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Hand-harvesting requires teams of skilled workers willing to work hours of back-breaking labor, often in high temperatures. Yet the scarcity...

With Mexico as the largest supplier of fresh fruit and vegetables to the United States, valued at more than $6.5...

Blue Book Services recently launched the “New Hire Academy,” an online training program designed to help new hires learn the...

The Republic of Italy is a boot-shaped peninsula located in southern Europe, nestled into the Mediterranean Sea. The country is...

Do you ship or distribute certified organic produce? Or, is some of the produce sold in your local market U.S. Department...

Often associated with Europe, the humble potato is a product of the New World. And though its origins are in...

Terminating the service of an employee is never a pleasant task, but many employers fail to fully understand the process...

If you’re over 40, you probably remember the days of eating pretty much the same groups of fruits and vegetables...

The credit department and its personnel can be essential to helping a company increase sales, meet corporate goals, and enhance...

Imagination—touted as one of the universe’s most powerful forces by the likes of Einstein, Mozart, and Bonaparte—is the formation of...

The word “strategy” has many definitions; one element they all have in common, however, is that strategy involves choices. Produce...

It has been six years since PTI was launched in the aftermath of the E. coli outbreak that decimated the...

Blue Book Services recently launched the “New Hire Academy,” an online training program designed to help new hires learn the...

Recent research by the global consulting firm Accenture indicates that business complexity is growing rapidly due to unpredictable government policies,...

Founded in 1942, the Texas Produce Association was little more than a loose group of growers and shippers seeking mutual...

From Dock Street to Essington Avenue The Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market traces its roots to colonial times, when growers, shippers,...

The numbers are impressive: Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority in the United States, with 53 million men, women, and...

First inhabited sometime between 9,000 and 12,000 years ago by ancestors of the Massachusett Indian tribe, the Boston area has...