The move also means that about 75,000 tons of peaches will likely go to waste.

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned. Soon the blooms would need spraying, and he would feed all 105 acres with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A relatively strong job market awaits the 1,800 or so people displaced from the Del Monte Foods fruit cannery in Modesto. But the ...

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned. e.

Peach trees stood lined in rows and stretched across the 20-acre plot of farmland north of Marysville, their wayward branches either lying on the ground or still reaching outward and upward, the ideal ...

Workers sort apricots at the Del Monte Foods cannery in Modesto, California, in 2009. John Holland Del Monte Foods will close its Modesto fruit cannery, a loss of about 600 year-round jobs and 1,200 ...

Del Monte Foods has selected three winning bidders in its court-supervised auction, the company announced. In a news release issued Thursday, Jan. 15, Del Monte Foods said the proposed transactions ...