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Despite valiant surges by bell pepper and cauliflower, the produce industry needs an increase in demand to drive up struggling...

Have you ever stopped to think about your business name? I don’t mean how catchy it sounds or how cool...

The pet industry is booming in the United States, and pets, especially dogs, represent a unique rising consumer class for...

There appears to be a mechanism in the human brain that sorts everything into Good News versus Bad News. What...

Overall markets descend after holiday pull turns into a lull. While higher-priced fruits and berries finally fall, demand remains anemic...

You should be concerned if you looked at the data in the State of the Plate: America’s Fruit and Vegetable...

Economic forecasting is a treacherous art, and one that would seem to be doomed to failure. It can only predict...

Overall produce markets gained 2 percent as a major winter storm plunged much of the U.S. into a deep freeze....

Many produce companies have embraced—or at least acknowledged the importance of—using analytics and data to make business decisions. In 2021,...

In the fall we turned our clocks back an hour, then focused on year-end activities including a rigorous financial and...

The blueberry war is over—or at least a phase of it. On February 11, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)...

What’s a coronavirus vaccine worth? If you believe the Kroger BB #:100073 supermarket chain, it’s $100. That’s what it’s paying...

Prices for the overall ProduceIQ Index were deceptively buoyed by grapes and berries. While most categories suffered, grapes and berries...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is famous for crediting his diet among the reasons he’s still able to play...

Blue Book is 120 years old. We are working harder than ever for our members’ success. It has always been...

I came across the perfect package 35 years ago. It was during my one and only trip to India, and...

U.S. blueberry growers have made a loud case that imports threaten their existence. Last month, a handful of domestic blueberry...

These days, we are seeing as never before. We look out for an invisible virus – masking up, scrubbing away...