Produce Talks

Produce Talks is a trade-focused podcast about the fresh produce industry, with a clear Canadian lens and a steady CPMA frame. It treats produce as a supply chain, a consumer habit, a food-safety responsibility, and a health opportunity. The show is interview-driven. Episodes usually set up a practical problem, bring in a guest with direct experience, and let the explanation run long enough to be useful. That gives the program a working-conversation feel rather than a news-magazine gloss. A discussion about nutrition, for example, moves quickly from heart-healthy eating into barriers such as time, online information overload, food cost, storage, and waste. A consumer-trends episode uses survey findings to explain why shoppers can be cautious about buying produce without a specific recipe or immediate need. The show is especially good at separating price from perceived value. It notices that waste, preparation effort, and disappointment can all shape how people interpret cost. Its sustainability coverage is similarly grounded. Packaging is not presented as a simple waste-reduction question; it is connected to shelf life, food waste, commodity movement, retail needs, and supply-chain efficiency. Innovation episodes bring the same practical lens to software, compliance, grower adoption, trade shows, and the limits of existing ERP systems. The tone stays measured even when the subject is uncertain. Year-end conversations with David Coletto connect consumer confidence, federal politics, climate attention, technology, and economic anxiety back to produce-sector planning. Older award and profile episodes add institutional memory, highlighting industry relationships, advocacy, resilience, and recognition within CPMA circles. The show can include sponsor messages and association program mentions, but the editorial center remains practical: what these developments mean for people working in produce. It is not a consumer cooking show, though recipes and Half Your Plate resources appear. It is not a sustainability manifesto, though waste and packaging matter throughout. It is a working brief for an industry that has to balance availability, affordability, safety, health, regulation, and consumer trust.