On May 7, 2020, Agustin Lopez walked out of his job at Allan Bros. He was one of a group of workers that went on strike over the company’s response to COIVD-19. A year later, Lopez still works at the ...

Update: Two of the former Prima Wawona packing facilities have been purchased by two longtime farmers as part of a joint venture partnership. The fallout from the collapse of Prima Wawona, at one time ...

A state investigation found that workers at a Pasco, Wash., fruit packing and agricultural services company filed fraudulent ...

UNION GAP, Wash. — The latest totally new world-class apple packing plant in the Pacific Northwest opened this fall on the southwestern edge of Union Gap, just south of Yakima. Borton Fruit Co. is ...

The pear season was well underway in the Hood River valley when the coronavirus pandemic hit Oregon and Washington. “The initial impact was fear and uncertainty,” said Doug Gibson vice president of ...

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – An old citrus packing plant now serves as the home for a local family-owned business, Florida Paints. The facility in Winter Garden was built in the early 1920s and packed some ...

A worker at a fruit packing plant in rural Tulare County where some employees had coronavirus has died. Legacy Packing and Cold Storage in Dinuba first confirmed two employees with COVID-19 in May, ...

Step into a supermarket and you will likely see plenty of plastic net packaging, conveniently bagging together onions, oranges, limes or lemons. That might not be ideal for the environment but it is ...