It’s long been a trope in the produce industry that our products should maybe be in household medicine cabinets instead of refrigerators. Houston’s Dr. Joe Galati is practicing what we’ve been preaching for years — he’s actually sending patients home with prescription vegetables. Galati is a...
No more bananas? Seems impossible. But there’s a very real possibility that bananas — along with other key produce items – could simply disappear in the next few years. Think it couldn’t happen? It already has. If you’re under 60, you’ve probably never eaten what would once have been considered...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article by USDA’s Fred Gale and Elizabeth Gooch is part of a larger study on China’s growing agricultural investments abroad. You can download the entire study at no cost here.China’s need for agricultural resources and technology and the country’s considerable financial clout...
Consumers think of farmers markets as clean, safe and wholesome, the antidote to larger-scale commercial produce growing. They have an idealized image of where the food comes from and how it gets to them. But new research shows there may well be a link between shopping at farmers markets and...
Once upon a time Winn-Dixie stores spread across the South like dew on a summer morning. At its peak, the chain had well over a thousand stores and was a top 10 national retailer. Winn-Dixie can trace its roots to Miami, FL in 1925, when the Davis Family (a significant shareholder until 2012)...
In February of this year, Aries Haygood was riding high. Life was good for the 34-year-old farmer from Lyons, GA. He had a beautiful family, legions of friends, was known and respected throughout Georgia. He was living his dream, growing Vidalia onions on the family farm. He’d gotten so good at it...
Every morning, Richard Ingraham gets up way before you. He makes his way through the streets of Miami to the palatial Biscayne Bay home of America’s ultimate power couple, NBA superstar Dwyane Wade and actress Gabrielle Union. He lets himself in around 5 a.m., puts on a pot of coffee, grabs a cup,...
It’s a figure folks in the food world hear every day: By the year 2050, the world’s population will double. As agriculture becomes a tougher row to hoe professionally day by day, there’s much concern about how we’ll feed all those extra mouths.Geneticist Zach Lippman and his team at New York’s...
The Mayfield Family Made a Name in the Dairy Business; Now a New Generation Reinvents the Modern Family FarmWe’ve all heard the average American farmer is 57-years-old. That is true. But those 57-year-old farmers had to start somewhere to get to that average. At 39, Michael Mayfield is two decades...
When legendary Southern grande dame and Chef Nathalie Dupree rolled out her finest on PBS television back in the day, there was someone behind her heading up the kitchen to make sure everyone looked good. Same holds true for Bobby Flay. And even Martha Stewart has a kitchen chief to make sure her...
