When Audrey Desnoyers first joined the produce industry, she was hired to drive a bright green Volkswagen Beetle around the eastern United States as part of a team that introduced consumers to a new brand of kiwifruit. Now, after nearly 15 years spent driving sales of Oppy products, she has been named as The Oppenheimer Group's new national business development manager.

Texas is losing farmland at the rate of 200 acres a day. At the same time, the state’s agricultural population is graying. Drought is a constant worry and an omnipresent threat. Yet the Lone Star State is doing more with less, feeding a growing population and much of the rest of the country via produce grown in the state or in neighboring Mexico and distributed through a vast network that stretches from the heart of the Rio Grande Valley to Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas’s gateway to the rest of America.

With summer-like temperatures still holding on in the Sacramento area in October, the Great Big Idaho Potato Truck rolled into town for a stop at a Raley’s location. The timing of the visit was significant, as it helped the retailer gear up for the fall season, when potatoes occupy a more prominent position in its merchandising efforts.

Wish Farms, a leading grower-shipper of strawberries and year-round supplier of blueberries, attributes some of this year's growing decisions to consumer feedback.

Kelly Craner of B&C Fresh Sales with Yolanda Guerrero of City Of Hope.

To-Jo Mushrooms has entered its 133-acre farm site located in Elk Township, PA, into the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program.

Chester County Commissioners and the Chester Country Agricultural Land Preservation Board have preserved 29,834 acres of farmland throughout the county Country. The To-Jo farm site is the 343rd to enter into the programs for farmland preservation and the 91st to enter into the Challenge Grant Easement Purchase Program by selling the development rights.