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USDA extends Round 5 food box contracts

USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box contracts have been extended through April. USDA communications director Matt Herrick said AMS told...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Food box future on new Ag Secretary Vilsack’s plate

With President Biden’s Agriculture Secretary nomination Tom Vilsack expected to be confirmed Feb. 23, it’s worth looking at what we’ll...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Liberty Fruit’s long-term food box experience 

Liberty Fruit Co., BB #:105664 has had a USDA Farmers to Families Food Box contract from the beginning, and while it’s been...

4 years ago 3 minute read

Pacific Coast Fruit acquires NW rival

Portland, OR-based Pacific Coast Fruit BB #:100777 has acquired rival Northwest Specialty Produce, Inc., BB #:166976 Seattle. According to the...

4 years ago 1 minute read

The Produce Reporter Week in Review – January 29, 2021

Pamela and Greg talk food boxes and the FDA’s investigation into last fall’s E. coli outbreaks. Was the determination total...

4 years ago 1 minute read

USDA’s food box price focus

Many thought the USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box program would expire at the end of the year, or at...

4 years ago 3 minute read

The Produce Reporter Week in Review – January 22, 2021

Pamela and Greg discuss the latest in the Farmers to Families Food Box program, why AOC was at the Hunts...

4 years ago 1 minute read

USDA releases Round 5 Farmers to Families Food Box contracts

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced it has approved contracts for the additional purchase of Farmers to Families Food...

4 years ago 3 minute read

The Produce Reporter Week in Review – January 8, 2021

The produce industry was surprised with another round of the Farmers to Families Food Box program, Greg and Pamela talk...

4 years ago 1 minute read

A look at the food box future

In this hyper-political era, politics seem to affect everything, and the USDA Farmers to Families food box program is no...

4 years ago 3 minute read

USDA announces $1.5 billion for another round of food boxes

PRESS RELEASE: (Washington, D.C., January 4, 2021) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

4 years ago 5 minute read

San Antonio catering company embraces food box responsibility

When USDA’s 4th round of its Farmers to Families Food Box contracts were released at the end of October, some...

4 years ago 3 minute read

Boston wholesaler disappointed to lose food box contract

Costa Fruit & Produce Company BB #:101237 Boston, MA, was among the produce companies who got shut out of round...

4 years ago 3 minute read

The Produce Reporter Week in Review – November 6, 2020

Pamela breaks vacation to join Greg to talk about the latest USDA food box news. She also received some pineapple...

4 years ago 1 minute read

Many firms lost big food box contracts in Round 4

USDA made significant changes to the companies supplying Farmers to Families Food Boxes for round 4, which runs in November...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Florida grower-shipper will work 24-7 to fill $68MM food box contract

It may seem like a huge step up to go from packing 12,000 food boxes to 1.7 million from round...

4 years ago 2 minute read

USDA releases contract list for Round 4 of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program

Following U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s authorization of up to an additional $500 million for the Farmers to Families...

4 years ago 5 minute read

Missouri distributor plans big USDA food box expansion

Proffer Wholesale Produce, Inc., BB #:105572 Park Hills, MO, moved from packing about 30,000 boxes of fresh produce a week...

4 years ago 2 minute read

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