Tag: produce blueprints

Fraud comes in many sizes, flavors, and colors.

Fraud is alive and well in the world of commerce, and in the fresh produce industry. But is it rising or falling?

One of the “newer” players in the berry industry is S. Katzman Produce, Inc., a four generation-strong family business based at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx, NY.

Always Fresh Farms, LLC is a grower, marketer, and shipper of blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries from the United States, Latin America, and Canada.

Self-described as exclusively strawberry people, Salinas, CA-based Blazer Wilkinson, LP sources about 98 percent of its volume from its own U.S. farms—Florida in the winter and Oxnard, Santa Maria, and Salinas during the rest of the year—with the remainder counter-seasonal production from Central Mexico.

At close to 100 years old, Plant City, FL-based Wish Farms is one of the longest-established and largest berry businesses in one of the U.S.’s two key production regions for the category.

Technology changes quickly. With the many tools available, it can be a daunting task to just keep up with all the apps as well as dozens or hundreds of daily texts, emails, and posts.

Sam Maglio, president of Maglio Companies of Milwaukee, WI, says his company’s role in the produce industry is to provide solutions to all the problems facing its customers and their consumers. Newly created or adapted technologies solve many of these difficulties.

In an industry where a handshake (or elbow bump) can still seal the deal, is technology a spoiler or a boon?

There’s no disputing the growth and opportunity of the greenhouse industry, but it has two distinct sides of the same coin: international and hyper-local.