Consumers are always shopping for sweet onions, and Curry & Co. is pleased to include Texas 1015s as part of its year-round sweet onion program. “We believe that the demand for sweet onions is year-round,” President Matt Curry told The Produce News on March 24. “The Texas sweet onion crop is an important part of this year round mix. It is the first domestic sweet available in the new year and helps set the stage for the season.”

“The Canadian Produce Marketing Association Convention & Trade Show is smaller than the Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit, and that means we get to spend more time with our customers at the CPMA event,” said Ken Green, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Westmoreland Sales, headquartered in Leamington, ON. “The majority of the customers that we see at this show are Canadian.”

The 2013 CPMA expo will be held in Toronto April 17-19.

The Michigan Apple Committee, based in DeWitt, MI, has hired two account managers, who will facilitate the sale of Michigan apples in retail stores. Michael Bardon of Grand Ledge, MI, and Terry Braithwaite of East Wenatchee, WA, will begin work with the committee this month.

WASHINGTON — Farmers would not lose experienced workers, future workers would move through a new visa system, and enforcement of E-Verify would be delayed for agricultural operations under the new immigration reform bill hailed by farm workers and agricultural employers at an April 17 press conference.

Just days ago, the Agriculture Workforce Coalition and the United Farm Workers reached an agreement on agricultural labor provisions -- a signal of how fluid negotiations were on the immigration reform legislation right up until the bill was introduced this week.

Wada Farms Marketing Group, the exclusive marketer of “Dole Fresh” potatoes, onions and sweet potatoes, announced the opening of a new sales office in Raleigh, NC.

Wada, which currently has offices in Texas and Oregon, including its headquarters in Idaho Falls, ID, will be focusing their sweet potato program from this new location.

TORONTO — Participants of this year's Canadian Produce Marketing Association retail tour, here, visited four supermarkets April 17, but after the first two stops somehow found themselves walking around a 100-year-old locomotive repair shop and Toronto's historic Maple Leaf Gardens, which was home to the National Hockey League's Maple Leafs for nearly 70 years.