Top helpful websites (this week’s version)
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 There are duplicate bookmarks, broken links, and outdated placeholders to sites visited once but never again.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?
990 Finder: Tax returns for non profits
Purdue Food and Agriculture Vulnerability Index
Wait, wait, there are dozens more.... well, maybe someday.
