Sun-World Launches Peru Earthquake Relief Program
Our pieces both yesterday and today have focused on a need for aid to Peru. Now Sun World send a release about its program to provide continuing resources to assist in Peru: Sun-World Responds to Peru Earthquake Victims With agriculture ties to Peru’s ICA region, Sun-World is responding to international requests to help Peru’s ravaged […]
UK Retail Environment Helps Suppliers Break Commodity Mold
Tim O’Connor, President & CEO of the United States Potato Board, always seems to have the experience the industry needs. In the aftermath of the spinach crisis, he wrote us a letter, which we published under the title Pundit’s Mailbag — Buying Safe Food in A Changing World, that drew on his long experience with […]
New Zealand Shows COOL Video
There’s a really great video on Country-Of-Origin labeling … as they conduct the debate in New Zealand. Green Member of Parliament Sue Kedgley is trying to get a COOL bill passed for perishables, while the counterpoint is by Brenda Cutress of The New Zealand Food and Grocery Council. Here is how a TV moderator by […]
Earthquake In Peru Prompts Appeal For Help To Farm Workers There
Life remains precarious in Peru as the nation transitions from searching for survivors to attempting reconstruction. It is difficult to say what the exact situation is for the produce trade. No reliable crop estimates exist as everyone has been focused on the immediate problems. Even if the crop still remains, there are problems with packing […]
Asda and Tesco Buyers Accused Of Arm-Twisting
What happens when retailing gets so concentrated that vendors don’t feel they can say no? Take a look at the U.K. and you get the picture. The news is filled with headlines, such as Tesco, Asda Hit by Allegations That They Threatened Suppliers: Tesco lashed out at the Competition Commission after details of a new […]
California Desert Mangos Are One Man’s Dream
The broad produce industry, understandably, focused on citrus when California had a freeze. The August 2007 issue of Sunset magazine, though, has offered a reminder that the freeze also hit California’s nascent mango crop: California farmers started experimenting with mangos as early as the 1880s, but without much success; too much of the state was […]
Pundit Mailbag — Honor ‘Green’ Attempts
Our piece, Consumers Not So Fast To Go Green, brought this astute observation: The sentence below, from “Consumers not so fast to go Green,” leaves me gasping: Yankelovich’s survey of 2,763 consumers and their environmental attitudes, GOING Green, released today, found that only one-third (34%) of consumers feel much more concerned about environmental issues today […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Naturipe And Sunkist
Our piece, Bruce Peterson Lands At Naturipe As Its New President/CEO, brought lots of fan mail for Bruce and a knowledgeable comment regarding a point we made in the article: I would like to comment on the connection between Bruce Peterson joining Naturipe Farms and “Jeff Garguilo’s difficulty in moving another co-op, Sunkist, to realize […]
New Zealand’s Garlic Growers Almost Extinct
Not sure it will make them feel better, but America’s garlic growers are not alone in their struggles. In New Zealand, there are only four growers left: New Zealand’s garlic industry is on the verge of collapse, say growers. Marlborough is recognized as one of the best places in the world to grow garlic, but […]
It’s OK To Play With Food
We have always thought the marketers behind Arm & Hammer Baking Soda to be the greatest marketers of all time. We suppose baking soda is used in some way for baking but we confess that the Pundit household has bought hundreds of boxes of Arm & Hammer Baking Soda and never used it in any […]
