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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...

3 years ago 4 minute read

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...

3 years ago 2 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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...

3 years ago 5 minute read

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...

3 years ago 4 minute read

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...

3 years ago 2 minute read

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...

3 years ago 4 minute read

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...

3 years ago 2 minute read

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...

3 years ago 5 minute read

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...

3 years ago 5 minute read

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...

3 years ago 4 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

Avocados: The phantom menace

“Give peas a chance,” urges the British newspaper The Guardian. They mean instead of avocados. An article dated November 1...

3 years ago 4 minute read

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...

3 years ago 5 minute read

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...

3 years ago 2 minute read

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....

3 years ago 2 minute read

Avocado chips go viral

The avocado is on a roll. (I will avoid whatever pun that might lead to.) Sitting at a dim sum...

3 years ago 2 minute read

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...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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