Opinion
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.”
Has the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program made a difference in fresh produce market conditions?
There can never be enough sweet corn or cherries for Fourth of July retail promotions, and that is especially true this year.
Another bit of good news has been published about the medical benefits that come from eating more fruits and vegetables.
There are voices of concern about the third round of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program.
Jack Bobo, CEO of food consulting firm Futurity, Potomac, Md., took a moment to talk frankly about COVID-19 during a speech Aug. 20 at the U.S. Apple Association’s virtual Outlook 2020 event.
This is the moment in time when nearly everyone “cares” about marketing produce/groceries online. Will it last?
As president of the Grower Shipper Association of Central California, I talk to farmers, farming companies and farm workers about the challenges faced when protecting essential employees from COVID-19.
Are we already in the “new normal”?
Just how vulnerable is our food supply?
I was talking with an East Coast distributor the other day who mentioned that fruit buying patterns have been unusually hard to anticipate.
Just how influential is the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list?
We are all looking ahead, sometimes finding it more fruitful to think about the road ahead than the path we are on.