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I thought the lines, the social media posts of product availability, and the hoarding common in the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic were a once-in-a-lifetime thing.   Try adding ice, snow, bitter cold temperatures, blackouts, water shortages and boil orders. Texas grocers are surviving an apocalypse – and it’s not over.  

Extreme low temperatures, power outages, gas shortages, and ice-covered roadways threaten crops and logistics across Texas.  

Mastronardi Produce, an industry-leading greenhouse pioneer that sells and markets fresh fruits and vegetables under the SUNSET® brand, today announced the opening of a new 185,000-square-foot facility in Laredo, Texas near its current distribution center.

See how a retailer treats click-and-collect and hot bars in a post-covid new opening.

Dallas and Fort Worth were formerly two distinct cities, but urban sprawl and the Trinity Railway Express have connected them. Still, the two could hardly be more different.

These individuals are acknowledged as trailblazers and innovators, enduring the trials and tribulations for decades that make a life in the fresh produce world.

MISSION, TX—Women in Texas produce have a new networking organization, In Bloom. I talked with April Flowers of Lone Star Citrus Growers about In Bloom's mission, and upcoming events.