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Inside Longo’s: Carving its niche

While freshness and quality may be at the core of Longo’s tenets, the company ranks highly on most retail assessments....

4 years ago 4 minute read

Inside Longo’s: Focus on Fresh

Throughout its history, Longo Brothers Fruit Market Inc. BB #:154544 Vaughan, ON, has maintained a focus on fresh and high-quality...

4 years ago 3 minute read

Inside Longo’s: Chain in transition

In 1956, three Italian immigrant brothers, Tommy, Joe, and Gus Longo, opened Broadway Fruit Market, a 1,500-square-foot shop at the...

4 years ago 2 minute read

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...

4 years ago 2 minute read

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...

4 years ago 3 minute read

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...

4 years ago 2 minute read

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...

4 years ago 4 minute read

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...

4 years ago 4 minute read

Cannabis: The path to legalization

In the last fifty years, there has been increasing movement toward the legalization of cannabis, starting with a 1972 measure...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Cannabis: The view from the North

Canada legalized cannabis in October 2018. As a result, says a source knowledgeable about Canadian agriculture, “there was a real...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Cannabis: Florida takes the challenge

In Florida, hemp has attracted a great deal of attention among growers. The state of Florida began to issue licenses...

4 years ago 3 minute read

Cannabis: The American Scene

Hemp in the United States, whether grown for biomass or cannabis derivatives, has had a wild ride in recent years....

4 years ago 3 minute read

Cannabis: Illusory pot of gold or the crop of the future?

Cannabis and hemp both come from the same plant. As its legalization continues to spread from state to state, fruit...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Trading Assistance: Late trucks and financial damages

The Problem Establishing financial damages resulting from a late truck. The Key Point Late claims require proof of failure to...

4 years ago 4 minute read

A broken seal and food safety concerns

Resting easy on the carrier’s dime Absolutes often sound good. For example, a company that states it has “a zero-tolerance...

4 years ago 7 minute read

Supply Chain: Responding to the next disruption

The rapid cascade of challenges at the outset of the pandemic last year decimated the supply chain capabilities of organizations...

4 years ago 5 minute read

Supply Chain: Agility will be mandatory during the next disruption

Until 2020, it could be argued that agility was a valuable capability that led to healthier margins, higher in-stock availability...

4 years ago 4 minute read

Supply Chain: Readiness for the next disruption

Over the last twelve months, supply chains of all types have been challenged by the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been...

4 years ago 5 minute read

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