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Of late much of the media conversation about water use has focused on California, but Texas, with its own multiyear...

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has recently updated its fact sheet on the agricultural economy of South Africa, the largest...

On May 11, 35 members of Congress sent a letter to agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to press Japan...

In their video Week in Review for May 12, my colleagues Greg Johnson and Pamela Riemenschneider discuss an op-ed piece...

Disease is bound to affect any industry that involves plants. One of the most dramatic instances in the twentieth century...

The House Agriculture Committee is inviting public comments on the 2023 farm bill, which is due to replace the current...

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has announced that he will introduce legislation to bar the federal Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program...

I contacted Ian LeMay, currently president of the California Fresh Fruit Association (CFFA), to congratulate him on his new appointment...

Big news this week. Green beans are extremely tight on both coasts, and prices are being pushed to a ten-year...

By Richard Smoley I’m no genius at figures, but . . . Something seems to be wrong with a recent...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia at Okanagan (UBCO) are working on technology to cut back on food waste...

With obesity currently at a rate of 36 percent in the American population, public health authorities are increasingly targeting junk...

Every week we see a new story about venture capital investing in companies raising insects for human consumption. A recent...

I don’t read too many articles in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, but I read this one. It is...

Lots of insane weather in Florida and throughout the Southeast this past week. Heavy rain, golf ball-sized hail, severe wind,...

Writing in Retail Wire, George Anderson discusses the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger. If it is approved by the Federal Trade Commission...

Pamela visits with Greg from the expo floor of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association BB #:153602 annual convention, which was...

In case you need to refresh your memory (as I did), PLU, as in PLU labels, stands for price look...