Growing the finest berries in the world requires care, commitment and dedication. Driscoll’s patented berry varieties are primarily developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods. Our berries are grown with great care by our farmers, hand-picked, then carefully packed in the field to ship, all to ensure freshness and quality.

True® is the worldwide leader in the diverse and innovative production of organic fertilizers. We are a family-owned business that respectfully treats our growers’ land as if it were our own. We are passionately dedicated to manufacturing the highest quality, safest, and easiest-to-handle organic fertilizers developed exclusively to help you grow your business. Owner and CEO Jake Evans started the organic fertilizer business in the late 1990s. Learning from the ground up, he used the fundamentals of agronomy and soil fertility to develop True Organic Products’ (TOP) first pelleted and liquid fertilizers.

True’s commitment to Product Safety is evident in our full-time on-site food safety staff who oversee all of our processes and procedures. With stringent rules for separation, treatment, and testing, all of our outgoing products exceed industry requirements.

Our full-time research and development team is evaluating new inputs and constantly gathering new data through field, greenhouse, and laboratory trials to further our knowledge and allow True to create only the best organic fertilizers possible, for every crop.

True® takes pride in manufacturing organic fertilizers proven to build and strengthen our growers’ soil with every application. Our products are designed to function in diverse geographic and environmental conditions. Agronomic programs that use our products will improve the soil and provide the nutrients that will enhance the health of your crops and increase your overall yield.

At True Organic Products, we believe helping our growers build their business extends beyond what goes in the ground. We believe in contributing to the overall health and well-being of the communities we serve through the support of various non-profits and other philanthropic efforts.

Since its founding in 2003, the company has grown to the largest and most sought-after manufacturer of organic fertilizer on the West Coast. True founder, Jake Evans, remains hands-on with the company’s day-to-day interests, committed to the idea that a biologically balanced healthy soil makes for healthy plants, environment, and community.

“I’ve always felt success comes with being honest,” Jake says. “Fulfilling our commitments is a TOP priority.”

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA), based in Ottawa, Ontario, is a not-for-profit organization that represents all segments of the Canadian produce supply chain, from growers and distributors to retailers and technology suppliers. CPMA’s members are responsible for 90% of fresh fruit and vegetable sales in Canada. Through its extensive membership, CPMA advocates for policies, standards, and innovations that support the growth of the sector and ensure Canadians have access to fresh produce.

This year, CPMA celebrates its 100th anniversary, marking a century of service to the industry. Over the years, the organization has evolved alongside changing market dynamics, technologies, and consumer preferences, highlighting its resilience and significant role in shaping Canada's produce sector. This milestone reflects CPMA's ongoing commitment to its members and its advocacy for a sustainable future.

CPMA also plays a key role in addressing challenges such as food safety, sustainability, trade regulations, and supply chain efficiency. By collaborating with government bodies, industry leaders, and international partners, CPMA ensures that consumers across Canada receive fresh produce safely and efficiently.

The fresh fruit and vegetable industry is a critical driver of economic activity, providing thousands of jobs and supporting local businesses across Canada. From rural farming communities to urban retailers, the economic impact of the industry touches nearly every region of the country. CPMA works to highlight the importance of this sector and advocates for policies that support its continued growth and success.

Canada is one of the largest importers of U.S. agricultural products, including fresh fruits and vegetables. This robust trade partnership ensures that U.S. growers have access to a reliable, near-market destination for their produce. This is especially critical for perishable crops, where timely distribution is key to maintaining quality and minimizing waste. In this sense, Canada’s role as a trading partner supports U.S. growers’ economic stability, providing a stable and accessible market just across the border.

In addition to its economic benefits, the produce sector also plays a crucial role in improving the health and productivity of Canadians. CPMA is committed to promoting the benefits of healthy eating through educational initiatives, partnerships, and campaigns that encourage Canadians to eat more fresh produce. By improving public awareness and access to nutritious food, the association contributes to a healthier, more productive population, further strengthening the nation’s overall well-being.

Through its advocacy, collaboration, and education efforts, CPMA is helping shape a healthier, more prosperous future for both the produce industry and Canadians as a whole.

