Additional Peru Aid Outlets
Our coverage of efforts to assist the Peruvian farm workers affected by the earthquake began with a piece entitled, Earthquake In Peru Prompts Appeal For Help To Farm Workers There. This led to a piece entitled, Pundit’s Mailbag — Tents Needed In Peru. Simultaneously we ran a separate article pointing out efforts by one company […]
Silbermann Shares Journalism Prize With The Pundit
In the Pundit home state of Florida, there is an annual award ceremony for print magazines. This year, Pundit sister publications, PRODUCE BUSINESS and DELI BUSINESS, won several awards. The Pundit’s column “Organics Redux,” which ran in PRODUCE BUSINESS, won the prestigious “Charlie” award as the best single piece of Opinion, Editorial and Commentary. You […]
‘Great Mates’: USA Pears And New Zealand
It was only in 1999 that USA Pears gained access to the New Zealand market. Now it is the 9th largest export market for American pears. To celebrate and thank the local trade, a dinner themed “Great mates” was held and even the United States Ambassador attended: NEW ZEALAND’S IMPORTERS OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST PEARS ACKNOWLEDGED […]
Food Safety And Sustainability Go Hand-in-Hand At Ocean Mist Farms
Ocean Mist sent over some news: OCEAN MIST FARMS EXTENDS GREEN INITIATIVE TO STAFFING Ocean Mist Farms, the leading grower of artichokes and other fresh vegetables, in its ongoing commitment to sustainable agriculture, is creating a new position dedicated to environmental stewardship. Afreen Malik, currently the manager of food safety, will take on the added […]
More Americans Farming In Mexico
Interesting piece in The New York Times entitled, Short on Labor, Farmers in U.S. Shift to Mexico. Although it doesn’t cite any statistics showing growth, it points to a WGA telephone survey that 12 of its members have 11,000 workers in Mexico. It also mentions a speech on the senate floor by Senator Dianne Feinstein, […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Further Support Efforts For Peru’s Earthquake Victims
As part of our coverage of the earthquake in Peru and industry efforts to help the Peruvians — particularly the farm workers — we ran a piece entitled, Sun World Launches Peru Earthquake Relief Program, that detailed a Sun World effort to get money to help relief efforts in Peru. The gist of Sun World’s […]
Tesco’s Price-Hike Strategy
In late June we ran a piece, Tesco Launches Price War In The U.K., but now there are reports coming out of the U.K. that Tesco has a new strategy: GOING UP: THE NEW TESCO PRICE STRATEGY Retail giant signals an end to the cost-cutting war as concern grows over the quality of cheap food. […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Increasing Concern Over Food Safety Vulnerabilities
We last heard from Jon Schwalls when he sent us a quote from Theodore Roosevelt in the midst of the immigration debate. We called the piece Pundit’s Mailbag — English and Immigration. Now it was our piece Costco Recalls Mexican Grown, U.S. Packed Baby Carrots From Canadian Stores that brings another correspondence: As Food Safety […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — When It Comes To Traceability, We Have The Technology
Our piece, Traceability Falls Short At Distributor Level, pointed out that many products lose their unique identity — and thus their traceability — when they get slotted at foodservice distributors or at retail warehouses. This makes recalls far more difficult and expensive. Two wholesaler/distributors wrote to remind us that this failure is not one of […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — ‘Sunkist Has A Winner’ With Jarred Fruit Line
Our piece, New Sunkist Jarred Fruit Line May Lift Sales Of all Produce Items, brought this thoughtful response: It would be my bet that Sunkist has a winner with the introduction of its jarred fruit line. My reaction is based on first-hand front line experience in the introduction of fresh-cut fruit to the retail trade […]
