tomatoes

Tomatoes: Old favorites and new flavors keep the category surging

Love apple? Wolf peach? Call it what you may, the tomato is one of the world’s most popular produce items...

3 years ago 5 minute read

NatureSweet seeks specialty tomato exceptions from the tomato suspension agreement

NatureSweet has submitted a request to the Department of Commerce for a “Changed Circumstance Review,” which would release certain greenhouse-grown...

3 years ago 3 minute read

ProduceIQ: Mexican crossings drive market prices

After four weeks of descent, the ProduceIQ Index rebounded by +2 percent. Overall, produce prices tend to increase from the...

3 years ago 3 minute read

ProduceIQ: Prices are ‘stuffed’ on low yields and a strong Thanksgiving pull

You may have things to be thankful for this year, but fresh produce buyers are struggling to count their blessings....

3 years ago 5 minute read

EFI-certified NatureSweet tomatoes earn Award for Excellence

WASHINGTON — Equitable Food Initiative is proud to announce that EFI-certified NatureSweet Tomatoes has earned a Communitas Award for Excellence...

4 years ago 4 minute read

Pure Flavor expands organic line

Leamington, ON (October 27th, 2021) – Pure Flavor® BB #:170379 is introducing two new fresh products to its line of...

4 years ago 4 minute read

ProduceIQ: Markets absorb chaos to achieve virtual balance

(Week #42, ending October 22nd)  ProduceIQ Index:  $1.02/pound, flat over prior week Between yet another Mexican hurricane, “Rick,” and Zuckerberg’s Metaverse,...

4 years ago 4 minute read

CPB blocks tomato imports from two Mexican farms due to forced labor

WASHINGTON —Effective Oct. 21, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at all U.S. ports of entry will detain fresh...

4 years ago 3 minute read

ProduceIQ: Rain in Mexico stresses markets as harvests transition south

Veggies seeking sunshine on their vacation southward are sorely disappointed. Rain in Mexico is a challenge to quality and a...

4 years ago 4 minute read

ProduceIQ: Fall produce markets require more than courage

Between severe drought in the West and a rainy summer in the East, tomato supply can’t catch a break. Across...

4 years ago 4 minute read

NatureSweet continues to grow its seasonal product line-up

SAN ANTONIO, TX – NatureSweet, BB #:152351 the snacking tomato category leader in the fresh produce industry, launches its new...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Domestic tomato prices rise on low volume

A stormy summer has limited tomato volume coming from the East Coast, which has caused prices to rise. California production...

4 years ago 2 minute read

ProduceIQ: Rain from Hurricane Ida to disrupt supply chain

Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm, blasted into the Southeastern U.S. yesterday. Rain from Ida will continue beyond New Orleans...

4 years ago 5 minute read

ProduceIQ: Dual hurricanes threaten growing regions

Northerners have one less excuse for not moving to Florida, as it seems the Northeast isn’t immune to the occasional...

4 years ago 5 minute read

Guatemalan vegetable imports on the rise

For immediate release — August 18, 2021. The Guatemalan Produce Trade Association reports fresh vegetable imports from Guatemala have increased...

4 years ago 1 minute read

ProduceIQ: Anything but business as usual in California

Demand is outpacing supply in California, and it has nothing to do with any produce commodity the state is known...

4 years ago 4 minute read

Packaging inching toward sustainable

AUSTIN, TX – Prior to the pandemic, the produce industry spent a lot of time talking about more sustainable packaging...

4 years ago 2 minute read

ProduceIQ: Limes get wet and rise to the occasion

Gold medal Olympians Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel aren’t the only ones getting soaked this week; record rain in Mexico...

4 years ago 4 minute read

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