Teri Miller, produce category manager at Delhaize America, headquartered in Salisbury, NC, will be the honored June 12 at the United Fresh Produce Association's annual Reception Honoring Women in Produce during the United Fresh 2014 convention in Chicago.

The Environmental Working Group's latest Dirty Dozen list unfairly targets apples and needlessly scares consumers about eating fresh fruits and vegetables, according to Marilyn Dolan, executive director of the Alliance for Food & Farming.

For the fourth year, apples topped the list of most pesticide-contaminated produce, EWG reports in its annual Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce.

New and exciting things are always happening at Baldor Specialty Foods, headquartered in the Bronx, NY.

“We’re announcing the official opening of our Washington, DC, facility,” Michael Muzyk, president, told The Produce News. “Although we’ve owned the building for about two years, during its renovation we used it only as a cross-dock. We built it out using the same high criteria that went into the construction of our Boston and our Hunts Point [in New York] facilities.”

Cleaning up the 2013 shipping season on April 1, Maverick Potato Co. in Center, CO, is headed into its second season with shed upgrades and plans for increased production.

Company President Roger Christensen, a veteran San Luis Valley potato grower/shipper, said the company had a great start with the 2013 crop, running 200,000-plus cwt through the shed.

High retail prices and increasing supplies have resulted in a cooling down of a cauliflower market that was hot during much of April.

Denny Donovan, sales manager of Fresh Kist Produce LLC in Santa Maria, CA, said warm winter weather was the genesis of the situation.

"A warm winter helped speed up the cauliflower crop. In March, we were harvesting the cauliflower that was supposed to be sold during the first two weeks of April. That moved everything up, and for the past two-and-a-half weeks cauliflower has been very short," he said the last day of April.

Shuman Produce Inc., a leading grower-shipper of Vidalia sweet onions, headquartered in Reidsville, GA, has promoted its long-time marketing coordinator to marketing director and has added three new members to its staff.