The 2014 California strawberry season is off to a strong start, according to Louis Ivanovich, vice president of West Lake Fresh, a Watsonville, CA-based brokerage specializing in strawberries year-round.

AMADO, AZ — Amado’s spectacular landscape might look familiar to fans of the 1955 film version of the musical “Oklahoma!” as, in the opening scene, cowboy Gordon MacRae appears riding his horse and singing “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning.”

ORLANDO, FL -- The Southeast Produce Council's 2014 Southern Exposure conference and trade show got under way Thursday, Feb. 27, with the annual golf tournament, which has been renamed the Tom Page Golf Classic. Close to 260 golfers registered this year, a record for the golf tournament, according to SPC Executive Director Terry Vorhees.

AB Acquisition LLC, which operates Albertson’s LLC and New Albertson’s Inc., announced that Rick Navarro, who had been the company’s chief financial officer since its inception in 2006, has been appointed chief administrative officer. Succeeding Navarro as the company’s CFO is Robert B. Dimond.

Spotlighting all-Idaho food items, the recent two-day Idaho Culinary Celebration in Chicago brought expanded market focus to its primary sponsors, USA Onions/Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Committee and the Idaho Potato Commission, as well as the Idaho State Department of Agriculture and a large group of Gem State agricultural companies and commodity groups.

Myra Goodman, co-founder of Earthbound Farm, a leading organic food company, will be a featured presenter at the fourth annual “Changing the Way We Eat” event, an upcoming TEDx Manhattan talk in New York City that addresses issues in sustainable food and farming.