The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly
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The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly
The Produce Industry is very complex and covers A to Z literally Asparagus through Zucchini. We will discuss all types of markets foreign and domestic including Supply, Demand, Logistics, Technology, Food Safety, Sustainability, Industry Categories, Market Reports and Industry news, and more!!! Sup...
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Port of Savannah: The Fresh Produce Industry’s Strategic Gateway in the Southeast
Join Patrick Kelly and special guest Judd Bare from Georgia Ports as they explore the Port of Savannah’s rise as North America’s third largest port co...
Fighting for the Farmer: The Cesar Mora Story Beginning
In this eye-opening episode of the Produce Industry Podcast, host Patrick Kelly sits down with California grower Cesar Mora to discuss a high-stakes l...
River Fresh Farms Navigates Wet Veg Market Weather and Value-Added Innovation
Join Patrick Kelly and co-host Ross Nelson as they welcome Dean Fahselt of River Fresh Farms to delve into the dynamic world of wet vegetables. Discov...
Uzbekistan: The Emperor Who Wept Over a Melon - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did the man who just conquered India weep over a melon — and what does that tell us about the fruit that travelers from Ibn Battuta to Victorian c...
Germany: The Purity Commandment - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did 27 words buried in a Bavarian price regulation from 1516 become the most famous food law in history — and why did it take 402 years for anyone...
Ghana: Six Pods in a Toolbox - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did a blacksmith hide six cocoa pods under his tools to smuggle them past Spanish customs — and how did those six pods become the foundation of an...
Belgium: The Potato Famine in Flanders - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did the potato blight begin in Belgium before it reached Ireland — and why has the Flemish famine of 1845, which killed tens of thousands and stun...
Haiti: The Black Jacobins - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did the most productive colony in the entire world — generating 40 percent of Europe's sugar from an area the size of Maryland — become the site o...
Brazil: Rubber and Ruin - The History of Fresh Produce
Why does the most extravagant opera house in the history of South America sit in the middle of the Amazon rainforest — and how did a wild tree, a Conn...
Elevating Fresh Produce with Sprouts' Meghan Diaz
Join host Patrick Kelly and special guest Meghan Diaz from Sprouts Farmers Markets as they explore the evolving definitions of local and hyperlocal pr...
The King of Pluots, Brandywine Tomatoes, and More 4th of July Favorites - Fresh From the Field Fridays
This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, Dan the Produce Man brings you four groovy goodies for your 4th of July weekend. No watermelons. No corn. J...
Bosnia & Herzegovina: The Soul of a Plum - The History of Fresh Produce
Why do Bosnian Muslims make and celebrate a plum brandy that Islamic law technically forbids — and what does their answer to that question reveal abou...
Cape Verde: The Grogue Trail - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did a Portuguese colonial sugar ban inadvertently create Cape Verde's national spirit — and what does it reveal about how cultures find ways throu...
Egypt: The Sacred Onion - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did a Greek historian standing at the foot of the Great Pyramid in 450 BC record that its builders were fed on onions, garlic, and radishes — and...
Europe's Heat Wave and the Fresh Produce Supply Chain Under Pressure - Global Fresh Series
Tune in for a timely discussion on the risks, opportunities, and innovations shaping the future of fresh produce in the face of rising temperatures.
Iraq: How Irrigation Destroyed the Civilization That Invented It - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did the civilisation that invented writing, cities, and law destroy the very soil that made it possible — and why are sixty to seventy percent of...
Japan: The Emperor's Sacred Paddy - The History of Fresh Produce
Why does the Emperor of Japan — head of state of one of the most technologically advanced nations on Earth — wade into a rice paddy every year to plan...
Sweden: The Swede Who Named the Natural World - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did a restless boy from a rural Swedish parsonage end up giving a name to every living thing on Earth — and how did he build a system so durable t...
USA Celebrating 250 Years,, World Cup Flavor & Fourth of July Produce
Join Patrick Kelly and co-host Ross "The Produce Boss" Nelson, as they celebrate America's 250th anniversary with a festive discussion on Fourth of Ju...
Summer Produce Spotlight: Suncrest Peaches, Mini Midnight Watermelons & More - Fresh From the Field Fridays
This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, Dan "The Produce Man" Avakian takes you through some of the best fresh produce in season. This week's lineu...
