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Blueberries are this week’s winner, helping the ProduceIQ Index jump to the highest prices for a week #11. Overall, markets...

In a recent press release by Progressive Produce BB #:113613, CEO Jim Leimkuhler, who is retiring at the end of...

The U.S. House of Representatives expect to pass the Farm Modernization Workforce Act as soon as Thursday, March 18. The...

Maybe I just didn’t go with the right attitude. A couple of months ago, I wrote a column expressing skepticism...

After four years of Brexit talk, one might be forgiven for thinking that we have had enough of discussing the...

Following the cold, long days of winter, the coming of spring invites optimism for increased demand in fresh produce. Week...

Like everyone, I suppose, who has ever strolled along a beach on the California coast, I have been awed by...

Despite valiant surges by bell pepper and cauliflower, the produce industry needs an increase in demand to drive up struggling...

Have you ever stopped to think about your business name? I don’t mean how catchy it sounds or how cool...

The pet industry is booming in the United States, and pets, especially dogs, represent a unique rising consumer class for...

There appears to be a mechanism in the human brain that sorts everything into Good News versus Bad News. What...

Overall markets descend after holiday pull turns into a lull. While higher-priced fruits and berries finally fall, demand remains anemic...

You should be concerned if you looked at the data in the State of the Plate: America’s Fruit and Vegetable...

Economic forecasting is a treacherous art, and one that would seem to be doomed to failure. It can only predict...

Overall produce markets gained 2 percent as a major winter storm plunged much of the U.S. into a deep freeze....

Many produce companies have embraced—or at least acknowledged the importance of—using analytics and data to make business decisions. In 2021,...

In the fall we turned our clocks back an hour, then focused on year-end activities including a rigorous financial and...

The blueberry war is over—or at least a phase of it. On February 11, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)...