Category: Analysis

I decided to check in about the situation with Timothy D. Lytton, a law professor at the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State University College of Law.

How should the avocado industry deal with negative stories about avocado crops with regards to sustainability?

The desert is ramping up production, and produce prices are here to tell the story. In line with historical trends for week #48, the ProduceIQ index is down -5 percent over the previous week.

Canadian consumers are already besieged by high food prices. Now the government is pushing to implement a plastics ban without considering the consequences, including increased prices and reduced access to affordable, healthy food.

The precision agriculture business Netafim has partnered with Vermillion Growers to build the first large-scale vegetable greenhouse in Manitoba, Canada.

The political outlook for 2024 and beyond was the subject of a Virtual Town Hall sponsored by the International Fresh Produce Association on November 29.

On November 27, the Biden administration announced a sweeping range of programs to address supply chain issues that were highlighted during the pandemic.

The latest battle in the food safety war involves cantaloupe, both whole and precut. As of Friday, November 24, the federal Centers for Disease Control reported 99 cases from 32 states, with two deaths.

Representatives of the Canadian produce industry met with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau in San Francisco in November.

Predictably, post-Thanksgiving green bean prices are falling faster than the snow across the Midwest. Average prices are down -37 percent over the previous week.