The online grocery market totaled $6.8 billion in sales for May 2024, a 0.4 percent dip versus last year. Despite a year-over-year gain in overall monthly active users (MAU), sales growth was restrained by a pullback in order frequency across all receiving methods versus last year, according to the latest Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopper Survey.

Papen Farms historically has grown approximately 2,000 acres of green beans, cabbage and sweet corn, with about half of that land dedicated to the latter. 

However, in 2024, the company made the decision not to grow any spring cabbage.

Fourth-generation fresh potato and vegetable supplier Bushwick Commission continues to show its commitment to supporting the communities in which it does business by recently concluding a locally grown promotion in Virginia to benefit the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA.

Harvest is in full swing for Skylar Rae cherries, bringing the highly anticipated sweet, crunchy, bi-colored cherries to shelves for a profitable short season.

Sarah Barkley, domestic sales at CMI Orchards, said demand is skyrocketing each year as more consumers discover “The Sweetest Cherry You’ll Ever Eat.”

The National Watermelon Promotion Board announced its call for entries for its 16th annual Watermelon Retail Merchandising Contest. Retail chains, independent retailers and commissaries are invited to compete for over $10,000 in cash and prizes.

Benny (Buck) DeTroy Shuman, founder of Shuman Farms, the largest growers of Vidalia onions, died May 31. He was 91.