In the agricultural industry, Provision's cloud software emerges as a vital asset for growers of practically any commodity. By simplifying the prospect of digitizing food safety and quality assurance, Provision offers growers a way to shed the burden of paper reports and clumsy binders. In a competitive market with constantly changing customer requirements and government regulations, Provision offers a way to streamline documentation for compliance and certification. More and more food safety managers are turning to smart solutions like automated notifications to avoid missed forms, automated rules to ensure compliance, and automating reports to simplify audit prep during harvest season. Tailored to suit the needs of small- and mid-sized operations, Provision provides agile solutions that seamlessly digitize documentation. In a world where data is king, Provision empowers growers to navigate audits more efficiently, while also harnessing insights for enhanced process control.

Nature Safe Fertilizers offers organic growers and turf producers a complete line of nitrogen-rich, high-analysis fertilizers, backed by the power of our parent company Darling Ingredients.

A global leader in rendering, Darling Ingredients’ vertical integration offers Nature Safe access to a full line of recycled animal products, allowing us to provide premium fertilizers, reduce landfill and minimizing emissions. With manufacturing plants across the United States, we provide consistent, high-quality formulations to all domestic growing regions.

 Benefits of Nature Safe fertilizers:

• Animal proteins offer some of the lowest C:N ratios. Our fertilizers become available to plants quicker than other organic fertilizers.
• Our focus on Pellet Durability Index (PDI) ensures high-quality pellets with minimal fines that resist breakdown, leading to improved transportation, storage, handling and application characteristics.
• Our products promote soil disease management.
• Our vertically integrated supply chain provides reliable, consistent formulations season after season.

Our products are created with safe practices at every step and approved by the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) for unrestricted use in organic crop production. All fertilizers designed for organic farming are registered and certified by OMRI, CDFA/OIM, WSDA material review organizations (MRO).

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Amerisan is dedicated to serving the food industry with precision and excellence. Our team of food safety experts work closely with you as a partner to provide a consultative approach and tailored solutions to fit your food safety program. We help you maintain the highest standards of safety and cleanliness, preventing contamination, and product integrity.

We deliver exceptional customer service, quality products and guarantee timely deliveries to keep your operations efficient and compliant. 

Our mission is to help food manufacturers eliminate foodborne illnesses and product contamination. 

Our line of products include:

Janitorial & Sanitation Supplies:Everything you need to maintain a clean and hygienic environment.

Color-Coded & Detectable Tools:Quality tools to prevent cross-contamination and ensure product safety. We offer the largest range of color-coded tools in the marketplace.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE):High-quality PPE to protect your workers and your product.

Material handling: Food-safe equipment for every stage of your food processing operation.

Value-Added Services:

Stock-X: We monitor our customers’ inventory and advise exactly what to order so they are always in stock and never overstocked. Keeping your operations running smoothly, saving time, space and money on expensive rush orders.

5S Shadow Boards: Custom solutions that provide standardization, efficiency, and improve productivity. Our Shadow Board systems help you achieve and sustain 6S lean manufacturing goals and organization while also improving safety, hygiene, and communication. Shadow boards help keep your operations audit ready.

HACCPTrax: Real-time inventory tracking and reporting for distributed assets like tools and safety gear, reducing waste and lost item costs. 

• Eliminate cumbersome paperwork

• Promote accountability and a thriving food safety culture

On-site Analysis: We assist in the implementation of visual aid programs by providing on-site analysis, training and signage to assist in teaching and reinforcing best practices, increasing the speed of employee onboarding and increasing employee retention.

Dedicated Client Care Reps: We are fanatical about customer service. We believe that every detail is important. Every client has a dedicated rep to help you select the best products and solutions to meet your specific needs. With live specialists and nationwide coverage, you can call, email, chat and we’re here to help.

