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Mexico, USA and Canada are largest trading fresh block in the world!

USA Food & Agricultural exports to Canada and Mexico grew $9 billion/1993 to $40 billion/2018 creating 900,000 USA jobs in food, agricult...

Good news 52% are consuming healthier diets even during C-19

GenZ and Millennials are consuming healthy diets regardless of C19 with multiple dietary approaches and priorities and practices. These g...

Food Inflation: The 5 foot versus the 30,000 foot vision:

The average price of food in the USA rose while gasoline went down. Some of the foods the Bureau of Labor and Statistics surveys every mo...

Eggs Crisis - March Consumer prices for 2019 vs. 2020

While overall food costs increased Month to Month, March 2019 vs. March 2020 due to lack of inventories, Dairy farmers found themselves d...

Going Bananas

European nations consumed the highest dollar worth of imported bananas during 2018 with purchases valued at $8.8 billion or 56.3% of the ...

Garlic

In the Early 90’s, China accounted for only 2% of the garlic imported to the United States. By 2009 it was up to about 50% and by 2012 it...

UNITED STATES is a Stable customer

Developing economies shipped most of their exports to the United States of America in 2018 - US$1.4 trillion - followed by China - US$1.1...

We knew there was poverty in rural America – How much?

Areas with a high incidence of poverty often reflect the low income of their racial/ethnic minorities. Nonmetro Blacks/African Americans ...

Single mothers in rural America

Family type has a significant bearing on poverty. In 2017, the poverty rate was more than 8 percentage points higher for nonmetro familie...

Global Fresh Food Market keeps growing!

The global Fresh Food market is projected to be US$ 461.1 Billion in 2018 to reach US$ 689.7 Billion by 2028 at a CAGR of 4.1%. Majority ...

Labor shortage now and during world war foster innovation!

In the course of the war, 15 million men and women were called up into the military. At the time, the entire workforce consisted of only ...

Data that impacts farmers

Only 8% of U.S. farms have contracts. Two-thirds of the value of U.S. farm production is sold without contracts. While 95 percent of smal...

Organic sales grow on both continents

Organic fruits and vegetables represent 36% of total sales in Western Europe and the USA forecasting a 6.7 percent and 7.6 percent growth...

Choice architecture impacts sales through Fresh produce

When fresh produce is displayed prominently at the front entrance of supermarket, sales go up by 15 percent. A five-year experiment in En...

Bacon and Pork Chops should be cheaper!

Steep tariffs mean more of the U.S. pork supply is likely to be sold domestically. Up until recently, 9 out of 10 pig’s feet and heads an...

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