Americold (www.americold.com), the global leader in temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics to the food industry, announced today that it has concluded the purchase of the temperature-controlled storage facility at 1239 Oakleigh Drive, East Point, GA, bolstering the company’s Georgia-based facility network to 15 and controlling more than 90 million cubic feet of capacity. …
In a lab at Washington State University, 45-year-old horticulture researcher Amit Dhingra has dedicated much of the last decade to the shapely fruit. Building off relationships with pear growers who say their businesses are held back by a lack of scientific understanding of their product, Dhingra has mapped the pear genome, bred new trees, and even found a way to ripen the notoriously stiff fruit. …
NatureSweet, Ltd.®, a vertically integrated greenhouse grower of premium fresh tomatoes that controls every step of production from seed to shelf, announced a partnership with Ganfer, one of the largest greenhouse vegetable producers in North America, which will add more than 100 hectares of greenhouses to NatureSweet’s production over the next three years. …
Just a few years ago, a number of Okanagan farmers were clambering to get away from B.C. Tree Fruits, ringing alarm bells about its shaky future. Now the packinghouse, which includes operations in Lake Country, has regained the confidence of its growers and is on such a solid footing that it’s in the enviable position of picking and choosing who it will form bonds with.
Limoneira Company announced today that it will go back to the future by adding its oranges and specialty citrus varieties to its ONE WORLD OF CITRUS™ model. …
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