New Segment On Fox
Highlights Local Eating
Fox & Friends has kicked off a new segment called “Keep it Local.” Meteorologist Rick Reichmuth stars in at least these first two segments. The first shows Rick shopping at an urban farmer’s market buying ingredients to make brunch and builds around the concept that one should not decide what one likes to eat and […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Giving Produce For The Holidays
Our piece, Pundit’s Mailbag — Gifts From The Heart, chronicled the heart-warming story of the first annual Fresh Express Chickens-4-Charity Challenge. In many ways, the highlight of the story was the many small donations gathered together by the plant workers to contribute to the cause. The program was able to donate both money and frozen […]
Fisher, Koppers, Totty and Wedge
Join Industry Leaders At Symposium
Last year, we unveiled a scholarship program to bring retailers and foodservice executives to the PMA/PRODUCE BUSINESS/Cornell University Leadership Symposium. Here is how we described the enterprise: This year, in order to encourage the participation of a diverse assortment of industry leadership in the program, PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine has partnered with Grimmway Farms and Mann […]
Dan Vache Joins United Staff
There was a time in the industry in which the word “Ryan” had become synonymous with a temperature-recording device and every bad arrival instantly led to the question: “What does the Ryan say?” Working as a youth on the Hunts Point Market loading vans for export, the Pundit learned that there were few sins greater […]
Do UK Retailers Use
‘Bully Tactics’ To Squeeze Suppliers?
As the financial crisis was swirling this past fall, the British newspapers were filled with headlines saying that UK retailers were using the financial crisis and consumer desire for value pricing as cover for efforts that would crush production agriculture. Sean Poulter at The Daily Mail put it this way: Supermarkets have been accused of […]
Perishable Thoughts —
Keeping Things ‘In Perspective’
For 2009
We confess we did not think we would find the words of an investment banker to be the inspiration with which we would elect to reflect on 2008 and start out 2009. Yet it is so. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a non-fiction potboiler entitled, The Weekend That Wall Street Died. It is the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Worthy Cause
“Banana Jim” Still has often contributed to the Pundit; you can see some of his contributions here: Pundit’s Mailbag — Look At Lot Size Pundit Mailbag — Passing The Legacy This time he is sending along word of an organization that could use some help. A perfect example of giving for the holidays and, certainly, […]
Christmas In Honduras…
A Bright New Year Ahead
We just received news of a really great Christmas present. With the first installation in March of 2008, we’ve now run twenty-three articles on the Import Alert the FDA imposed on Agropecuaria Montelibano. It is a horribly sad and unfair story in which one company was unfairly penalized and held mercy to the whims of […]
Perishable Thoughts — Blagojevich
Digs Deep And Quotes Kipling
Did you get to see the Illinois Governor explain his position: The best part is the Governor’s decision to quote Kipling. Governor Blagojevich quotes these lines: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But […]
Learn From The Masters
At Leadership Symposium
Our piece, Leadership Symposium Offers Stimulating Speakers, included an interview with Rod Beckström, Director of the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) U.S. Department of Homeland Security and one of the Symposium speakers. An unusual event offered through a partnership between PMA’s Foundation for Industry Talent, Cornell University and Pundit sister publication, PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine, the […]
