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Where do food fears come from?
It’s a small blessing that the unprecedented panic about the coronavirus have pushed fears about food into the background. This...
VIDEO: PMA’s Richard Owen on the stimulus package, resources during COVID-19
Greg Johnson spoke with the Richard Owen, vice president of global trade for the Produce Marketing Association BB #:153708 about...
Credit perspective during the pandemic
To the produce industry: We are well aware of the stress being placed on the produce supply chain and each...
Foodservice suppliers adjust to disaster
Tim York has worked his way through a spinach outbreak crisis and recent romaine lettuce recalls, but he’s never before...
Air quality standards: A boon to produce?
Anyone familiar with California agriculture knows that the industry regards the state’s stringent regulations as a curse visited upon it...
The Produce Reporter Week in Review – March 20, 2020
Greg was out on vacation last week, and came home to something a little…different. The world of grocery and foodservice...
The tools you can trust in a crisis
I will be short and sweet: Blue Book is open for (your) business. We are here to help you and...
Leafy Greens: the fourth-wash dilemma
I stayed my wife’s hand the other evening. Making a nutritionally respectable meal of broiled salmon over baby spinach greens,...
Grocery “magic” needs a few days to catch up — a look inside retail distribution
In recent days we’ve all seen and read the toilet paper memes, negative and positive posts, the panic buying of...
The Produce Reporter Week in Review – March 13, 2020
Greg and Pamela discuss industry events affected by coronavirus, and the one thing that’s not: how to wash your produce....
With COVID-19, we’re in uncharted waters
I wonder when the coronavirus, or COVID-19, will cease being a threat to the health of the world. My fervent...
Case Study: Dissecting the closure of Trinity Fresh
As an industry, we see hundreds of business closures each year. Many are planned with a carefully thought out exit...
The Produce Reporter Week in Review – March 6, 2020
Pamela and Greg discuss the produce and retail industry’s response to coronavirus and why Pamela’s glad she’s been stockpiling trade...
Fighting to end Daylight Saving Time
This weekend Americans move their clocks ahead so that sunset will be an hour later. This is called Daylight Saving...
Consumer Reports probes leafy green industry
In the aftermath of the 2019 salmonella outbreak in romaine lettuce, the easiest option is to forget about it. But...
An app to fight food waste
Times being as they are, an app is being called into play in the war on food waste. It’s called...
Produce’s role USDA’s sustainability push
Sustainability is here to stay—at least if USDA has anything to say about it. On February 20, secretary of agriculture...
Aldi and I still don’t mix
I made sure to bring a quarter. My objective in this expedition was to see if I like Aldi BB...
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