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A closer look at IFPA’s moonshot nutrition recommendations

The International Fresh Produce Association BB #:378962 has ambitious plans for increasing fresh produce consumption. Last week, IFPA revealed its...

3 years ago 2 minute read

Stressed? Just slow down and breathe

Stress. Sometimes it seems like a catchall term to explain dysfunctions that are otherwise mysterious. If your doctor doesn’t know...

3 years ago 3 minute read

An ode to tradeshows

After a two-year hiatus, trade shows are back. Attending a show is akin to going to your high school reunion—you...

3 years ago 3 minute read

ProduceIQ: Industry prices soften, still 18% higher than next highest

  Let’s just say it would be quicker to write the list of produce commodities not nearing their record high...

3 years ago 5 minute read

IFPA proposes National Director of Food and Nutrition

The International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) BB #:378962 is shooting for the moon, or shooting the moon (whichever idiom you...

3 years ago 3 minute read

Prescription produce proposed as part of health plans

Imagine leaving your doctor’s office with a little slip of paper saying, “Two pints of blueberries a day” written in...

3 years ago 3 minute read

Colonel Colon to the rescue

I sometimes joke that my favorite superhero is Bleachman. Bleachman was an improbable character featured on ads in San Francisco...

3 years ago 2 minute read

ProduceIQ: Weather keeps heat on prices

Heat is affecting more than just your European vacation. Last week’s California heatwave fanned the flames of commodity prices already...

3 years ago 6 minute read

New federal food agency proposed in Congress

Hey! Maybe I’ll get my wish after all! In a column last month, I suggested detaching food safety regulation from...

3 years ago 4 minute read

Attendee engagement high at Organic Produce Summit

MONTEREY, CA—The Roarin’ 20s continue in the trade show world with record attendance for the Organic Produce Summit July 13-14....

3 years ago 3 minute read

The Produce Reporter Week in Review – July 15, 2022

Pamela and Greg discuss how organic produce is doing in a struggling economy, as she checks in from a busy...

3 years ago 1 minute read

The future crop symbiosis between the U.S. and Mexico

It’s starting to look like a glitch in the Matrix. Yet again, agricultural leaders are calling upon Congress to adopt...

3 years ago 3 minute read

Biden and AMLO: Nothing on immigration for now

To judge from the news accounts, the July 12 meeting between President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador...

3 years ago 2 minute read

Agriculture minus three basic things

American agriculture is going to have to do without three things that it has long taken for granted, according to...

3 years ago 3 minute read

California’s future without agriculture

Well, this is embarrassing. Or it ought to be. For somebody. Namely, for the Institute for the Future and the...

3 years ago 2 minute read

Gig worker law puts 70,000 California truckers in a crunch

It has long been part of the creed for many that federal regulation is a Bad Thing and that it...

3 years ago 4 minute read

Cherry volatility throws off pricing index

The Northwest cherry season got off to a rocky start with lighter supplies than usual, and as a result, the...

3 years ago 1 minute read

Why asparagus is a good fit for mechanical harvest

The produce industry sometimes talks about automation as members of a cult talk about a long-overdue messiah. Sometimes the prospect...

3 years ago 3 minute read

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