Dayka & Hackett is a grower/importer/shipper of both conventional and organic fresh produce. Our produce is sourced globally to meet the demanding year-round requirements of our North American customer base. Dayka & Hackett and its members include farmers, packers, shippers, and marketers; we are truly a vertically integrated farming, shipping, and sales organization. We source product globally from such fertile growing areas as California, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Spain, Morocco, Ecuador, Guatemala, and New Zealand. Dayka & Hackett ships more than 15 million cartons of fresh fruit annually, including table grapes, citrus, avocados, mangos. kiwifruit, Asian pears, cherries, pomegranates, & stone fruit.

Misionero specializes in Organic and Conventional; Specialty Salads, Washed and Trimmed Lettuces, Value-Added Vegetables, and Premium Kits. We love satisfying, good-for-you food and are always looking for new ways to combine fresh vegetables and the best of modern, exciting taste profiles.

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In 1994, PrimusLabs began its foray into auditing by developing G.A.P. manuals, and in 1996, the company became an early force in the produce industry for field-level food safety plans. It was the first American company to offer auditing for farms and harvest crews and became an early and strong advocate for complete programs for farms and ranches. Over the next few years, PrimusLabs began offering food industry plans, and GMP audits and consultation for processing plants, cooling and cold storage facilities, packing sheds, terminal markets and distribution centers. These audits were known as PrimusLabs Standard audits.

The firm provided extensive expertise in the form of “guides” used throughout the industry and by governmental food safety agencies.  Thus, Primus Laboratories advanced the concept of preventing contamination at the earliest point in the production chain, rather than limiting the focus to downstream packing or processing operations, a concept not acknowledged by the FDA until 2011 with the passage of FSMA.

In 1998, Primus launched the web-based Document Development Program (DDP) allowing clients to create safe production manuals free of charge in exchange for the use of their data gathered through the program. While most companies copyrighted their audit schemes, Primus never did so, choosing instead to allow growers, farm managers, and other interested individuals the opportunity to run self-audits.

By the turn of the millennium, PrimusLabs developed programs allowing the submission of data generated from sub-contracted auditors, in addition to its in-house personnel. That number has grown to nearly 100 in-house and subcontracted auditors.

In 2006, auditing services were expanded to Mexico, and later to Costa Rica and Chile. In 2008, Javier Sollozo was promoted to the position of Director of Auditing Operations. In 2011, its PrimusGFS audit was benchmarked by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). In 2013, PrimusLabs’ Audit QA became the largest in the industry.

In March 2015, prompted by a new requirement of GFSI’s Benchmarking Committee in response to the request to re-benchmark the PrimusGFS version 2.1., PrimusLabs sold its Auditing Division to Javier Sollozo, who launched JS Audit Group, Inc. doing business as Primus Auditing Ops.

The new company maintains all of PrimusLabs’ personnel, as well as over 20 years of auditing expertise in farm – level produce audits, but it has also expanded its focus to include auditing of semi-processed, and fully processed produce foods, e.g. juices, salsas etc.

While it evolves, Primus Auditing Ops maintains its promise to serve its clients with objective, thorough, and accurate audits. Our mission is simple – Observe. Report.

At Sábor Farms, one thing we know for sure is that good food brings people together. In fact, Jess Quinlan was grabbing a burrito at El Charito in Salinas when he met Tony Alameda standing in line. They struck up a conversation and two years later, the Alamedas and Jess founded Sábor Farms in 2006. Since that time the company has grown from a handful of employees to several hundred, finding its place in the market with niche crops that most people wouldn’t think to farm. We are constantly finding new ways to improve our operations, as specialty crops are often difficult for conventional farmers to grow. Both the Alameda and Quinlan family are deeply rooted in the Salinas Valley and Yuma, making the community an important value to Sábor Farms. We foster a culture where we treat our coworkers like family, our partners with integrity, and most of all, we aim to bring our customers together with unique and healthy vegetables.

Church Brothers Farms is a vertically-integrated family-owned and operated company that produces a full line of fresh vegetables year-round with an in-house farming/harvest program and state-of-the-art processing plant, True Leaf Farms. They are a grower-owned processor, farming the majority of their raw product themselves; adhering to industry-leading food safety and quality standards. The Church family has a legacy of service and innovation and delivers produce with passion. 

