Category: Featured
Why the Trader Joe’s 15th Annual Customer Choice Awards fresh produce picks might surprise you
- Featured
When Trader Joe's announces its annual Customer Choice Awards and I see that BANANAS won … again … I can’t help but feel let down.
Zespri CEO to join Driscoll’s
- General News
Zespri CEO Dan Mathieson will leave Zespri to take up a new position as President of the Americas for global berry company Driscoll’s.
ProduceIQ: Someone, please turn on the heat
- Featured
As you can imagine, crops like tomatoes and cucumbers that fled South with the rest of Florida’s snowbirds wonder if the driver was using Apple Maps and missed a turn somewhere.
Courtesy Contacts: New from Blue Book’s Trading Assistance team
- Produce Blueprints
Blue Book Services recently introduced what we’re calling “Courtesy Contacts” for situations where the claimant isn’t quite ready to open a collection.
ProduceIQ: Cold weather doomsayers do not disappoint
- Featured
We didn’t intend for last week’s headline to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Let’s agree to blame El Nino, OK?
Stone fruit giant Prima Wawona plans to liquidate
- General News
Prima Wawona Cutler, CA, plans to liquidate and has given employees 60-day termination notices, according to recent court filings.
VIDEO: Low temps, ice hit desert crops, causing damage and delays
- General News
Cold temperatures and lettuce ice are developing in the Arizona/California desert growing region. Markon First Crop (MFC) Green Leaf, Iceberg, and Romaine packs are available.
Dole expands fresh fruit shipping service
- General News
Dole Food Company announced the launch of a new weekly vessel service that will call the Northeast United States that started December 31, 2023.
ProduceIQ: Cold weather freezes index prices at all-time high
- Featured
Winter is making up for lost time. Back-to-back storms Ember and Finn brought wintery weather to most of the United States over the weekend, including ice to lettuce-growing regions in Arizona and more rain for water-logged Florida.
ProduceIQ: Wake up, sleeping giant
- Featured
Although the rest of the world is so over 2023, we have a few more observations from the peanut gallery to digest.