Fresh Talk
With frost damage in Idaho and flooding hampering potato harvest in North Dakota and the Red River Valley, the potato market could take buyers on a wild ride.
President Trump is great for the pollsters, sparking intense passions from his supporters and his opponents.
Who is the 21st-century eater and what does he/she want?
There is no doubt the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, now called COVID-19, is having an impact on business activity around the globe.
Garlic and garlic water won’t cure or prevent COVID-19, but some people haven’t gotten the word yet.
One of the big supply chain questions related to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak is the effect of the crisis on demand for particular commodities.
Trying to find potatoes at the supermarket isn’t as tough as finding toilet paper, but spuds have been moving fast and furious during the early days of the lockdown with the COVID-19 outbreak.
What kind of innovation is needed to feed x(number) billion people in Y(date)?
In the continuing market disruption related to the COVID-19, supermarkets are not running their typical amount of weekly promotions for fruits and vegetables.
Tonya Antle’s retail panel at the Organic Produce Summit had a lot of great content in less than 30 minutes. Not all of it fit into the coverage I had from the show.
The Packer’s 125th-anniversary edition is coming out later this year, and it has been fun collecting material for that publication and publishing articles from past anniversary editions.
There is not enough fruit and vegetable production to feed the world at recommended serving levels, and that scenario will get worse instead of better in the next 30 years.
Billed as the Erin Brockovich of food, Robyn O’Brien delivered a keynote address at the 2019 Organic Produce Summit that recalled Brockovich’s reforming passion.
I have discussed the results of an online survey we put out in conjunction with The Packer’s 125th-anniversary publication several times in this space.
How can we identify the power of an individual within any sphere of human activity?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research has just released a new data series on loss-adjusted per capita food availability.
What percent of the U.S. vegetable supply is imported?
What percent of the U.S. fruit supply is imported?
U.S. avocado imports for the January through September period are way up this year.
The Packer’s current poll question is this:
Here is a quick look at U.S. exports and imports of fruits and nuts over the last ten years.
I got some feedback on a Feb. 3 blog post about tomatoes from Michael Schadler, executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange.
Flash forward: what if COVID-19 spreads?
A previous post looked at the rise bagged produce in recent weeks
Produce companies should not back off marketing or advertising efforts now.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently issued per capita availability numbers for fresh produce. Let’s dive into some of the numbers.
The first thing to observe about President Biden’s Buy American executive order is its length. At 2,400 words, the executive order is more like a short story.
In a survey that I ask new members of the LinkedIn Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group, I asked about “biggest challenges and biggest opportunities” for this year.