The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding $82.3 million to 65 recipients to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops — including fruits, vegetables, tree nuts and nursery crops — and support the industry’s producers. The funding is being awarded through USDA’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) and the Specialty Crop Multi-State Grant (SCMP) Program.

Though J&C Tropicals is a top grower and distributor of dragon fruit in the United States, it also deals in a number of other popular tropical fruits.

Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in New York, northern Pennsylvania and Vermont, announced that its annual campaign for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMNH) raised over $407,000.  The campaign which ran at all participating Tops Friendly Markets locations concluded Saturday, July 6, 2024.

In the small town of Wenatchee, WA, also known as the Apple Capital of the World, was a homestead that would one day grow into the soil it sat on.

As harvest of new crop potatoes gets set to kick off, the Colorado Potato Administrative Committee is ready to promote potatoes from its grower-members with tried-and-true programs as well as some new initiatives.

Jess Bradshaw, assistant director of the Center, CO-based organization, said all indications so far point to a high-quality crop with good sizing.