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ProduceIQ: Industry prices soften, still 18% higher than next highest
Let’s just say it would be quicker to write the list of produce commodities not nearing their record high...
NJ distributor awarded $111MM government supply contract
U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency: Frank Gargiulo & Son, Hillside, NJ, BB #:132478 has been awarded a maximum...
IFPA proposes National Director of Food and Nutrition
The International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) BB #:378962 is shooting for the moon, or shooting the moon (whichever idiom you...
Prescription produce proposed as part of health plans
Imagine leaving your doctor’s office with a little slip of paper saying, “Two pints of blueberries a day” written in...
Branding brings differentiation to retail, but it depends on expectations
MONTEREY, CA — Private labels account for about 18% of the overall market and are posting double digit growth, and...
Colonel Colon to the rescue
I sometimes joke that my favorite superhero is Bleachman. Bleachman was an improbable character featured on ads in San Francisco...
ProduceIQ: Weather keeps heat on prices
Heat is affecting more than just your European vacation. Last week’s California heatwave fanned the flames of commodity prices already...
Crop One opens world’s largest vertical farm
July 18, 2022 MILLIS, Mass. & DUBAI, United Arab Emirates–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Crop One Holdings, an industry leader in technology-driven indoor vertical...
New federal food agency proposed in Congress
Hey! Maybe I’ll get my wish after all! In a column last month, I suggested detaching food safety regulation from...
Attendee engagement high at Organic Produce Summit
MONTEREY, CA—The Roarin’ 20s continue in the trade show world with record attendance for the Organic Produce Summit July 13-14....
The Produce Reporter Week in Review – July 15, 2022
Pamela and Greg discuss how organic produce is doing in a struggling economy, as she checks in from a busy...
The future crop symbiosis between the U.S. and Mexico
It’s starting to look like a glitch in the Matrix. Yet again, agricultural leaders are calling upon Congress to adopt...
Biden and AMLO: Nothing on immigration for now
To judge from the news accounts, the July 12 meeting between President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador...
June produce sales saw slowdown in fruit inflation
The June Marketplace Inflation has dominated the trade and consumer headlines since early fall of last year and June 2022...
Agriculture minus three basic things
American agriculture is going to have to do without three things that it has long taken for granted, according to...
Dollar General announces CEO retirement, transition plan
Todd Vasos to Transition from CEO to Special Advisory Role Effective November 1, 2022; Jeffery Owen Named as Successor GOODLETTSVILLE,...
California’s future without agriculture
Well, this is embarrassing. Or it ought to be. For somebody. Namely, for the Institute for the Future and the...
ProduceIQ: Prices decline yet remain at historic highs
Overall market prices begin descent due to the end of summer holiday season. Independence Day is a key date for...
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