avocados

The Produce Reporter Week in Review – December 6, 2019

Pamela and Greg are coming to you from the Blue Book Services headquarters in Carol Stream, IL, with this edition...

5 years ago 1 minute read

Rouses goes for World’s Largest Avocado display

The World’s Largest Avocado display being set up at Rouses Market BB #:153701 in New Orleans comes with some of...

5 years ago 1 minute read

APEAM counters bloody cartel story from LA Times

The Los Angeles Times ran the story, “Inside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industry,” November 24, and...

5 years ago 4 minute read

WP Produce debuts refreshed Desbry avocado logo, worker welfare program

PRESS RELEASE: Miami, FL (November 5, 2019) — WP Produce BB #:143203, a family-owned, grower-packer-shipper of Desbry® tropical produce has...

5 years ago 4 minute read

Crimes against guacamole, Part 2

I promise, I make good guacamole. My family loves it. My friends love it. So, why do I keep doing...

5 years ago 1 minute read

California projects 60 percent larger avocado crop for 2020

ANAHEIM, CA – California avocado growers project a big rebound in 2020. Jan DeLyser, vice president of marketing for the...

5 years ago 2 minute read

Hazel Technologies partners with WP Produce to extend avocado shelf life

PRESS RELEASE CHICAGO (October 16, 2019) – Hazel Technologies Inc., a company developing new, USDA-funded post-harvest technologies to extend shelf-life...

6 years ago 4 minute read

Maui family grows world record avocado

Hawaiian avocados have made news the past few years with some enormous fruit, and now a local family can claim...

6 years ago 1 minute read

Mexican avocados: En route to 2 million tons of exports by 2030

Many times called “green gold,” Mexican avocados are one of the most appreciated agricultural products in the world allowing Mexico...

6 years ago 1 minute read

Colombian avocado exports continue to rise

Avocados continue to be one of Colombia’s flagship export products outside of the mining industry. El Dinero reports, through information...

6 years ago 2 minute read

Kroger to offer Apeel avocados nationwide

CINCINNATI AND SANTA BARBARA, CA (September 18, 2019) — The Kroger Co. BB #:100073, America’s largest grocery retailer, and Apeel...

6 years ago 4 minute read

Greenyard USA/Seald Sweet to offer year-round avocados via Valvilla Produce

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 17th, 2019 Vero Beach, FL —Greenyard USA/Seald Sweet BB #:161579 has announced a long-term strategic partnership...

6 years ago 4 minute read

Chilean Avocados Importers Association launches digital calendars

PRESS RELEASE: San Carlos California – Avocados are well known for being a staple in many American households, but now avocado...

6 years ago 2 minute read

Make way for loaf-size avocados

Somebody tell Trader Joe’s that Teeny Tiny Avocados are out and Ridiculous Huge fruit is in. A few years ago,...

6 years ago 2 minute read

Apeel Sciences unveils supplier network

PRESS RELEASE SANTA BARBARA, CA (August 15, 2019) — Apeel Sciences, BB #:345580 one of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative...

6 years ago 6 minute read

Avocado growth in Latin America

As avocados grow in popularity across the world, several Latin American countries continue to rise in the production and/or exporting...

6 years ago 3 minute read

Beware the guacamole imposters

With a short California avocado crop, Mexico’s Flor Loca behaving, well…loca…, the wholesale avocado market is high. So high trucks...

6 years ago 1 minute read

Avocados: Turning people to crime

“The whole country seems to be in love with the avocado,” says Brian Niccol, CEO of the Chipotle fast-food chain....

6 years ago 2 minute read

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