Top helpful websites (this week’s version)

It seems that every single day I am adding a new bookmark to my Chrome web browser.

Tom Karst
Tom Karst
(The Packer)

It seems that every single day I am adding a new bookmark (or three) to my Chrome web browser.

The whole list of bookmarked websites now reads like a Leo Tolstoy novel, too long to lend any easy help to an emergent problem. There are duplicate bookmarks, broken links, and outdated placeholders to sites visited once but never again.

Still, I once found value in each and every one of them. In no particular order, here are some that found favor in recent months.

USDA open purchase requests, fruit: USDA fruit purchases

USA Spending by Transaction, fruit: Government payments to fresh produce operators

Government index (fruit)

Includes court cases, (see Produce Pay case here), regulations and more.

Regulations.gov (fruit): Regulations and public comments that contain the keyword fruit

IRI CPG Demand Index - how is produce and other categories performing compared with a year ago?

PACA search

990 Finder: Tax returns for non profits

Purdue Food and Agriculture Vulnerability Index

CDC Outbreaks Page

Wait, wait, there are dozens more.... well, maybe someday.

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