Spring brings a broad availability of commodities from Mas Melons and Grapes, LLC. It has spent decades building up its offerings. And the company continues to grow its list of commodities and volume.
Maintaining consistency across growing regions can be challenging. Divine Flavor expects to move from strength to strength in regional quality. It also leans on its social programs to maintain consistent quality.
Wholesum is a third-generation organic, family farming operation. It grows and ships 100% organic, Fair Trade Certified fresh produce and grows in both the US and Mexico.
Earthblend will be expanding on several fronts over the next few months. As a four year old company, it has diversified with its sister companies to handle fresh produce from seed to shipping.
The 2021 drought directly cost the California agriculture sector about $1.1 billion and nearly 8,750 full- and part-time jobs, according to estimates in a new analysis led by UC Merced researchers.
A number of issues affect Florida produce growers right now. Those include weather, the ongoing global supply chain disruptions, increased pressure from the supply of foreign products and the domestic labor shortage.
Florida growers have not been spared the string of COVID-19-related disruptions. No one has. The biggest issues were supply chain clogs, labor and truck shortages, and the costs that come with such shortages.
COVID disrupted the world supply chain. Add in labor and truck shortages, inflation and a freeze last year for Texas onion growers, and it’s hard to pin down which challenge was greater.
Onion House, LLC is a grower-shipper, shipping mostly Mexican and Texas onions. The company has about 500 acres of onions in the Rio Grande Valley. The Texas onion season will begin a few weeks later than usual.
