Ed McLaughlin

California Ag Leadership Foundation Announces 2024 Lifetime Leadership Award Recipients

June 19, 2024 The California Agricultural Leadership Foundation (CALF)

The California Agricultural Leadership Foundation (CALF) and the Ag Leadership Alumni Council will present the 2024 Lifetime Leadership Award to Mike Campbell, Paul Martin, Ed McLaughlin and John Muller on June 27 in Monterey. The award honors California Agricultural Leadership Program alumni who have demonstrated leadership throughout their lifetime, thereby making a significant difference in California agriculture, their industry and community.  …

Becoming All You Can Be: Cornell and The Foundational Excellence Program

December 7, 2021 Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit

We developed the Foundational Excellence program, working with Cornell University, back in 2015. The hundreds of people that have gone through the program share two characteristics. Not one has ever had a negative word to …

New York Produce Show Discussions: Cornell’s Ed McLaughlin Gazes Into Crystal Ball, Sees Smaller Format Stores With Secondary Warehousing, JIT Delivery, Changes In Retail-Buyer Relationships, Just To Name A Few…

May 14, 2021 Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit

One of the advantages of having done a virtual edition of The New York Produce Show and Conference was that we came out of it with an all-star collection of incredible industry insight. Today, we share with the broader Pundit audience a conversation with Ed McLaughlin of Cornell University. Ed is widely recognized as the world’s leading academic authority on the fresh produce industry and the broader food system. …