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Fruit and vegetables grown industrially (or: why it makes sense to grow your own)
Fruit: Driscoll's
A film about fruit-harvesting workers: The Last Harvest. See the synopsis
"...non farm-based distributor of exclusively certified-organic fresh fruits and vegetables in Ontario. The company delivers more than 200 kinds of fruits and vegetables from organic farms from around the world to 150 retailers in the province, such as major chains as well as many independent health and natural food stores."
Industry Trade Show: CMPA Convention, 2022
Collard greens: Little Bear Produce
Broccoli rabe: Darrigo Bros. Salinas CA, Andy Boy
Note also: there's lots of trouble with e-coli in Romaine lettuce in Salinas
Spinach: PamPak -- Baloian Farms Fresno CA. Here is their video
Organic Vegetables Lakeside Organic Gardens (2000 acres and another 1000 acres). Video
Organic tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries: Savoura in Quebec.
Seven very large greenhouse locations. About 35% organic, the rest conventional but with limited pesticide use. They had an even more ambitious expansion plan but Stephane Roy, the owner, and his son died in a helicopter crash in 2019: Story.
Bananas: Dole
One of their videos about their organic bananas (Ecuador)
Their international business, income, stockmarket performance etc., link.
Blueberries are a major export of Chile.
Companies use an Italian technology called Unitec -- photos here show the scale of operations.
Hydroponic lettuce
Serres Lefort Inc Living lettuce plants in Quebec: link,The company was bought by Hydroserre Mirabel in 2020, after some anxiety of it being bought by a foreign (non-Quebec) company: link
Kale
The twist-tie says Cal-organic, which says it's the biggest of something, and then on a google search it says that they are a division of Grimmway Enterprises in Bakersfield CA, "the world’s largest producer of carrots." Their management link.
They voluntarily recalled some of their carrots in 2021 because their own tests found salmonella: link.
Boskovitch. Main plant: Oxnard CA. They have 18,000 acres in CA, AZ, NV, and Mexico. Their website. Their organic information Industry news.
Vertically integrated of course. Packaging is a big issue.
Sugar
Native sugar (Brazil)
Seeing the benefits of green harvesting, Natíve began transitioning their entire production of 20,000 hectares (more than 49,000 acres) to organic in the mid-1990s and became certified in 1996. One of the world’s largest organic farming projects, Natíve now produces one-fifth of the world’s organic sugar and exports it to 64 countries. read more
On the other hand....
...there are some local operations that seem to be a little smaller:
Tomatoes: Elmira's Own
Apples
Northern Orchards -- distributer in Newmarket
Also: Meat and fish
Also: Dairy