Randsland Brand Super Salad Kit and Kale Recalled

Randsland Farms Inc. is recalling Randsland brand Super Salad Kit and Randsland brand Kale from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described.

FruitSpec Closes $ 4M Investment From AgVentures & Hubei Forbon Technology for Its Yield Estimation Solution

September 25, 2019 FruitSpec

Yield estimations are mostly performed by farmers/workers using a visual “count” from the sampling of a few trees. Until now, the main technological challenge in providing early season fruit yield estimates is the inability to distinguish the green fruit from the green leaves in an image. FruitSpec solves this problem with its patented hyperspectral and computer vision algorithms.

Brighter Bites Names Top Donor Partners of 2018-19

September 25, 2019 Brighter Bites

Together these eight organizations helped donate produce that Brighter Bites distributed to 27,000 families in Houston, Dallas, Austin, New York City, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and Southwest Florida during the 2018-19 academic year.

IFTF Anticipates its 10th Year

September 24, 2019 HPP Exhibitions

IFTF is already in its 10th edition and growing, despite the rough waters in which the floriculture and many other industries have to peddle its way through.

St. Louis Startup With Tech to Restore Smell of Cut Flowers Inks Deal With Ohio Firm

The agreement has been inked with FLORALIFE, a South Carolina-based division of Ohio floriculture company Smithers-Oasis Co. Under the agreement, FLORALIFE will exclusively evaluate FloraScentials’ technology and have first rights to commercialize the startup’s intellectual property and products.