The Idaho Potato Commission announced the grand prize winner of its 2025 Potato Lovers Month retail display contest, selecting Produce Manager Brian Castleberry of Remke Markets, which operates under the Fresh Encounter family of companies in the Cincinnati area. Matt Zapczynski, the IPC’s retail promotion director for the Northeast and Midwest, made the surprise presentation on June 5 to Castleberry at the Remke location in Crescent Springs, KY. For his efforts, Castleberry received a $1,000 gift card and a retro-style Victrola jukebox. The PLM contest is held annually and designed to inspire

Homegrown Organic Farms is celebrating a banner year of flavorful fruit, strong supply and continued growth across its stone fruit program. With exceptional early-season quality, sizing and volume, the company is expanding its organic offerings while introducing a limited-run conventional program to meet the diverse needs of its retail partners. With the addition of volume from Kliewer Family Farms, Homegrown is well-positioned to offer consistent, high-flavor fruit throughout the summer. The introduction of a small-scale conventional program provides additional flexibility and convenience for

Over the past year, HilverdaFlorist has worked on the restyling of various brands within its Pot, Patio & Garden portfolio, including Salvia Salgoon. The first plants featuring this new branding are now available Ton Vreugdenhil. Ton Vreugdenhil offers the varieties Lake Como, Lake Onega, Lake Flamingo and Lake Blueberry in pot size 19cm. This marks the second year that Vreugdenhil has been producing Salvia Salgoon, but now with printed pots that make the plants even more marketable. Salvia Salgoon is known for its impressive garden performance, uniform growth habit, heat tolerance and well

NuBerry Farms has solidified its position as a vertically integrated leader in the blueberry industry. NuBerry Farms manages 2,600 acres of blueberry production across Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina and Michigan, supported by packing facilities in Georgia, New Jersey and Michigan to ensure a consistent, year-round supply. The company’s strategic focus on domestic and imported blueberries has seen significant growth, especially since the launch of a refreshed branding campaign for NuBerry two years ago. The packaging features eye-catching yellow labels for conventional blueberries

Produce shipper-marketer Divine Flavor, along with its principal grower and one of Mexico’s largest table grape producers, Grupo Alta, recently hosted Sun World International at Sonora vineyards for a special showcase of Ruby Rush® (Sugrafiftythree variety), the company’s newest red seedless grape brand. The event served as an exclusive opportunity for select Mexican growers and licensees, including Divine Flavor’s grower-partners, to learn more about the promising new variety, which is being positioned not just as a solution for the early-season grape window but as a new benchmark in quality

Voeks Inc., a leading innovator in agricultural and horticultural irrigation and sustainable water technology growing solutions, proudly announces the appointment of Christopher Higgins, president and co-founder of Hort Americas and founder of Urban Ag News, as its new industry adviser. This strategic addition to the advisory team underscores Voeks Inc.’s commitment to accelerating innovation and fostering sustainable growth in the controlled environment agriculture sector. With over two decades of experience in horticultural supply and greenhouse systems, Chris Higgins has been at the