Opinion
Churches, corporations, restaurants, schools, and practically every American institution have been challenged by the coronavirus.
Potato acreage will be lower this year but by how much?
With new crop harvest beginning and storage supplies dwindling, it is always a market-moving time for the apple crop in August.
Last week I touched on reasons why produce managers get transferred from one store to another. It happens as managers move about, taking on other responsibilities, opening a new store or transferring for other reasons.
We know this global health crisis has become political, and we don’t all agree how to handle it or what precautions are wise. Even so, New York City takes this pandemic seriously.
A couple of weeks ago, somebody in a Facebook group I’m part of shared an article on the proper (and Southern) way to eat watermelon — with salt.
The Packer’s 125th-anniversary issue is soon coming, and in a series of blog posts, I have described the results of a survey we posted in conjunction with our editorial efforts for the publication.
The collective wisdom of the industry typically gets it right.
Produce shippers and receivers, cover your ears.
In anticipation of The Packer’s 125th-anniversary issue, we have enjoyed publishing past anniversary articles from the Century of Produce and also posted industry columns for the 125th-anniversary edition.
In a previous post, I showed charts of fresh fruit and vegetable exports to specific markets.
There continues to be a lot of conversation about driver detention times, and the U.S. Department of Transportation was still taking input on the issue until Sept. 9.
If you compare a thousand households to mine, I would wager my wife and I don’t waste food at nearly the “average” rate. We are a one-percenter in that way.
If you compare a thousand households to mine, I would wager my wife and I don’t waste food at nearly the “average” rate. We are a one-percenter in that way.
How much time do you spend slaving over a hot stove compared with inching through the fast-food drive-through lane for an extra value meal?
There is an old saying, “You can’t win for losing.”
The superhero cape continues to look good on fresh produce.
Relax. Newly updated figures show 2019 per capita statistics for fresh vegetables, and it is good news.
Retail ads for fresh produce are way down because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In what ways will the fresh produce industry be changed permanently by COVID-19?
What’s the point of creating a breath-taking produce department when the produce is picked up by an Instacart shopper?
The common phrase lately has to be “I’m looking forward to getting back to normal.”
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, I sometimes struggle to find some ray of hope, some lesson that we may have overlooked that we might carry with us when it’s all over.
My quarantined focus, like that of so many folks now, is the grocers in my immediate area.
“You’re a produce person? I would buy more fresh produce if I only knew what was in season — you know, what’s really good right now.”