NOVEMBER 24th, 2022

  Market Notes NOVEMBER 24th, 2022      A Thanksgiving Thought   It’s Thanksgiving today Novembers 4th Thursday But it wasn’t always that way So why should it stay 1621 was when it begun T ’was always a Thursday November It jumped up and down, went all around To...

NOVEMBER 17th, 2022

  Market Notes NOVEMBER 17th, 2022 TRANSITION CONDITION      The equipment is working, and the employees showed up. The electricity is on, and the processing rooms roar as the southern exposure comes to life. The week has been rough as predicted.  Filling orders on...

NOVEMBER 10th, 2022

  Market Notes NOVEMBER 10th, 2022   FARMER VETERAN COALITION (This is a reprint from last year. We can’t think of anything better to offer)      Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) was born out of the produce industry. On May 6, 2007, a handful of organic farmers gathered...

October 27th, 2022

  Market Notes October 27th, 2022       HALLOWEEN AND THE PMA Today is a Thursday, it is not a holiday, but everybody has gone away. How do we present this, so you won’t resent this, and still have something to say. The words we write here could be wrong or right...

October 20th, 2022

  Market Notes October 20th, 2022   THE GREEN SCENE TRANSITION    For the commodity market lettuce, times are tough. The Salinas Valley and surrounding areas, the northern growing season done. The move down south is about three weeks away, and in the meantime,...