analysis

One of the biggest stories in agriculture over the past few days has to do with an impasse between the...

Not too long ago, the produce industry watched as billions of dollars went into the indoor farming boom. While I...

Is foreign ownership of real estate a security concern for the United States? After all, no matter who owns it,...

The spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff tells an amusing story about a Kurd who comes across some beautiful fruit in a...

If you don’t understand the California water scene, you’re in a large company. Most of the state’s residents don’t either....

The potato plant is a Jekyll and Hyde: the part that grows underground is a major food staple, while the...

The California sky is finally clear, but the damage reports are just rolling in. Strawberry growers in California are reporting...

My colleague Pamela Riemenschneider is understandably excited about her new pair of Nikes featuring dragonfruit. Dragonfruit gets boost from Nike,...

Greg and Pamela discuss the fallout from the California rains on various crops, and Pamela displays an addition to her...

It has long seemed to me that the aspect of industry that is in the grossest need of innovation is...

I must temporarily overcome my hatred of acronyms by mentioning a common one: ESG. It is a buzzword found almost...

I want to be trendy (at least sometimes), so let me go with the trendy flow and talk about nepo...

When the White House Conference on Nutrition, Hunger and Health released a strategy in September 2022 (50 years after the...

This year, the World Economic Forum borrowed the produce industry’s slogan, “cooperation in a fragmented world,” as their theme for...

Biological controls for aphids in apples have been contemplated (and used) for decades. Enemies of the pest include species of...

Well, this is unusual. I come across a news item indicating that growers are quite happy with a government-mandated wage...

“Peru’s political crisis reveals ungovernable country,” states a headline in the French newspaper Le Monde. Peru’s political crisis reveals ungovernable...

The investment world was rattled a few days ago when Wells Fargo downgraded the stock of the stumbling retail giant...