Tag: analysis

The price index for fruit and tree nuts was up 9 percent from June 2023 and 11 percent from July 2022, reports USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS).

Pamela calls in from Bavaria, where she checks out the retail trends in Europe. News slows down around the holidays but Greg says a federal indictment for produce inspection fraud spiced things up.

The New York Times article on water conservation in California’s Pajaro Valley, which I discussed in a previous column, is worth more discussion

This week, U.S. News & World Report released its 2024 rankings of Best Diets, and fruits and vegetables emerge as the star.

The New York Times is no doubt aiming for a Pulitzer with its multi-article series on groundwater use in America.

Although the rest of the world is so over 2023, we have a few more observations from the peanut gallery to digest.

As the start of 2024 races into focus, this is both a season of thanksgiving for what’s been accomplished and a season of hope for what’s to come.

Sometimes the longer you look back, the clearer the future can seem. Several issues seem set to dominate the produce agenda in 2024.

“Significant,” “important” progress was made in discussions on immigration between Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken yesterday.

“There’s only one thing men’s rights activists hate more than women, minorities, and using preferred pronouns, and that’s ingesting anything besides red meat,” writes The Onion. It “asked right-wing men why they refuse to eat vegetables, and this is what they said.”