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For a whole summer, our car smelled of garlic. We cleaned the car out, took out all garbage, looked under...

I have been communicating with a few industry leaders about their take on what is happening within the industry, their...

March 29 marks the end of what has been, for most people, the third week of tightening social distancing measures...

The impacts of COVID-19 on the fresh produce industry are fast-moving. Unfortunately, this virus is spreading quickly around the entire...

The California Fresh Fruit Association and Western Growers BB #:144734 sent letters late last week to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue...

It’s a small blessing that the unprecedented panic about the coronavirus have pushed fears about food into the background. This...

Greg Johnson spoke with the Richard Owen, vice president of global trade for the Produce Marketing Association BB #:153708 about...

To the produce industry: We are well aware of the stress being placed on the produce supply chain and each...

Tim York has worked his way through a spinach outbreak crisis and recent romaine lettuce recalls, but he’s never before...

Anyone familiar with California agriculture knows that the industry regards the state’s stringent regulations as a curse visited upon it...

Greg was out on vacation last week, and came home to something a little…different. The world of grocery and foodservice...

I will be short and sweet: Blue Book is open for (your) business. We are here to help you and...

I stayed my wife’s hand the other evening. Making a nutritionally respectable meal of broiled salmon over baby spinach greens,...

In recent days we’ve all seen and read the toilet paper memes, negative and positive posts, the panic buying of...

Greg and Pamela discuss industry events affected by coronavirus, and the one thing that’s not: how to wash your produce....

I wonder when the coronavirus, or COVID-19, will cease being a threat to the health of the world. My fervent...

As an industry, we see hundreds of business closures each year. Many are planned with a carefully thought out exit...

Pamela and Greg discuss the produce and retail industry’s response to coronavirus and why Pamela’s glad she’s been stockpiling trade...