Fresh Produce Technology
Technology drives growth and efficiency in the fresh produce industry by optimizing the entire supply chain. Robotics and autonomous harvesters help growers overcome labor shortages, while digital tools and IoT sensors enhance food safety through real-time traceability. AI-driven analytics extend shelf life and minimize waste by maintaining optimal environments for perishable goods. Explore how these innovations are transforming the fresh produce industry for a more sustainable future.
London-based AgriDex, calling itself the “world’s first digital market place” for the food sector, has announced it will begin operations before the fourth quarter of this year.
Bakersfield, Calif.,-based International Fruit Genetics has finally come to the end of infringement proceedings in which it sought to protect its proprietary grape varietals in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Richmond, Va.-based Proseal is offering advanced tray sealing machines for soft fruit growers.
Philadelphia-based AgroFresh Solutions Inc. has launched plant-based edible coatings for produce freshness under the VitaFresh Botanicals brand.
Watsonville, Calif.-based Driscoll’s has announced a partnership with the Israel-based technology solutions company Consumer Physics to leverage its SCiO technology to innovate Driscoll’s quality measurement process.
Angela Scarfia’s 25-second educational video on the ice cream bean fruit earned 283,700 views, 58,000 likes and 764 comments on TikTok.
The Migiva Group, owner of South America fresh produce grower-exporter Agricola Andrea, has partnered with Chicago-based Hazel Technologies to trial Hazel Tech post-harvest application for grapes on a commercial scale.
Murrieta, Calif.-based West Pak Avocado has partnered with Apeel to extended shelf life and reduce food waste for their premium avocados.
Oishii, the producer of a much-hyped seedless, creamy, premium strawberry grown at a Kearny, N.J.-based commercial-scale indoor vertical farm, has closed in on $50 million in funding.
A $314 million ag-tech center — that will grow indoors, copack, distribute and sometimes process fresh greens, tomatoes, blueberries and other produce — is coming to South Carolina.
Orlando, Fla.-based Kalera has announced the purchase of a facility in St. Paul, Minn., which they will convert to a vertical farming facility, according to a news release.
Chicago-based Hazel Technologies Miami-based WP Produce report strong growth in the volume of Dominican Republic tropical avocados treated with the technology.
AeroFarms and Hortifrut S.A. have announced a multi-year partnership to jointly research and develop blueberry and caneberry production in fully-controlled indoor environments and vertical farms.
StixFresh USA, Inc., has rebranded to Ryp Labs, Inc.
Apeel has announced an expanded partnership network made up of more than 20 avocado industry leaders using Apeel’s plant-based protection in the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Together with its partner HiTec Food Systems from the Netherlands KRONEN offers a new version of bell pepper processing systems to the market.
Salix Fruits, the fresh fruit import and export company celebrates its 10th anniversary presenting its app that it developed together with Lyncros.
RipeLocker, a leader in extending the post-harvest life of perishables, today announced it has raised $5 million in series B capital from angel investors.
Inside the 174,000 square foot facility millions of lettuce plants grow from seed to harvest without the single touch of human hands.
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is extending deregulation to J.R. Simplot Company’s potato variety developed using genetic engineering, designated as Snowden Z6 (Z6 potato).
Chicago-based Hazel Technologies, Inc. announces panelists to speak at the virtual Apple Quality Summit held on Friday April 30th.
Irvine, Calif.-based Western Growers has selected 13 companies for the first cohort of its Global Harvest Automation Initiative, a project that aims to automate 50% of specialty crop harvest within 10 years.
Hazel Technologies Inc., has announced a new partnership with Specialty Crop Co., the world’s largest fig grower and producer of pistachios, almonds, pomegranates, citrus, kiwi and persimmons.
New York City-based vertical grower Bowery Farming has opened Farm X, an innovation hub for plant science in Kearny, N.J., next to Bowery’s original R&D Center of Excellence and first commercial farm.
GS1 US announced that Strella Biotech has won the $10,000 first-place grand prize in the third-annual GS1 US Startup Lab Pitch Competition.
As shown by the recent ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS SA, agricultural businesses are not exempt from cybercrime.
The number and size of ransomware incidents have increased significantly, Anne Neuberger, deputy assistant to President Biden, said in a June 2 letter to corporate executives and business leaders.
Produce companies must think the unthinkable and prepare for cyber-attacks before they happen, one consultant says.
Hazel Technologies and Homestead, FL-based A.R. Produce & Trucking Corp. are pleased to report that outstanding quality and program growth continues for key tropical commodities.
It’s no secret the indoor agriculture sector is exploding with startups and existing companies expanding and gaining investments, some going public. But how to scale up wisely amid all this excitement?