Spain: The Red Gold of La Mancha - The History of Fresh Produce
Why does it take between 150,000 and 200,000 flowers — and up to 470 hours of human labour — to produce a single kilogram of saffron, and why has the...
DR Congo: The King Who Owned a Country - The History of Fresh Produce
How did a shipping clerk in Antwerp discover one of the greatest crimes of the nineteenth century simply by paying attention to which ships were carry...
Paraguay: The Yerba Mate Jesuit Empire - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did a Jesuit republic of 140,000 people in the subtropical forests of South America — with its own armed militia, its own printing presses, its ow...
From Orchard to Ocean: Europe’s Apple Season Transitions to Global Supply - Global Fresh Series
Join the Global Fresh Series as we follow the journey of apples across continents and discover how growers, importers, and retailers work together to...
Austria: Styrian Identity in Pumpkin Seeds - The History of Fresh Produce
Why does a single spontaneous genetic mutation in a Styrian pumpkin field — sometime in the nineteenth century — matter enough to trigger diplomatic r...
Iran: The Garden That Became Heaven - The History of Fresh Produce
Why does the word "paradise" — as used in every European language, in Arabic, in Urdu — simply mean "walled garden" in Old Persian, and what does that...
Colombia: The Coffee Farmer Who Never Existed - The History of Fresh Produce
Why was the most famous coffee farmer in the world a Cuban-American opera singer from Havana who had never visited Colombia — and how did a fictional...
Summer Citrus Insights with GT Parris of Seald Sweet
Join Patrick Kelly and special guest GT Parris, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Seald Sweet, as they dive into the dynamic world of South Afr...
From Yumi Watermelon to Stockton Sweet Reds: Fresh Picks of the Week - Fresh From the Field Fridays
This week on Fresh From the Field Fridays, Dan The Produce Man is serving up a table full of summer flavor! From Yumi watermelon and Adriatic figs to...
Czechia: Gregor Mendel's Peas and the Birth of Genetics - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did a monk in a Moravian monastery spend eight years counting 30,000 pea plants — and how did the number three to one unlock the secret of heredit...
Qatar: The Locust and the Desert - The History of Fresh Produce
Before the gas flares and the glass towers, before the air conditioning and the sovereign wealth fund, what did Qatar actually have? Why was a single...
South Africa: The Rooibos Dispute - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did the Khoisan people of South Africa spend nine years in legal negotiations to receive 1.5 percent of an industry built entirely on knowledge th...
The Biggest Opportunity in Fresh Produce: Winning the FIFA World Cup 2026 Consumer - Global Fresh Series
This week's Global Fresh Series takes you to the biggest stage—that could also be fresh produce's biggest opportunity, the FIFA 2026 World Cup to expl...
Scotland: Dundee Marmalade and the Keiller Family - The History of Fresh Produce
How did a storm-battered Spanish ship, a Dundee harbour, and a grocer's wife with a pan full of unsaleable bitter oranges accidentally create one of t...
Portugal: Spices, Empire, and the Pepper That Built Lisbon - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did the Visigoths demand three thousand pounds of black pepper as the ransom for Rome — and what does that tell us about a climbing vine in Kerala...
Tunisia: Olive Oil and the Roman Breadbasket - The History of Fresh Produce
Why does a town of 20,000 people in central Tunisia contain the third largest Roman amphitheatre ever built - and what does a structure that seated 35...
From Cuba to Citrus Success: The Inspiring Journey of Mayda Sotomayor-Kirk
Join host Patrick Kelly as he sits down with industry legend Mayda Sotomayor-Kirk at the Seal Suite headquarters in Vero Beach.
Discover Mayda'...
Tuscan Cantaloupes, Royal Blenheims and the Great Apricot Debate - Fresh From the Field Fridays
This week on Fresh From The Field Fridays, Dan The Produce Man brings another helping of produce knowledge, seasonal insights, and practical tips you...
Norway: The Potato Priest Who Fed Norway - The History of Fresh Produce
Why did Norwegian farmers believe that eating potatoes would give them leprosy — and who were the potato priests who spent fifty years smuggling tuber...
Australia: The War on Rabbits - The History of Fresh Produce
How did twenty-four rabbits released by one man for a "spot of hunting" in 1859 colonise an entire continent within thirty-five years — and why did a...