As promised, I said would look at the newly updated per capita availability numbers with an eye toward the under-performing fresh commodities compared with their peers.
Working on some recent produce safety stories, the topic of the Food and Drug Administration’s pending regulation on traceability was brought up by a couple of folks.
In one of my periodic open-ended questions, I asked the LinkedIn Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group about their thoughts about the future of greenhouse vegetables the other day.
A little cheesy in retrospect, the 1977 hit “Point of Know Return” by Kansas nonetheless still stirs something urgent in the soul, some higher purpose to ponder.
More than six years after cantaloupes from Colorado’s Rocky Ford region were implicated in a deadly listeria outbreak in the U.S., Australia is dealing with its own nightmare related to listeria and melons.
I was talking the other day with Bryan Little, director of labor affairs for California Farm Bureau Federation about the issue of farm labor relating to California vegetables.
Billy Graham was 99 when he died and by that measure I have spent nearly one-third of that span at The Packer, doing a sort of evangelism and truth-spreading for the fresh produce business.
I was visiting the other day with produce consultant Bruce Peterson about the blueberry category, related to pending coverage of the Southeast berry section for The Packer.
As part of a broad Trump administration review of regulations on the books, the Food and Drug Administration has taken public comments on existing regulations.
Saw this on Conan the other night, and add it to the billions of impressions netted from the Avocados from Mexico commercial during the Super Bowl. Classic!
If you ever feel down about the state of humanity in the world today, if you need a feel-good jolt of emotion to get you through the day, there is one thing you should absolutely NOT do.
Just coming off binging on Super Bowl food that was part healthy and part not, it is time for me to get in the gym and start eating better. It’s a thought, anyway.
As I am writing a few stories about strawberries for an upcoming section for The Packer, I asked the Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group about what changes or trends they see in the strawberry industry.
With comments due by Jan. 29, there’s a spirited debate going on the wisdom of an exemption from hours of service regulations for haulers of agricultural commodities.
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