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Neogen is committed to fueling a brighter future for global food security through the advancement of human and animal well-being. Harnessing the power of science and technology, Neogen Corporation has developed comprehensive solutions spanning the Food Safety, Livestock and Pet Health & Wellness markets. A world leader in these fields, Neogen has a presence in over 140 countries with a dedicated network of scientists and technical experts focused on delivering optimized products and technology for its customers. Learn more at https://www.neogen.com

Growing the Future of Agriculture

At Visionary Vegetables, innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We’re not just growing greens—we’re rethinking how agriculture works. By combining cutting-edge technology with time-tested farming practices, we are shaping the future of fresh produce. From Salinas to Santa Maria to Yuma, our year-round operations allow us to push the boundaries of what’s possible in modern farming. 

We actively partner with ag tech pioneers to test and implement the latest advancements in automation, data analytics, and sustainable and regenerative growing techniques. Whether it’s using precision farming to optimize water and nutrient use, experimenting with climate-resistant seed varieties, or integrating AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency, we are always looking for ways to farm smarter.

Sustainability drives our innovation. We believe in being good stewards of the land, reducing environmental impact while increasing yield and quality. By embracing new technologies, we aim to create a more resilient food system—one that is not only productive but also responsible.

At Visionary Vegetables, we don’t settle for the way things have always been done. We challenge the status quo, leading agriculture into a smarter, more sustainable future—one harvest at a time.

At Eurofins, we understand that produce food safety starts well before planting the seed or serving the salad to a consumer. While microbial safety and spoilage is a considerations in all segments of the food industry, the produce segment presents unique challenges due to the perishability of products, complex supply chains, and a limited set of mitigations to control food safety threats. Eurofins laboratories understand the dynamic nature of your fresh products, and we are here to support the industry at all points - “farm-to-fork.” Whether your need is testing, a risk assessment, or a shelf-life study, we are here to guide and support you with industry-leading technologies, state-of-the-art laboratories, and easy access to experts when challenging situations occur.

For produce, time is of foremost importance with a limited product shelf life. We are conveniently located in growing regions to provide rapid testing services. Our locally-based client service teams strive for responsive service so that we can provide prompt answers and on-time results. Our national network of ISO 17025 accredited laboratories is here to support your business with a full portfolio of microbiological and chemistry testing services for pre-harvest, agricultural water testing, product testing, and facility environmental monitoring. In addition, we offer dedicated on-site modular laboratories for your individual needs.

Companies need a partner that can match and even exceed, their high-quality standards to protect and grow their brands. Our network of laboratories brings broad expertise and unparalleled experience to meet that need while providing full transparency to the process along the way. We act as an extension of your team to help ensure that you receive accurate results and tailored support for your programs.

Partner with us to create great products that customers value for their quality and safety. Contact us today.

Founded in 1926, Western Growers represents local and regional family farmers growing fresh produce in Arizona, California, Colorado and New Mexico. Our members and their workers provide over half the nation's fresh fruits, vegetables and tree nuts, including nearly half of America's fresh organic produce. Some members also farm throughout the U.S. and in other countries so people have year-round access to nutritious food. For generations, we have provided variety and healthy choices to consumers.

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Founded in 1982, Tanimura & Antle is an employee-owned family farming business with a four-generation legacy and a passionate commitment to growing premium quality produce. Built on a partnership between two families, with a shared commitment to always value employees as its greatest asset, the founding families now share ownership with all employees — from farming and harvest crews to management — through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). As one of the largest independent vegetable growers in the United States, Tanimura & Antle farms more than 36,000 acres of rich, fertile farmland and ships a full line of premium fresh conventional and organic produce products throughout North America. 

The Grower-Shipper Association of Central California (GSA) is a regional trade association that aims to advance families, food, and farming in our region. Founded in 1930, today the organization represents 300 members, primarily farmers, shippers, and processors of fruits and vegetables produced in Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Santa Clara Counties.  As part of our mission, GSA is dedicated to providing solutions-based programs and services covering diverse areas, such as protecting farm workers from the spread of COVID-19 through innovative housing, testing, education programs, and mass vaccination clinics; efforts to address the challenges of water supply and improving water quality, food safety, and security; and pest and disease management and prevention.