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“The new affordable Fingerlime packaging is catching on”, notes an exuberant Richard Leibowitz, President of Culinary Specialty Produce. We will have them in some stores for New Year’s and that’s perfect. Now that we have found a reasonable way for retailers to market the “caviar lime”, we want to make the buyer and the consumer aware of all the possibilities this amazing citrus has to offer.” …

The yonanas® frozen fruit dessert, a healthy treat with the look and feel of soft-serve ice cream and as little as 100 calories per serving, has been selected as one of 10 finalists for the 2012 Fruit Logistica Innovation Award recognizing the most significant new fresh fruit-related product or service from around the globe. …

Citrus growers in California's San Joaquin Valley have spent about $87 million fighting off crop-damaging frost as a cold front has swept through the region this month. …

Shrimp cocktail and premium juices set out in the lunchroom at the new apple-packing plant in Huron, Wayne County, suggested good times. And that would be just about right for New York's apple country, where a building boom is reflecting a major shift in the region's apple industry.

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The Agriculture Department says North Dakota's potato crop is down 10 percent over the past year. North Dakota growers, dealers and processors held 12.6 million hundredweight of potatoes in storage on Dec. 1. That's down 10 percent from a year ago and down 3 percent from 2009. …