Press sightings

As I work here in the office on Super Bowl Sunday, I noticed a Kevin Moffitt press mention talking up recent demand for Northwest pears.

Also in the weekend press, one California lawmaker's ideas for tracking farmworkers and food safety regulations.
Abel Maldonado, a Republican who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, was quoted,

"We've got to do something to protect California grown and for inspections of imported produce," he said.

In my view, the state of California should leave imported produce to the FDA. There is no sense in establishing state regulations for imported produce, as much as the idea is appealing to California growers facing magnified scrutiny.


Quite a bit of Wal-Mart coverage, including reports of strong January same-store sales growth and a little speculation about its Kansas City meeting last week.