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ProduceIQ: Canadian wildfires haunt the U.S. East Coast

Images of a blurred, scarlet New York City skyline dominated headlines last week. Due to strong Southbound winds, smoke from...

2 years ago 5 minute read

Amazon and the antitrust artillery

I’ve been a member of the Authors Guild since 1999. Recently over lunch I was reading an article by Umair...

2 years ago 4 minute read

Full-service retail comes full circle

I love it when things come full circle. In this case, the retail experience. Retailers have been complaining about increased...

2 years ago 4 minute read

AeroFarms files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Newark, New Jersey, June 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AeroFarms a global leader in indoor vertical farming, today announced that,...

2 years ago 5 minute read

New immigration reform act introduced in the House

News about the U.S. House of Representatives has focused obsessively about the debt ceiling deal. In its wake, a new...

2 years ago 3 minute read

Guatemala seeks to enter U.S. avocado market

Another candidate is itching to join the league of avocado exporters to the U.S.: Guatemala. The Central American nation regards...

2 years ago 2 minute read

Produce can’t seem to crack into the snack spotlight

The produce industry has been trying to crack into packaged snacks for as long as I can remember. I recall...

2 years ago 4 minute read

Baby busts on both sides of the border

I’m always fascinated when I come across one news story that dovetails with another from a different source. Over the...

2 years ago 3 minute read

ProduceIQ: Glorious spuds have never been more expensive

At $28, an 80-count Russet potato market continues to be 60 percent higher than prior years. And unfortunately for potato...

2 years ago 4 minute read

Brighter water outlook in Salinas

The California water picture has gotten enormous amounts of attention from both the agricultural press and the general media, but...

2 years ago 2 minute read

Debt ceiling deal expands SNAP—slightly

Now that the debt ceiling deal negotiated between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been ratified in the...

2 years ago 2 minute read

Blue Book Services hires CEO, CFO, promotes SVP to COO

Blue Book Services has hired a new CEO and CFO and promoted a long-time manager to COO. The 122-year-old credit,...

2 years ago 4 minute read

Storing California’s water in the ground

Groundwater depletion has been an acknowledged fact in California for decades, but for a long time it was stuffed into...

2 years ago 3 minute read

The quest for the blue banana

A Facebook friend of mine expressed some concern that Fusarium wilt will wipe out the familiar Cavendish variety of bananas,...

2 years ago 3 minute read

ProduceIQ: Domestic cherry season makes a dramatic entrance

Happy Tuesday! We hope you avoided the worst of Memorial Day travel traffic, ate a fantastic barbecue, and took some...

2 years ago 4 minute read

British fruit exports to EU drop by half

I remember when the British electorate passed Brexit in June 2016. “Wow!” I thought. “Does that sound like a bad...

2 years ago 4 minute read

Supreme Court curtails WOTUS regulation

The big news of the day—at least in agricultural circles—is the long-awaited May 25 Supreme Court ruling in the highly...

2 years ago 3 minute read

USDA restricts four PACA violators in CA, TX

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing...

2 years ago 3 minute read

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