Tag: produce blueprints

As the start of 2024 races into focus, this is both a season of thanksgiving for what’s been accomplished and a season of hope for what’s to come.

When fresh product arrives at destination warm, some predictable and unpleasant things tend to happen: first, the receiver objects.

Water shortages are not just a concern for agriculture or the Western states. Twenty-five countries, containing a quarter of the world’s population, face extremely high water stress, according to the World Resources Institute.

The water woes of the Western states have attracted a great deal of attention, but Texas faces similar issues.

The Yuma Valley, near the border between Arizona and California, and the Imperial Valley, in the southernmost part of the state, are also key producers of fruits and vegetables.

Outsiders sometimes think that California’s Salinas Valley—which touts itself, with some justice, as the nation’s salad bowl—is part of the Central Valley, but that’s not the case.

After the water projects that divert rainfall and snowpack, the second major source of agricultural water in the West comes from underground.

The ag sector in California and Arizona relies on two main sources for its water supply, and the first is gigantic state and federal projects

It sounds familiar: California agriculture praying for rain after two decades of drought, then getting more—much, much more—than it asked for.

The Problem: Two bad pallets, eighteen good pallets. The Key Point: Shippers do not promise each pallet will meet good arrival standards.