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Chipotle brings meme to life with cilantro soap
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Chipotle Mexican Grill today brought a popular meme to life by launching...
Dollar General to add produce to 1,000 stores in 2022
Goodlettsville, TN-based Dollar General BB #:172794 is on a roll with perishables. Following the completion of its DG Fresh...
Farming is anything but transitory
The word, transitory, has been thrown around a lot lately in the media, most notably by the Chair of the...
Amazon: Addressing solid obstacles
Amazon’s BB #:283186 initial foray for its own branded grocery, Amazon Fresh, was an online-only venture. “Amazon recognized that to...
Labor: The most precious form of capital
“Milton Friedman was wrong.” The late economist and Nobel Laureate was renowned for (among other things) insisting that the only...
U.S. Apple exports to India down 79 Percent; USApple urges removal of steel and aluminum tariffs
Falls Church, Va. (Nov. 30, 2021)—Following the start to agricultural trade negotiations last week at the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum...
ProduceIQ: Leverage shifts to buyers post-Thanksgiving
The supply and demand scale may have just tipped against growers and shippers. After an expensive fall season, fresh produce...
Probiotics promote yield in berries
Blackcurrants are not exactly a staple item in the U.S., but one development in the crop, grown in the colder...
Former Philly Market CEO sentenced to 10 years, $8MM restitution for fraud
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Caesar DiCrecchio, 60, of Voorhees, NJ, was sentenced to ten...
Spiral Dynamics at the Thanksgiving table
Your Thanksgiving table may present some of these figures. There’s Grandma. A timid, quiet soul, she prays the rosary three...
Exhausted produce buyers ready for a Thanksgiving siesta
Like so many of us who enjoy a good nap after our Thanksgiving meal, produce markets tend to nod off...
U.S. Potato industry supports action to protect Canadian provinces and U.S. after additional disease detections
New restrictions on Prince Edward Island potatoes enacted for Canadian provinces and the U.S. effective midnight Nov. 22 WASHINGTON – The...
Avocados: The phantom menace
“Give peas a chance,” urges the British newspaper The Guardian. They mean instead of avocados. An article dated November 1...
Stemilt reveals promising apple sales numbers
WENATCHEE, Wash. – Apple season has come into full swing for produce departments across the U.S. and made up 6.2...
The gambler’s crop is on a roll
Lettuce is sometimes called a gambler’s crop. If so, it’s been on a roll. Currently, iceberg prices are at around...
UPDATED: E. coli outbreak linked to organic baby spinach
This is an update to a previous story based on new information from CDC and FDA as of 3 p.m....
Avocado chips go viral
The avocado is on a roll. (I will avoid whatever pun that might lead to.) Sitting at a dim sum...
Fear of pesticides won’t go away
In the slew of emails I get per day, there is usually an item or two about bacterial contamination of...
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