Produce Podcasts
Keystone Packing CEO Randy Asadoor and Sabrina Thakkar, director of the California Association of Food Banks’ Farm to Family program, discuss the organizations’ unique partnership and the growing need for fresh produce at food banks.
LeAnne Ruzzamenti, director of marketing and communications with the Equitable Food Initiative, highlights this year’s award, and shares the critical role farmworkers play in the fresh produce industry and why it’s important to recognize them.
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Wiggs Civitillo, founder and CEO of Starfish, which helps companies share traceability information, discusses the recent delay in FSMA 204 compliance and what companies should and shouldn’t do during this delay.
John Ross, IGA CEO, shares his company’s strategy to transition to 2D bar codes and the benefits the bar codes hold for the fresh produce industry.
Matthew Aronson, chief revenue officer at Verdant Technologies, shares how the company deploys 1-MCP in a new way to offer better produce to retailers and reduce the use of ice in shipping.
Lucelena Angarita, director of food supply chain visibility at GS1 US, shares why it’s never too early to start preparing for the Food Traceability Final Rule going into effect January 2026.
In this “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast episode, third-generation pistachio grower and HotSpot Ag President James Nichols shares how data and innovative technology can help deploy water where its most needed.
Joelle Mosso, associate vice president of science programs for Western Growers, talks about the conflicting needs of sustainability and food safety in fresh produce in this episode of the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast.
On this episode of the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast, Pairwise co-founder and CEO Tom Adams talks about gene editing and its potential role in the future of the produce industry.
Delbert Bland, founder of Glennville, Ga.-based Bland Farms and recent inductee into the Vidalia Onion Hall of Fame, sits down with Christina Herrick, produce editor for The Packer, to share his favorite way to eat Vidalia onions, the importance of a federal marketing order and more.
Kevin Moffitt will retire this year from the nonprofit marketing agency. In this “Tip of the Iceberg” episode, he shares highlights of his 35 years, what the future holds for pears and more.
In this “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast, Jim Bair, president and CEO of the U.S. Apple Association, talks rising food prices, slowing grower returns and the current challenges to maintaining a profitable apple business.
In an industry that is a dynamic as it is chaotic, fresh produce industry leaders and mental health advocates have shared resources for managing stressors faced every day.
Episode 35 of Tip of the Iceberg Podcast features Nick Houshower of private equity firm Equilibrium, an investor in the greenhouse produce space, including with Little Leaf Farms, Revol Greens, AppHarvest and Houwelings.
ZAG Technical Services CEO Greg Gatzke joins the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast to discuss why ag is one of the most vulnerable business segments to cyberattacks and what business owners can do to be better prepared.
Listen to Episode 69, featuring two new editors at The Packer and PMG, discussion about the coming GOPEX show in Florida and retail shortages.
Who is Dole working with for an artificial intelligence-powered quality control software solution and how can it affect how retailers handle their produce transactions?
Fresh carrots have been a mainstay at retail: They’re grown year-round, have a relatively low sticker price, are familiar and hardy for shipping.
We love trends lists! So let’s delve into what the industry expects to happen with produce in 2022.
Eating healthy doesn’t have to be expensive — well, more expensive than everything already is these days with price inflation in all sectors. Healthy Family Project’s Amanda Keefer has advice.
In Episode 3 of Season 2 of the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast, we meet Angela Scarfia, a bonafide exotic fruit expert — and in her “free” time, no less.
At Viva Fresh Expo on April 23, just outside Dallas in Grapevine, Texas, expect a live podcast broadcast on-site.
Imagine: Using drones to detect and remove landmines at Ukrainian farms. Or to deliver lettuces to a salad bar in North Carolina and pick apples from a commercial orchard in Wisconsin.
In season 2, episode 5 of the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast, Beth Keeton of Elephant House Public Relations shares her health journey on the Viva Fresh Clean Eating Challenge.
We’ve wondered how those ultra-rapid grocery delivery services actually work. Maybe you have too. Listen to this podcast episode of “Tip of the Iceberg” to learn from someone on the inside.
Stress, anxiety and depression can kill. And there are many produce professionals suffering silently without knowledge of how to cope in healthy ways, how to seek support and, when necessary, professional help.
In this Tip of the Iceberg Podcast episode teaming up with EFI, learn about a greenhouse brand that expanded a program because of how many supermarket shoppers called the customer hotline about it.
No one wants to be seriously worried about their physical safety — beyond the usual look-both-ways-when-you-cross caution — when they get out of their vehicle and walk to their work building.
How did this retail professional get into farm labor contracting? What’s his greater mission? Read the story summary or listen to the whole story on this episode of the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast.
On the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast: Tom Cingari of the Cingari Family ShopRite supermarkets talks store modernization, sustainable changes, produce trends, digital impulse buys. Read about the first two topics here.