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Renaissance Food Group, a fresh food company that creates, markets and distributes a portfolio of healthy, high quality lifestyle food products, recently hired Dennis Schwakopf as vice president of innovation. In the new position, Schwakopf will manage all product innovation for the company. …

To lend greater support across its far-reaching supply chain through technology assets, traceability expertise, and marketing focus The Oppenheimer Group promoted three members of its management team last month. …

For the 14th consecutive year, leading researchers from the United States, Europe and Canada gathered in Bar Harbor, Maine, to collaborate and share information to continue efforts to understand and discover the benefits of many of the compounds found in Wild Blueberries. …

Much of New Jersey's remaining peach crop survived the winds and rains of Hurricane Irene, according to Jerry Frecon, Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Cooperative Extension, speaking from Heilig Orchards, where he was inspecting the peach orchards. “While there was some fruit that blew off trees we escaped with less loss than originally expected in southern New Jersey,” said Frecon. We have plenty of ripe fruit being harvested, which will be available for the next 15 days. …

RedLine Solutions has been working with leading companies to automate Fresh Produce operations for over a decade. This webinar will offer you practical solutions on how to automate your packing shed to help you meet PTI Compliance, including how you can use a Vision System to identify carton contents for in-line print and apply on the packing line. …