Mann Packing, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year as a grower-shipper-processor, redesigned its full line of fresh vegetable packaging to be more consumer focused and better represent the company’s third generation of family farmers.

SC-integrity Inc., a subsidiary of LoJack Corp., and Locus Traxx Worldwide have announced a partnership to advance and bolster supply chain and cargo shipment security and efficiency. Together, the organizations plan to release a series of bundled tracking and information solutions based on the Locus “SmartTraxxTM GO” tracking technology.

“Our asparagus acreage is up this year,” Tom Sheppard, president of Eastern Fresh Growers Inc., in Cedarville, NJ, told The Produce News. “The market is strong and prices are up. Some of the increase in demand could be related to nutrition, but another contributing factor is that other areas of the country have reduced acreage due to either weather issues or their asparagus acreage is in off-production status.”

The United Fresh Produce Association announced June 11 the donation of salad bars to 200 Midwest schools in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.  An estimated 100,000 Midwest students in both urban and rural school districts will benefit by having increased access to a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables every day at school lunch. With the goal of increasing students’ fruit and vegetable consumption, the donation represents just the start of the United Fresh Foundation’s multi-year “Let’s Move Salad Bars to Midwest Schools” campaign.

WASHINGTON — The stunning news that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost his primary bid Tuesday, June 10 may be bad news for hopes the House will take up immigration reform this year.

Cantor’s defeat stunned pundits Tuesday after he lost the Republican primary to David Brat, a Tea Party-backed candidate who works as an economics college professor.

"I think this is a scale-eight earthquake,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told CNN. “I think it will shock the Washington establishment; it will shock the House Republicans.”

Potential presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off the United Fresh Produce Association convention in Chicago, Tuesday afternoon, June 10, with a discussion of hard choices that she faced as secretary of state and the country faces in the future.