Wal-Mart Signs on to Fair Food Premium for Florida Tomatoes

Randall Weiseman January 20, 2014 Florida, Fruits, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

Wal-Mart Stores have agreed to pay Florida tomato pickers a penny more for each pound harvested.

Estimate Puts Florida Freeze Damage at More Than $3 Billion
As growers surveyed fields and groves after the freeze in late January and early February, it was clear the damage has been catastrophic in many cases. That was confirmed by Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson with the first estimate of damage released on Feb 20. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ (FDACS) preliminary […]
All In For Citrus Podcast, February 2026
Florida experienced one of the most damaging freezes in more than a decade this winter. The February episode of the All In For Citrus podcast addresses the impacts the freeze had on citrus. Michael Rogers, director of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Citrus Research and Education Center, notes that […]