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