analysis

A few heavy volume commodities held big numbers this week, preventing an industry-wide collapse in prices. Supplier discipline kept the...

If you don’t have any hilarious job interview stories, you just haven’t been in the workforce. My favorite is that...

I have one of these in my garage; no doubt you do too. Mine is a green bin with a...

In October, the United Kingdom and New Zealand agreed in principle to sign a Free Trade Agreement between the two...

The avocado empire is extending its reach. Jalisco has become the second Mexican state (after Michoacán) to be licensed to...

Some people are skeptical about UFOs, the afterlife, or the existence of God. Personally, I’m skeptical about surveys. It’s partly...

After four weeks of descent, the ProduceIQ Index rebounded by +2 percent. Overall, produce prices tend to increase from the...

It’s curious to think of what you remember a year later of a book you’ve read. Sometimes it’s only one...

It sounds like giving up, and I guess in a way it is. I refer to the Great Resignation—the huge...

The word, transitory, has been thrown around a lot lately in the media, most notably by the Chair of the...

“Milton Friedman was wrong.” The late economist and Nobel Laureate was renowned for (among other things) insisting that the only...

The supply and demand scale may have just tipped against growers and shippers. After an expensive fall season, fresh produce...

Blackcurrants are not exactly a staple item in the U.S., but one development in the crop, grown in the colder...

Your Thanksgiving table may present some of these figures. There’s Grandma. A timid, quiet soul, she prays the rosary three...

Like so many of us who enjoy a good nap after our Thanksgiving meal, produce markets tend to nod off...

“Give peas a chance,” urges the British newspaper The Guardian. They mean instead of avocados. An article dated November 1...

Lettuce is sometimes called a gambler’s crop. If so, it’s been on a roll. Currently, iceberg prices are at around...

The avocado is on a roll. (I will avoid whatever pun that might lead to.) Sitting at a dim sum...