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Credit Analysis Without All the Facts
Financial statements are a key part of any credit evaluation, but sometimes this component is absent from the equation. Since...
Any Way You Slice It, Apples Rule!
The sheer number of apple varieties grown worldwide—7,500—continues to climb as innovative cultivars are developed with resistance to pests and...
FormuL.A. for Success
For decades, the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market has been an essential but gritty destination for buyers and sellers of...
Not Stone Dead, Evolving
The food retailing industry is in the midst of a cataclysmic shift fueled by changing shopper demands, competitive challenges, and...
Fast Lane to the Future
With more and more high-tech innovations being introduced to the shipping and transportation arena every year, it’s important to know...
The Ontario Produce Trade: Resilient & Robust
Ontario is a vibrant community of growers, carriers, wholesalers, and retailers who serve the local population and export to the...
Filling A Tall Order
Despite Detroit’s past financial worries, its two terminal markets—the Detroit Produce Terminal and the Eastern Market—have remained relatively immune to...
Top 10 Challenges In & Out of the Truck
The road ahead for the rest of 2016 looks bumpy for produce transportation. There are regulatory curves coming up, along...
Growing in Leaps and Bounds
From its founding in 1836 to today, things have changed immensely in Houston. These days, it is the fourth-largest city...
Interstate Commerce, Acceptance, Rejection
The following summary of a precedent-setting reparation decision issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) is intended to help...
Channeling Goldilocks
Remember that classic fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears? In the story, Goldilocks wanders into the Bear family’s house...
Free-on-board Sales and Acceptance
The Key Point: The buyer has no right to reject when purchasing on an “f.o.b. acceptance” basis. The Solution: Understand the sales...
The Swiftly Growing Organic Market
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) established national organic production and handling standards in 2002 in response to increasing consumer...
South Jersey
Tour the fertile South Jersey region, catching up on the hottest growing, buying, and selling trends as the state’s Department...
Four Myths of Supply and Demand
One of the central elements that has governed historical transactional activities in the produce industry is the law of “supply...
Baltimore’s Jessup Market
Maryland’s ethnically diverse population supports its breadth of produce sales: from growers to wholesalers, chains to independents, home delivery to...
Powering the Greenhouse Revolution
Demand continues to climb for fresh produce grown in greenhouses and other controlled environments. As a result, the industry is...
Soaking Up The Sunshine
The jury is in: California’s fertile valleys and climate are the perfect place to grow and harvest table grapes. After...
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