Thursday, November 6, 2025

TOPICS

Home Tags Food And Agriculture

Tag: Food And Agriculture

the propS Arthur Lopez poses with his wife, Heidi; daughters Kylie, 12, and Sophie, 10; and son, Caden, 2; and samples of Autocrat Coffee Syrup and tea products made at Finlay Extracts & Ingredients USA Inc.

Arthur Lopez

PBN 40 Under Forty Awards 2025 ARTHUR LOPEZ | 35 Vice president of marketing, Finlay Extracts & Ingredients USA Inc. What is the biggest challenge currently facing...
MELISSA S. CHERNEY, who has led the Great Plains Food Bank in North Dakota for the last six years, has been named the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's next CEO. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

R.I. Food Bank names Cherney as new CEO

PROVIDENCE – The leader of North Dakota's largest hunger relief organization will head to the Ocean State to take the top role at the...
THE RHODE ISLAND Food Policy Council has received an $18.7 million federal grant to help finance a project that will address food waste reduction, climate resilience and capacity building within the local community. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOOD POLICY COUNCIL

R.I. Food Policy Council receives $18.7M federal grant to address food...

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Food Policy Council has received a major eight-figure federal grant to help finance a project that the council says...
THE RHODE ISLAND Community Food Bank's 2024 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island shows that about 2 in 5 households are considered food insecure. / PBN FILE PHOTO / JAMES BESSETTE

New R.I. food bank status report shows food insecurity still problematic

PROVIDENCE – Food insecurity within the state continues to be problematic, with communities of color facing the brunt of the impacts, according to the...
WHERE IT STARTS: Cathryn Kennedy, food operations manager at Wright’s Dairy Farm Inc., walks through a cow barn at the North Smithfield farm. As many as 200 cows produce the milk that farm employees process, pasteurize and either churn into ice cream or bottle. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

The ‘Wright’ place for milk, ice cream

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Wright’s Dairy Farm Inc. CATHRYN KENNEDY MAKES her way past one of the barns at Wright’s Dairy Farm...
ASSEMBLY LINE: José Nunez Pichardo ensures jars of salsa are capped at the Plants to Food LLC manufacturing facility in Lincoln.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Producing food the natural way

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Plants to Food LLC TO MANY, a transition from beef to plant-based food may seem like a leap...
JOHANNA CORCORAN, executive director of We Share Hope, announces Wednesday the organization's rebranding to Feed RI. / COURTESY FEED RI

Local food rescue nonprofit We Share Hope rebrands to Feed RI

EAST PROVIDENCE – A local food rescue nonprofit has rebranded to a new name that its leadership feels better reflects the organization's vision for...
SPECIAL DELIVERY: Feast & Fettle Inc. CEO Carlos Ventura and founder Maggie Mulvena Pearson started their East Providence-based company with the goal to help deliver as many meals to families across Rhode Island as possible. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Feast & Fettle is finding solutions through food

PBN 2024 Fastest Growing Companies Awards $15 MILLION to $50 MILLION: 1. Feast & Fettle Inc. CEO (or equivalent): Carlos Ventura 2023 Revenue: $25.1 million 2021 Revenue: $9.3 million Revenue...
RHODE ISLAND Beef and Veal and one of its owners, Michael A. Quattrucci, have been fined and placed on federal probation for violating the Federal Meat Inspection Act.

Johnston beef slaughterhouse fined $20K for violating Federal Meat Inspection Act

PROVIDENCE – Almost a year after admitting in federal court that it defrauded customers and violated the Federal Meat Inspection Act five years ago,...
THE RHODE ISLAND Community Food Bank's 2023 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island notes that a record number of Rhode Islanders in 2023 needed assistance due to inflation and federal COVID-19 food support programs ended. / PBN FILE PHOTO / JAMES BESSETTE

New R.I. food bank status report shows food insecurity has worsened

PROVIDENCE – With the COVID-19 pandemic fading in the rearview mirror, there was a belief that food insecurity would decrease with people returning to...
- Featured Event -

Latest News