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The pandemic trend on increased packaging
The trend toward increased packaging continued during the pandemic. Nick Maglio, director of marketing for ProEx Food, LLC of Milwaukee,...
Packaging: The clamshell and visibility
Probably no item exemplifies the dilemmas surrounding produce packaging more than the clear plastic clamshell, in which the greatest portion...
Packaging: ‘Widely Recyclable’ often isn’t
Sadly, recyclable packaging products aren’t always, or often, recycled. Shannon Boase, director of new market development for CKF Inc. in...
Packaging: Thinking Beyond the Box
An update on sustainable, biodegradable, and recyclable packaging I came across the perfect package 35 years ago. During a trip...
All About Drones: Improving food safety
Drones can be used in detecting pathogens for food safety. Nanoreagents, LLC, based in Tampa, FL, is flying drones with...
All About Drones: Data analysis
Analyzing data from drones is very time-consuming and requires specific, high-level knowledge of software, even statistics. “Data analysis is followed...
All About Drones: Data collection
As with several strawberry growers, Olga Walsh, research associate professor at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the...
All About Drones: The future is now
Swarms of drones will be commonplace in orchards and fields one day. So says Christian Nansen, associate professor in the...
All About Drones: High-tech help for growers
Founded in 2000, Mac’s Creek Winery & Brewery in Nebraska suffered a devastating loss in 2013 when nearly all of...
COVID Tech: The cost of investment
Coastline Family Farms BB #:141488 in Salinas, CA, spent over $20,000 upgrading technology infrastructure and equipment during the pandemic. Employees...
COVID Tech: Investing in the long run
Even with all the advantages demonstrated by new technologies, no one expects this pandemic situation to last forever. Yet both...
COVID Tech: Integrating new tools
2020 COVID hinderances such as stay-at-home orders, travel restrictions, and limitations on face-to-face interactions haven’t just led to the more...
COVID Tech: Finding new best practices
Businesses may have scrambled at the onset of the coronavirus and the shutdown that followed, but the months since have...
FMI’s report shows food retail industry’s strong performance in 2020
ARLINGTON, Va.- The annual The Food Retailing Industry Speaks (Speaks) report, released today by FMI—The Food Industry Association BB #:162464,...
Don’t get overwhelmed managing the digital world
Technology changes quickly. With the many tools available, it can be a daunting task to just keep up with all...
Digital solutions can’t replace business connections
Sam Maglio, president of Maglio Companies of Milwaukee, WI, BB #:105281 says his company’s role in the produce industry is...
Harnessing technology in a relationship industry
In an industry where a handshake (or elbow bump) can still seal the deal, is technology a spoiler or a...
The technology driving RDC innovation
Technology doesn’t stay on the cutting edge by standing still, and companies of all sizes have learned this lesson the...
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