Union workers at Hunts Point Terminal Market say workers who handle fruits and vegetables at the market, located in South Bronx, NY, have voted to authorize a strike as the deadline for a new contract looms closer, according to a report by ABC affiliate WABC-TV New York.

The strike is scheduled to start on Friday morning, Jan. 16, just as the bell strikes past midnight.

Members of Teamsters Local 202 voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike Tuesday, Jan. 13, stopping work at the market as soon as Friday morning.

Price Chopper’s 2014 Check Out Hunger campaign, an annual giving program that was available at all 134 store locations, raised more than $47,000 and 29 tons of food for 12 local food banks and their affiliated kitchens and pantries in the chain’s six-state footprint: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont. 

Since The Nunes Co. introduced its innovative “BroccoLeaf” product to the marketplace, it has achieved great critical success as well as generating tremendous interest from the buyer community.

Doug Classen, sales manager for the Salinas, CA-based company and its Foxy brand of produce, said the specialty store organic buyers were the early adopters of Foxy Organic BroccoLeaf, but the mainline conventional retailers have also expressed a lot of interest.

On Dec. 29, The Organic Center, an independent non-profit research and education organization whose mission is to convene credible, evidence-based science on the health and environmental benefits of organic food and farming, and to communicate the findings to the public, issued a press release intended to help people ring in the New Year and truly turn over a healthy leaf.

In the release, the center transformed the top ten studies of 2014 into New Year’s resolutions that show how to improve the state of your diet and the state of our planet by choosing organic.

Potato movement for Monte Vista, CO, company Worley & McCullough picked up nicely during the Thanksgiving period, according to Grower Relations/Food Safety Officer Erin Cooper, who said the uptick in traffic was throughout the month of November.

“Thanksgiving was quite busy this year,” Cooper said in early January. “We saw an increase in traffic, but it was spread throughout November which made production more efficient for the warehouse.” She went on to say that “due to the influx of business in November, December slowed slightly.”