The Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops program, first announced in December 2024, has increased its funds to American growers from $2 billion to $2.65 billion.

The downward planting trend is reflected across other key potato-producing states reflecting significant contract cuts by potato processors.

Pearnel Charles Jr., Jamaica’s Minister of Labour and Social Security, enjoys a moment with some of the temporary foreign workers departing in late April for Canada.

The Food and Agriculture Organization, celebrating its 80th anniversary, has marked May 30 in honour of one of the world’s staple foods.

Harvest CROO, based in Tampa, Florida, has announced that automated harvest field trials have proven to be on par with human harvesting in a commercial picking strawberry operation.