Since The Nunes Co. introduced its innovative “BroccoLeaf” product to the marketplace, it has achieved great critical success as well as generating tremendous interest from the buyer community.

Doug Classen, sales manager for the Salinas, CA-based company and its Foxy brand of produce, said the specialty store organic buyers were the early adopters of Foxy Organic BroccoLeaf, but the mainline conventional retailers have also expressed a lot of interest.

On Dec. 29, The Organic Center, an independent non-profit research and education organization whose mission is to convene credible, evidence-based science on the health and environmental benefits of organic food and farming, and to communicate the findings to the public, issued a press release intended to help people ring in the New Year and truly turn over a healthy leaf.

In the release, the center transformed the top ten studies of 2014 into New Year’s resolutions that show how to improve the state of your diet and the state of our planet by choosing organic.

Potato movement for Monte Vista, CO, company Worley & McCullough picked up nicely during the Thanksgiving period, according to Grower Relations/Food Safety Officer Erin Cooper, who said the uptick in traffic was throughout the month of November.

“Thanksgiving was quite busy this year,” Cooper said in early January. “We saw an increase in traffic, but it was spread throughout November which made production more efficient for the warehouse.” She went on to say that “due to the influx of business in November, December slowed slightly.”

Tamas Houlihan is now the execute director of the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association. He succeeds Duane Maatz.

Although he officially took the post on Dec. 4, 2014, Houlihan isn’t exactly a stranger to the job in Antigo, WI. He had been the interim executive director since August. Furthermore, Houlihan told The Produce News that his recent appointment ended his third term as interim executive director. He also had that role in 2000 and 2008.

Despite its economic struggles in recent years, the future of Detroit is looking bright as the city’s 16-month-long municipal bankruptcy case, the largest in U.S. history, officially ended Wednesday, Dec. 10.

Although things are certainly taking a turn for the better, the city still has a long road ahead, reversing decades of population loss and restoring its economy to what it once was.