Logistics
Michel Picandet is the new executive vice president and head of Tomra Food, which designs and makes fresh produce sorting and grading equipment.
Organic citrus growers in California and Texas are reporting ample supplies of good-quality fruit this season, with demand continuing to expand.
Delayed rain in Chile and Mexico and freezes in Southern California could mean the national market needs more volume from Southeastern berry growers.
Kool Logistics LLC, Nashville, has promoted John Druckenmiller to general manager.
It’s more difficult to grow organic berries in the humid, rainy Southeastern part of the U.S. compared to arid California, but growers in Florida are still increasing their stock.
Carrier Transicold has added three new models to its next-generation Supra series of diesel-powered truck refrigeration units.
A referendum on proposed amendments to the federal marketing order for Florida tomatoes is set from May 11 through June 1.
Matt Quiring is now director of sales for Leamington, Ontario-based Nature Fresh Farms.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Truck rates could be headed sharply higher in early May, Kenny Lund told attendees of the National Watermelon Association convention on Feb 21.
As more consumers eat more avocados during more dayparts, the fruit is turning up on more restaurant menus.
Several California growers offer the new GEM avocado, but credit for bringing the variety to the forefront should go to Index Fresh Inc., Riverside, Calif.
The Irvine-based California Avocado Commission has come up with a new advertising campaign to call attention to California avocados this season and help move more of them, said Jan DeLyser, vice president of marketing.
The Hass Avocado Board has invested in a nutrition program that has helped health professionals and consumers understand how avocados are beneficial to their health.
Just as demand for conventional avocados continues to climb, so does demand for their organic counterparts.
Hass is by far the most popular avocado variety gown in California, but consumers who crave other kinds of avocados have a number of options available from the state’s growers.
Mexican table grape production is down this year compared with 2019 but promotable volumes will start earlier.
California cherry growers expect to harvest slightly more fruit this season than last year, assuming they don’t see a repeat of the heavy rainfall that devastated much of their fruit last May.
Produce industry veteran Ron Dandrea, 57, died April 11.
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.
BNSF, which has come under scrutiny this year from the U.S. Surface Transportation Board over late grain deliveries, has told some oil shippers its network can’t accommodate more tank cars.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple opened a federal hearing in Fargo about rail service delays in the upper Plains by reading a letter from a grain elevator that said Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. was 525 cars behind in its service.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says farmers have been “tremendously patient” about rail delays, “but that patience is wearing thin.”
Minnesota officials and propane suppliers say they’re better prepared to avoid repeating the shortages that hit much of the Midwest last winter.
Gov. Mark Dayton is urging the federal government to step in on railroad delays hitting Minnesota grain farmers.
The Missouri Department of Transportation says private and for-hire motor carriers will be able to haul corn, soybeans and other grains at heavier than normal weights.
North Dakota’s congressional delegation is pressing Canadian Pacific Railway to provide details of its backlog of grain shipments, saying farmers need detailed information with fall harvest fast approaching.
The new U.S. Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund is designed to connect rural projects in need of funding with interested investors and lenders.
“Rural infrastructure projects have built-in advantages that should be attractive to financiers. For starters, investment dollars go farther,” McGraw Hill Financial CEO Douglas L. Peterson wrote in an opinion piece for CNBC this week.
Rail congestion and large bounties of crops have some worried about grain storage space as South Dakota’s harvest gets underway.
Wisconsin businesses that produce everything from cheese to gravel are concerned about delays in shipping as railroads divert cars to serve Canada’s grain farmers and North Dakota’s oil industry.