Food 'To Die For' May Do Just That… Seminal Study Encouraging The Eating Of Bitter Vegetables For Health To Be Unveiled At New York Produce Show And Conference
The New York Produce Show and Conference is an unusual event. More intimate than the larger shows, it is second to none in its ambition to provide a world-class event in the Capital of the World. With this year, we have expanded our University Exchange Program across the Atlantic to a most extraordinary Italian University, and […]
PMA’s Fresh Summit Triumph And New Commitment To Educating Women
The PMA convention in Anaheim was undoubtedly a triumph. There were more people — more than 21,000, according to PMA — nearly 3,000 more than ever have attended before. The new format, a day of workshops followed by two days of the trade show, was well received with traffic heavy throughout the show. The PMA/United imbroglio was […]
American Academy of Pediatrics Issues Report On Organic Foods for Children. Conclusion: We Don’t know Much About This Subject.
Will children benefit if fed organic foods? Up until today, any honest person would have had to say that we have no idea. After all, there has been no research done to compare outcomes when children are fed diets of organic food and comparable children are fed conventionally grown foods. Then, all the sudden, a […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Two Views On Bicycle Helmets, Government Regulation, Organic Produce And Boosting Consumption
Our piece — What Do Bicycle Helmets And Organic Produce Have In Common?— brought many responses from all over the spectrum. To some, the idea of government regulating activities of this nature is manifestly about something other than safety: Bureaucrats love regulations and the bigger the bureaucracy, the more rules are created (and the less […]
Mexican Tomato Growers Propose Increased Minimum Prices To Save Anti-Dumping Agreement
We’ve written several pieces on the contretemps between the Mexican tomato growers and their US importers versus the Florida tomato growers: After 16 Years Of Compliance, Florida-Mexican Tomato ‘Suspension’ Agreement Gets Challenged By Florida Growers Claiming Dumping Is Occurring: Is This Just Rent-Seeking? The Florida Tomato Growers Are In The Right Legally, But More Than […]
Perceptions And Misperceptions: Consumer Attitudes On Organic And Local — University Of Connecticut Study To Be Unveiled At New York Produce Show and Conference
At the very heart of The New York Produce Show and Conference is the University Interchange Program, in which great centers of learning reach out to the produce industry and not only lend us their brightest professors to present the most cutting-edge research and thus fulfill their missions to disseminate knowledge, but they also send […]
Ten Years, Ten Lessons Learned: A Look At The European Produce Industry Through The Eyes Of Freshfel’s Philippe Binard
As the trade gathers for the PMA Fresh Summit convention in Anaheim, we thought we would look half-way across the world to Belgium, where Freshfel, sort of a PMA and United combined for Europe, is headquartered. It is a young association — just having celebrated its 10th anniversary. We reached out across the Atlantic […]
Pundit's Mailbag — Florida Versus Mexican Tomatoes: Protectionism Isn’t The Answer
We have run several pieces regarding the dispute between the Florida tomato growers and the Mexican producers: After 16 Years Of Compliance, Florida-Mexican Tomato ‘Suspension’ Agreement Gets Challenged By Florida Growers Claiming Dumping Is Occurring: Is This Just Rent-Seeking? The Florida Tomato Growers Are In The Right Legally, But More Than Tomato Production May Be […]
Cornell Professor Miguel Gómez To Speak At New York Produce Show And Conference On Fruit & Vegetable Dispute Resolution Corporation
When Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas River, they don’t call out the National Guard in each state and declare war over it. They bring a suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn’t a reason in the world why we […]
State Financing Of Refinery Versus Food Production Is No Simple Decision
Alan Siger over at Consumers Produce Co. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sent over an opinion piece in a local newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, titled, “Food for all our neighbors: We should invest as much in Western Pennsylvania agriculture as we do in a ‘cracker’ plant”: ‘We take care of our own’ goes the popular Bruce Springsteen […]
