“Wholesum Family Farms is owned by the Crisantes family who has been growing and producing and selling produce for three generations,” said Anthony Totta, marketing and business development consultant for the Nogales, AZ-based company.

The company, previously known as Cris-P Produce, was founded by Miguel Crisantes Gatzionis who, according to the company website, emigrated from Greece to Mexico in the 1920s and started farming in Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1930.

For the past 22 years, the company has been growing produce organically, Mr. Totta said.

Rainier Fruit Co. announced the addition of Andy Tudor to its sales and marketing staff, creating a new position as director of business development.

Jessica Flaim, Cindy Flaim and Brenda Flaim of R&R Flaim/Next Generation Produce.

California strawberry production has basically become a year-round proposition, but the early-December period still has sketchy supplies, which has led to a significant demand-exceeds-supply situation and skyrocketing prices for the current time period.

The market should ease up a bit over the next several weeks, but a strong market should take grower-shippers into the new-crop season.

On Dec. 5, the U.S. Federal State Market News Service was reporting flat prices in the $25 range, with California, Mexico and Florida each chipping in with minimal supplies.

For the seventh consecutive year, Southern Specialties was recognized as having the highest air cargo volume of Paruvian asparagus into the United Sates.

Rocket Farms Herbs Inc., a subsidiary of Monterey Peninsula Horticulture Inc., has acquired the assets of HerbThyme Farms, the largest cut herb producer in the United States.

The acquisition supports Rocket Farms Herbs' growth strategy to innovate new products, enter new categories and expand into new channels of distribution, according to a Dec. 7 press release issued by Rocket Farms. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.