and corn. While the company works all winter, the spring deal starts about the first week of April, starting with cucumbers and squash, followed by peppers.

Grapeman Farms is one of the largest independent producers of table grapes from Mexico during the Spring table grape season. Founded in 1974, Grapeman is a U.S. headquartered table grape farming company. With vineyards located in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, Grapeman owns and operates two state-of-the-art distribution facilities in Bakersfield, CA, which is where their sales office is located. It has administrative offices in Los Angeles.