Culinary Harvest Organic Fingerlimes Livening Up Bars, Restaurants & Bakeries

September 17, 2012 Culinary Harvest

Culinary Harvest Organic Fingerlimes are turning up in the best of places!  From relative obscurity only a few years ago, our “citrus caviar” is now livening up drinks, seafood dishes, baked goods and much more. 

Dole Food Co. Partners With Hy-Vee Food Stores To Donate 5 Salad Bars In Central Iowa

September 17, 2012 Dole Food Company

Dole Food Company and Hy-Vee Food Stores celebrated the donation of five salad bars to schools in the central Iowa area at the United Community School in Boone, Iowa. The salad bars were donated as a part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative, which has donated more than 1,440 salad bars serving more than 720,000 children across the country.

AMHPAC 2012 – Writing The Story Of The Protected-Agriculture Industry

The 5th Annual Conference of the Mexico Association for Protected Horticulture (AMHPAC) Presidente Intercontinental Hotel, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, August 22-24, 2012, was attended by over 440 participants — growers, exporters, US shippers, US brokers and industry services providers — who support and work in the trade of produce from Mexico to the United States and beyond.  Recounting the history of AMHPAC, the association’s inception dated back to October 1999, where a focused group of 16 greenhouse producers of different states of the country had come together to establish an association that represented them in the search for common goals and that could enable the growth of this developing industry.

DFI Marketing Voluntarily Recalls Cantaloupe

September 17, 2012 FDA

DFI Marketing Inc. of Fresno, CA is voluntarily recalling cantaloupe because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Salmonella was found on a single sample of cantaloupe during routine testing conducted at a wholesale produce distribution center (terminal market) as part of a USDA testing program.

Lonrho Division Gains Exclusive Tuna Fishing Rights

Lonrho's Oceanfresh seafood division has been granted exclusive tuna fishing rights in Mozambique. Fish caught throughout the year will be processed into frozen steaks and loins for the USA market, said Lonrho.