Month: September 2014

Ready Pac Welcomes Jay Ellis As Senior Vice President Of Sales

September 8, 2014 Ready Pac Foods, Inc.

Ready Pac Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce Jay Ellis as their Chief Sales Officer. In his role, Jay will be responsible for utilizing best practices to establish and meet sales targets and ensure the best possible service and effective communications with Ready Pac customers. Along with building and developing the Ready Pac sales team, Jay will manage and direct the execution of sales plans and initiatives across all sales channels. …

SE Regional Fruit & Vegetable Conference Planned For 2015

September 8, 2014 Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association

The SE Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference returns to Savannah this January 8-11, 2015. In 2014, the event hosted more than 3000 produce industry members. …

Former Lettuce Commission, Mushroom Council Leader Wade Whitfield Passes

September 5, 2014 Legacy.com

Wade passed away peacefully on Monday night, August 4, 2014 in Auburn, Calif. He was born on September 8, 1931 in Newellton, Louisiana to parents, Elmer and Stella Whitfield. …

Why Independent Fishers Are The Key To Seafood Sustainability

September 5, 2014 Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio and Sissel Waage, The Guardian

Earlier this summer, President Obama announced an ambitious new policy to combat illegal fishing with tougher requirements on seafood entering US markets. At present, 20%-30% of seafood is thought to be caught through illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing – and half may be mislabeled. At the same time, recent investigative reports from the Guardian have uncovered slave-like conditions on Thai fishing boats, raising a wellspring of concern from activist consumers, as well as multinational retailers accused of sourcing from supply chains that use slave labor. …

Ocean Acidification From Domestic To International

September 5, 2014 Mark Spalding, National Geographic

There has been a 30% increase in the acidity of the ocean since 1700, and we now expect that by 2100, it will have become a 100% increase. This constitutes a rate of change in ocean chemistry that is 10 times anything scientists can document over the last 50 million years. …