Farm Assurer Profile: Agricultural Production Safety – Helping California Growers Keep Their Fields Safe

August 7, 2013 GLOBALG.A.P.

Helping yet another farmer get through regulatory demands and certification paperwork is what gets Doug Mattes, owner of Agricultural Production Safety, LLC, waking up excited to get to work everyday.

The Cotton Candy Grape: A Sweet Spin On Designer Fruit

August 7, 2013 Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR

At about $6 per pound, this sounds like a lucrative gimmick that takes a perfectly pleasant fruit and jazzes it up into junk food. But when we dug deeper into the grape’s origins, we found that its creator is actually trying to do the opposite.

IFCO, CA Produce Growers To Help Ag Against Hunger Feed The Needy

August 7, 2013 IFCO SYSTEMS

IFCO SYSTEMS, the global leader in Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) for fresh products, today announced that it is donating containers to Ag Against Hunger, a nonprofit that provides people in need with fresh and nutritious surplus produce from local fields. Ag Against Hunger (agagainsthunger.org) will use IFCO RPCs to more efficiently transport fruit and vegetables donated by growers in the Salinas area to food banks throughout California and to others in five western states via the organization’s warehouse cooler facility.

Seafood Is 'Heart Healthy' Food

Seafood is an ideal “heart healthy” food, according to the American Heart Association, the Mayo Clinic, the Harvard School of Public Health and others.

Business Q&A: High Liner Foods Aims For Sustainable Fishing

Once known as National Sea Products, the organization was transformed in the 1990s from a fishing company that sold the fish it caught to a marketing company that finds and prepares the fish its customers want.