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Salad Prices Are Soaring. An Unusual Culprit May Be To Blame
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 - 11:46am | 878It’s not your imagination: that salad on your table is getting more expensive. Some data points back to shifting eating patterns that emerged from the pandemic in 2020. Produce farmers like Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc (NYSE: FDP) struggled in 2020 and even lost money in the fourth...
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Heated Produce Season May Further Freeze Capacity
Thursday, July 22, 2021 - 10:48am | 1414This summer is shaping up to deliver a very strong season for produce. With capacity as tight as it is now, many industry leaders are speculating that any difficulty in sourcing refrigerated trailers may impact the dry van segment as well, considering the ongoing effort supply chains are making...
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Fresh Produce Freight Platform Hwy Haul Raises $10 Million In Series A
Monday, May 10, 2021 - 1:54pm | 973When Amazon bought Whole Foods and introduced Amazon Fresh, a doorfront delivery service for a customer’s grocery needs, a sigh of relief fell collectively. The ever infamous ‘grocery shopping’ seems to take a great deal of time and planning for everyone, and the ability to simply...
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Farm Owner: Produce Farmers Are Losing $1B Each Week
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 5:33pm | 311Farmers across the U.S. that focus on fresh produce are losing a combined $1 billion each week, "The Growing Season" author and farm owner Sarah Frey said Tuesday in a Fox Business interview. What Happened: The approximate 250,000 fresh produce farms across the U.S. are struggling and the...
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Heat Wave Pushing Florida Strawberries To Their Peak
Monday, March 9, 2020 - 10:30am | 1257The Florida strawberry season is literally heating up as crops come into the peak of the season just a bit earlier than usual. Florida is the second-largest strawberry-producing state in the nation, with approximately 10,000 acres planted and 180 million strawberries picked by hand each year. This...
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Borderlands: Mexico's Demand For US Apples Rises; Pharr International Bridge Is Number 3 Land Trade Hub In Texas
Monday, December 9, 2019 - 1:13pm | 1244Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Washington's apple exports to Mexico continue to rise; Pharr International Bridge is No. 3 land trade hub in Texas; Marc Kiven joins cross-border freight company Forager...
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US Importer Expects Increase In Mexican Avocados This Winter
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 10:15am | 688Mexican avocado imports to the U.S. are expected to increase around 6% this winter compared to the same period last year, with as much as 2 billion pounds of avocados shipped from Mexico over the next several months. "Mexico definitely has the volume this year to hit the 2 billion mark of imports...
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A Look At Apple Freight
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 5:02pm | 901The release of Washington state's first homegrown apple variety is getting the kind of star treatment typically accorded the debut of a major Hollywood movie, with a $10.5 million marketing campaign, a film trailer — "coming late 2019, 20 years in the breeding" — and a name, Cosmic Crisp, that...
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How Walmart Is Changing The Produce Shopping Experience
Thursday, November 21, 2019 - 10:24am | 375Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) EVP and head of Walmart U.S. Food Charles Redfield took a look back at the company's produce business in a blog post and offered a vision what customers can expect next. What Walmart Did To Improve The Experience Walmart set out on a mission a few years ago to focus on...
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Commentary: What Opportunities Exist For Tech Startups In Food Supply Chains?
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 4:19pm | 1039Since writing about the challenges ahead for food supply chains, I have been thinking about how perishable foods and other items are transported from one part of the world to another. What is the role for new technologies in global supply chains for perishable products? The question gnaws at me...
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Joint US-Mexican Truck Inspections Speed Up Agricultural Trade At Texas Border Crossing
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 5:02pm | 754Officials in Mexico and the United States are discussing expanding a joint pilot inspection program aimed at reducing wait times for agricultural products at the border The program has already been implemented at Port Laredo's Colombia Solidarity International Bridge, where wait times have been...
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Not Liking Them Apples: An Abundance Of Fruit And Shrinking Markets Spell Uncertainty For Washington Apple Growers
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 1:43pm | 866Washington state's 2019 apple harvest officially kicks off September 1 with a crop that is expected to be 20 percent larger than last year, but the increase in volume poses problems for farmers facing shrinking markets due to trade disputes. "It will be a challenge on the export front," said Mark...
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$12M Facility Part Of US-Mexico Efforts To Stop Growing Avocado Cargo Theft
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 1:41pm | 689United States and Mexican avocado growers and importers recently broke ground on a partnership facility called "Casa APEAM" in Uruapan, Mexico. The new $12 million facility will be a venture between the Association of Export Producers and Packers of Avocado from Mexico (APEAM), the Mexican...
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Mexican Table Grapes Deliver Late Bumper Crop, Fueling Higher Reefer Rates Along The Border
Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 10:48am | 682A colder than normal spring across northwestern Mexico meant the Mexican table grape export campaign suffered a delay of several weeks, spiking demand in June for reefer trucks out of Arizona and south Texas. Coupled with a record-breaking Hermosillo, Mexico-based table grape crop, this year's...
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The Movement Of Alligator Pears Part 2
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 11:37am | 77A look into the supply and demand of avocados. Image sourced from Pixabay The post Alligator Pears Part 2 appeared first on FreightWaves.