March 12th, 2012 
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My first memory of Berlin was crossing over to East Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie in the summer of 1984. The landscape faded from brilliant Technicolor to black and white with the ubiquitous grey buildings throughout the East. Wide boulevards were deserted as people ambled down them. Available food in the restaurants was in pretty bad [...]
March 12th, 2012 admin The produce industry is one of the most mysterious and puzzling sectors to outsiders. “I happened to to fall into it,” is the most frequent response in conversations with other individuals employed in produce. We operate like most companies in corporate America with positions from sales to quality control headed by a CEO and board [...]
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Tags: Fresh Fruit Portal, Produce Careers, Technology in Produce 
No Comments » October 13th, 2011 admin Have a new produce item to introduce? New recipe, usage tips or would like to know more about your customer on a limited marketing budget? If you had a way of reaching 10 million people to give them that product message would you utilize it? That ‘IT’ is technology in various forms from social media [...]
Posted in Fresh Fruit Portal, Imports, Technology Tags: Fresh Fruit Portal, Smartphone App, Southern Hemisphere No Comments » September 14th, 2011 admin As international trade in fruits and vegetables expands, consumers are benefiting from a wider variety of produce to choose from and year-round-supply due to increased trade between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Among all the agricultural sectors, fruit and vegetable trade has expanded at a higher rate than other agricultural commodities, according to USDA statistics [...]
Posted in Fresh Fruit Portal, Imports, Summer Fruit Tags: Chile, Fresh Fruit Portal, Southern Hemisphere No Comments » July 28th, 2011 admin 
Christopher Columbus put South America on the fruit export map in the 1400’s with the introduction of pineapples to Spain, while in the 19th century the continent’s first avocadoes were introduced in the U.S. Fast forward to 2011 and South America continues to play an important role in supplying the world, particularly the U.S., with [...]
Posted in Food Safety, Fresh Fruit Portal, Imports, Summer Fruit Tags: Chile, Food Safety, Fresh Fruit Portal, Pesticides, Southern Hemisphere, USDA No Comments »
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