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After a recent food safety report, FDA targets California’s central coast region leafy green farms and ranches for additional tests.

With a fleet of about 200 trucks and about 300 trailers, Twin Falls, Idaho,-based Giltner Inc., is an asset-based shipper with heavy business in the fresh produce sector.

National editor Tom Karst and staff writer Ashley Nickle discuss the latest 90-day delay for produce shippers on the ELD mandate and how blueberries fared in some recent cold weather.

Crowley Logistics has opened an expanded warehouse in Miami in early April, consolidating two facilities and adding 60,000 square feet to the operation.

David Allen Lund, who founded and led the Allen Lund Co., has died.

Coast Produce is expanding in three key states with facilities that enhance the company’s cross dock and consolidation services, and alleviate pressures of new electronic logging device mandates.

Brandy McMullen has been named general office manager of Choptank Transport’s Tampa, Fla., office.

A recent gathering of trade officials from eight countries are a good signal for increased international commerce, according to Port Manatee officials in Palmetto, Fla.

Robinson Fresh is focusing on its network of service centers across the U.S. to help increase supply chain efficiency and bring customers fresher perishable shipments.

Index Fresh has hired Abdoulie Jobe in the new position of logistics manager.