Del Fresco Produce Ltd. has teamed up with Roundy’s Supermarkets to participate in a Kraft co-promotion “Grilled Cheese with Tomato Sandwich.” Del Fresco will be providing beefsteak and cluster tomatoes.

The Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation, a Colorado nonprofit corporation, announced the recipient of the 2013 breast cancer research grant: Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, has been awarded a $30,000 grant to fund breast cancer research.

RIO RICO, AZ — Upon becoming a produce grower in 1960, Malu Crespo’s grandfather, Jorge Crespo, chose not to become a mango grower “because it was too easy,” said Malu. “He said, ‘You have a big tree that you water. Then you harvest and take the mangos to the packing shed. It is too easy.’”

“When we were in the peak season, my father used to say, ‘If your grandpa would have known all the hard work we need to do to export the mangos, trust me, he would have exported mangos!’“ Malu noted in late February.

In 1964, Marvin Davis came to Texas to launch a family farm. A half-century later, he and son Mike Davis head up the thriving Tex Mex Sales LLC in Weslaco, TX, which has become a top year-round supplier of red, white and sweet onions from the Davises’ own farms and those of grower-partners.

SuperValu Inc. announced that two of its directors, Mark Neporent and Lenard Tessler, have stepped down from the board of directors effective March 6.

Neporent and Tessler were both appointed to the board in 2013 as designees of Symphony Investors LLC, a Cerberus Capital Management L.P.-led investor consortium, under the terms of the Tender Offer Agreement entered into with Symphony Investors and Cerberus in connection with SuperValu’s sale of five banners to an affiliate of Symphony Investors.

The green beefsteak tomato will lead the way to the start of the 2014 greenhouse production at Nature Fresh Farms in Leamington, ON.