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Karen Caplan, President & CEO at Frieda’s, Inc., headquartered in Los Alamitos, California, and the first female chairperson of the United Fresh Board of Directors, will be the honoree and featured speaker at the Reception Honoring Women in Produce, Tuesday, June 9, at United Fresh 2015 in Chicago. …

An instantly redeemable coupon offer is available on Concord Foods new and nutritious smoothie mixes. Consumers will enjoy $0.55 off with the purchase of three smoothie mixes between June 1 and August 31, 2015. The smoothie mixes include the Kale & Apple and Blueberry Banana flavors. …

On 4/19/15, National Garlic Day, Christopher Ranch posted our love of garlic on our Facebook page. We knew a lot of people loved garlic but we had no idea there were this many fans! Over 15,000 people viewed our post extolling the virtues California Garlic. Nice to know we are not alone in our love for Garlic. …

FirstFruits Marketing of Washington (FirstFruits) ends its fifth annual Take a Bite Out of Hunger™ program at select retailers with a collective donation of 330,000 pounds of apples to local food banks. This brings the total program donation to approximately 1,250,000 pounds over five seasons. …

After several tough winters, Minnesota and Wisconsin apple growers are predicting a healthy, bountiful apple crop in 2015 thanks to an exceptionally strong, early bloom across regional orchards. Apple tree blossoms are one of the first seasonal indicators of tree health for the coming summer and fall growing and harvest seasons. …