With July 4th quickly approaching, the Georgia watermelon harvest season is nearing its peak production time. “Now is the time to go visit your grocery store or local farmers market and purchase a fresh Georgia watermelon,” said Georgia Watermelon Association President, Rob Greene. A watermelon grower in Arabi, GA, Greene said this production season has produced a historically sweet, crisp and delicious product. Growers in Georgia have been cultivating their watermelon vines since March. From planting to harvest, watermelons typically need 90 days to grow and ripen. With more than 18,000 acres

In celebration of National Pollinator Week, The GIANT Co. today announced it has completed a seven-acre pollinator-friendly solar field at its corporate headquarters at 1149 Harrisburg Pike in Carlisle, PA. This initiative is the first of its kind for a grocery retailer and creates a synergistic environment which contributes both to clean energy and support for bee and pollinator populations needed within the agriculture industry. Honey bees pollinate $15 billion worth of food crops in the United States each year, yet populations have been experiencing a decline for more than three decades

I’d like to focus on an insightful article I just recently read titled Is it time to Slow Your Marketing? I touched on a similar topic several weeks ago, and since we as a nation are starting to open up again in an attempt to get back to normal (whatever that means), it is worth diving deeper into the subject matter. That being said, let me provide you a little context in an effort to clarify my approach to this subject. I consider myself not only a marketing professional but an educator as well. Having taught the subject for about 14 years at Hartnell College and having spoken at numerous

On Friday, June 19, nearly 4,000 tons of fresh fruit products from South Africa arrived in the Port of Philadelphia. The M/V Everest Bay, operated by Seatrade, docked at the Gloucester Marine Terminal in Gloucester City, NJ, and unloaded some 3,800 pallets of clementines and navel oranges, kicking off the start of the summer citrus season for local consumers. “We are proud to continue this fruitful partnership with summer citrus providers in South Africa,” said Leo Holt, president and chief executive officer of Holt Logistics, Operator of Gloucester Terminals, LLC. “Keeping our food supply

While I was doing some shopping with my wife in our local supermarket, a frustrated customer was angrily telling me his experience as he pointed to a one-way traffic decal on the floor. “I wanted an item in the coffee section that was a few feet away from entering the aisle,” he explained. “A store clerk told me the aisle was one-way traffic only. I had to go all the way around down one aisle and up the next just to get the coffee which was only a simple reach.” More than one customer has complained about the one-way traffic in stores. Most gripe about the fact that it now takes them much

A panel of experts reported that organic produce is outperforming the conventional produce category at retail during the pandemic. Speaking at the Organics LIVE general session that took place during the virtual United Fresh LIVE! produce show on Wednesday, June 17, panelists Brian Kocher, president and CEO of the Castellini Group of Companies in Cincinnati said that almost all produce experienced a well-publicized spike in demand when shelter-in-place orders began to be rolled out across the country. Consumers were hoarding and were especially grabbing hardware produce items like potatoes and