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Cincinnati-based Total Quality Logistics is seeing growth in contract business with produce shippers, company leaders said.

Onion growers and shippers in the Idaho-Eastern Oregon District, like colleagues elsewhere, say they are finding practical use for multiple options in packaging that didn’t exist in years past.

Mike Krage is the Idaho Potato Commission’s newest retail promotions director, covering the Northeast and Midwest.

Truck rates have fallen from the historic marks reached earlier this summer but remain well above 2017 levels.

Giving commercial truck drivers as young as 18 the ability to operate across state lines is drawing support from industry leaders. The current age requirement is 21 years old.

August Battaglia, doing business as QMP Sales, has satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

Unitec Group, which designs and manufactures equipment for sorting, packing and processing more than 35 fruits and vegetables, is showcasing its products at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.

Short of going the H-2A route, labor remains a problem in the onion industry.

Americold is opening a cold storage facility in East Point, Ga., primarily to serve Sprouts Farmers Market.

In an era of increased food safety regulation, transporting produce has gotten a lot more complicated than simply shipping product from Point A to Point B, brokers say.

(CORRECTED, Sept. 7) SUN VALLEY, Idaho - Current transportation rates for Northwest potato shippers reflect sharply lower truck rates compared with a year ago, but the market may have hit bottom and could move hig

Visalia, Calif.-based Advanced Transportations Services Inc. continues to add driver teams for its fleet, said Marshall Kipp, the company's CEO.

Guatemala Produce Trade Association has published a category management plan for fresh beans and peas.