Logistics
Participating retailers in 30 states are contributing a percentage of sales from selected volumes of Vidalia onions to provide college scholarships to support future farmers and agriculture professionals.
Total Quality Logistics is using the term “Pinktober” to describe the company’s month-long blitz to raise funds and support breast cancer research.
Dallas, Texas-based Nogales Produce Inc. is using Paragon Software Systems’ routing and scheduling software to help improve its complex delivery operations.
Delta, B.C.-based Village Farms raised more than $10,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society with the Run for the Cure event.
Compac has begun volume shipping of their next generation internal grading system.
Brian Focht is the new manager of what are known collectively in the Pacific Northwest as the Marketing Associations, representing apples, pears and cherries.
With plenty of drama and plot twists, negotiations related to the tomato suspension agreement between Mexican growers and the Department of Commerce are continuing, according to an official with the U.S. agency.
California table grape growers are shipping record amounts as their season nears an end.
Mexican avocado exports to the U.S. will remain strong in 2018-19, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Alan Kahn is the new vice president of foodservice for the Idaho Potato Commission, Boise.
The relaunch of the Autumn Glory apple was the most literal kind of product launch you could have.
Retail produce managers take note: the Idaho Potato Commission’s 2019 retail display contest wants to send you away. To Hawaii.
The first Frank & Able tomatoes-on-the-vine from an expanded greenhouse have been shipped.
USDA data reports rising truck rates to New York from various produce shipping districts.
Plentiful rain over the winter quenched thirsty fields across California, but will delay fruit and vegetable supplies out of Santa Maria during the spring season.
While above-average rainfall in California this winter put a damper on early supplies of strawberries, grower-shippers expected heavy volume of high-quality fruit once the rain stopped and temperatures started to rise.
The Watsonville-based California Strawberry Commission has a wealth of programs on tap this season to encourage consumers to buy California strawberries.
Plant City, Fla.-based Harvest CROO Robotics has developed a new version of its Harvest CROO — Computerized Robotic Optimized Obtainer — harvester and expects to begin commercial harvesting late this year.
Allen Lund Co., has opened an office in Indianapolis, with Trent Roberts as manager.
Arkansas apple acreage has declined but acreage for the state’s grapes and pecans has risen in the past five years.
Spring typically brings a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables from the Carolinas, and this year is no exception, suppliers and marketers say.
To say there is pushback against the idea of creating another pilot program to allow drivers under 21 to operate commercial trucks is putting it mildly.
Global Cooling Inc. is marketing its Jet-Ready Precoolers as solution for keeping the cold chain for berries and cherries intact.
Ample rain and cool nights have characterized spring weather, but Arkansas produce marketers say they expect 2019 crop prospects to be solid this year.
The Allen Lund Co., La Canada Flintridge, Calif., has promoted Wendy Adan to manager of the company’s San Francisco office.
With sweet potato acreage up over the past 15 years but tomato and watermelon acreage down, area harvested for Arkansas vegetables and melons shows mixed trends.
The Georgia Grown program is partnering with Publix Super Markets on the launch of a local campaign.
The adoption of federal legislation known as MAP-21 exempts the equipment and its operators from some Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.
The agreement provides certain exemptions for farmers in one state who cross into the other while delivering agricultural goods.