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1. Naturipe Farms Announces Glenn Daniels as Director of Business Development
Naturipe Farms has welcomed a new team member to enrich its Business Development department-Glenn Daniels, who will fill the position of Director of Business Development. In this new role, Daniels will oversee the expansion of the company’s Value-Added Fresh product lines.
2. Rural Kansas is Dying
Most Americans experience Kansas from inside their cards, eight hours of cruise-controlled tedium on their way to someplace else. Even residents of the state’s eastern power centers glimpse its vast rural spaces at 85mph, if at all.
3. Organic Farming Enhances Honeybee Colony Performance
Bees are valuable to humans not only because they produce honey, but also because they pollinate wildflowers and food crops. They exclusively eat nectar and pollen. So in areas where intensive agriculture is practiced, they suffer from the thin supply of flowers in May and June, when cultivated oilseed rape (colza) and sunflower are not in bloom.
4. World’s First 100% Organic Michelin-Starred Restaurant
Monaco, known for its luxury hotels and boutiques, is also making strides in its sustainability efforts. The principality’s new green initiatives include cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent compared to 1990 levels by 2030 and achieving total carbon neutrality by 2050.
5. Stemilt’s Artisan Organic Stone Fruit Train is One You Don’t Want to Miss
Retailers better make room for some of summer’s juiciest produce; Stemilt’s Artisan Organics™ peaches and nectarines. Stemilt’s organic peaches and nectarines will begin their season in mid-July with excellent quality and flavor anticipated.
