The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl has become one of the most anticipated college football games of the season. From helping to launch the careers of NFL great like Josh Allen and BYU’s Zack Wilson, who threw 18 for 18 in 2018 beginning his historic rise as a must-watch quarterback, to the French Fry bath tradition that has been recognized by Yahoo! Sports “as one of the best traditions in all of sports,” the FIPB is exciting, unpredictable and entertaining.

Austin Fowler, co-owner of Fowler Farms, has been around apples for most of his life, and the company is an industry staple in New York.

The Wolcott, NY-based company offers approximately 20 different apple varieties, and also has several different types of ciders. All of it has been on the upswing in 2020.

In 2019, New York Apple Sales launched Yes! Apples, a consumer-friendly apple brand rooted in quality.

Last year Walmart began an autonomous vehicle pilot with Gatik to move customer orders on a two-mile route between a dark store (a store that stocks items for fulfillment but isn’t open to the public) and a Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, AR. Since then, it has safely driven more than 70,000 operational miles in autonomous mode with a safety driver.

Kalera, one of the fastest growing vertical farming companies in the United States, will begin construction on a facility in the Columbus, OH, area, slated to open in 2021. With this news, Kalera enters the Midwest, giving the region’s grocers, restaurants, theme parks, airports, schools and hospitals reliable access to clean, safe, nutritious, price-stable, long-lasting vertically grown greens. The facility will generate approximately 65 jobs.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

The following businesses and individuals are currently restricted from operating in the produce industry: