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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...

3 years ago 5 minute read

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...

3 years ago 1 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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...

3 years ago 2 minute read

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...

3 years ago 6 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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...

3 years ago 4 minute read

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....

3 years ago 3 minute read

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...

3 years ago 1 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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...

3 years ago 2 minute read

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...

3 years ago 15 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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,...

3 years ago 9 minute read

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...

3 years ago 2 minute read

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...

3 years ago 4 minute read

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