Weekend flurry

The Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group has been active in the last couple of days, even as I have been lallygagging through the weekend. Be sure to join the group this week if you haven't done it yet. Here are just a couple of posts that you will find interesting from the group in the past couple of days:

Calif. farmers want to sell water - Big Apple
From AP:

"It's been a good decade since there's been this much interest in buying and selling water on the open market," said Jack King of the California Farm Bureau Federation. "We're prepared to see significant fallowing in several key parts of the state."As for what this will mean for the cost of food at the supermarket, it's still too premature to say where prices will settle, but I can say that virtually every agricultural district in the Sacramento Valley is thinking about selling their water this year," said Laura King Moon, assistant general manager of the State Water Contractors Association, which represents 29 water agencies.

Food Flex - Luis From Luis:
Safeway's online interactive tool allows loyalty card holders to keep track nutrition info of past past purchases and to generate constrained shopping lists. Wonder how this stacks vs simplified food nutrition labels. Don't know but prefer the "simplex method".

http://shop.safeway.com/nutrition/Tutorial.html