This summer, California farmers will take chainsaws to 420,000 peach trees, not because the fruit is diseased or the land is needed, but because there is no one left to buy the peaches. The collapse ...

Del Monte Foods, the 139-year-old company best known for its canned fruits and vegetables, is filing for bankruptcy protection as U.S. consumers increasingly bypass its products for healthier or ...

With the fall of Del Monte Foods’ Modesto cannery earlier this year, also comes the fall of the clingstone peach crop tonnage this harvest. The amount of canning peaches processed this year is ...