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Auburn Hills, Mich.-based SFL Companies has been named among the 2018 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers by the Food Logistics publication.

With the Trump administration shifting some federal employees away from the border to deal with increased illegal immigration, commercial shipments of produce from Mexico are taking longer to cross into the U.S.

A slight surplus of trucks was reported in several U.S. shipping districts, but truck rates increased in California in early April.

The Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act has been reintroduced by a bipartisan group of Senators and could provide some fixes to hours of service requirements for livestock haulers.

The Modernizing Agricultural Transportation Act has been introduced in the House of Representatives and is yet another legislative proposal that offers fixes for livestock haulers regarding hours of service rules.

All agriculture haulers could be exempted from using electronic logging devices (ELD) if the latest version of the Agricultural Business Electronic Logging Device Exemption Act of 2018 advances through Congress.

Company says it will invest $3 million for upgrades to the facility formerly owned by Michigan farmer Mike Stamp.

Despite the government shutdown, proponents of legislation authorizing new waterway projects and improvements on the existing lock and dam system, believe the bill could pass.

A scale-tipping harvest, a lack of bin space from last year and a shortage of rail cars have some farmers, and some elevators, pouring wheat on the ground because there’s no place to put it.

The ripening corn and soybean fields stretch for miles in every direction from Dennis Wentworth’s farm in Downs, Illinois.