Food Lion is offering customers a chance to win multiple prizes through its Ultimate Tailgate Sweepstakes, including a new truck, a 55-inch television and gaming system, and Food Lion gift cards.

Now through Feb. 4, customers who use their personal MVP card and purchase at least four participating products will automatically be entered for a chance to win. A complete list of participating products is available in stores and online at http://www.foodlion.com.

Hollandia Produce LP, the grower of "Live Gourmet" and "Grower Pete’s" brands announced that all of its living lettuce and living cress products are now Non-GMO Project Verified.

Yakima Valley fruit company E.W. Brandt & Sons is expanding its operations and re-launching its brand as "RemBrandt Masterpiece Fruit." 

Bland Farms, a sweet onion category leader, plans to turn heads at the Southeast Produce Council’s annual Southern Exposure with the release of its newest fresh produce product offering for 2014, sweet potatoes.

To date, Bland Farms has been strictly a grower, packer and shipper of sweet onions and sweet onion products, but plans to offer a sweet potato program to customers in 2014, viewing Southern Exposure as the perfect setting from which to share the news.

L&M Cos. kicked off its 50th anniversary a little early. Although the company was founded Jan. 10, 1964, by Joe McGee, who serves as chairman, it cut a cake to share with customers and friends at the 2013 PMA Fresh Summit last October.

Going into its third year of aligned sales through Wada Farms Marketing of Idaho, Colorado’s Worley & McCullough Inc. continues to keep pace with food-safety certification as movement of its russet-based volume stays steady.

According to Erin Cooper, grower relations/food-safety officer at the fourth- and fifth-generation family-owned operation near Monte Vista, CO, Worley & McCullough set its sights on reaching GlobalGAP compliance for the warehouse as well as “all growers who run their potatoes through the packing shed.”