Facility Operations
Agriculture robotics event coming to Fresno in 2022
FIRA USA, an agriculture robotics event, is coming to Fresno, California, in October 2022. The event is designed to bring together specialty crop g... continue reading »
Square Roots continues Midwest expansion
Square Roots, a technology company in indoor farming, and Gordon Food Service, one of the largest food distributors in North America, have opened a ne... continue reading »
Food safety gets smarter
Driven by ever-strict safety regulations and the need for traceability across the supply chain, food manufacturers are increasingly turning to inspect... continue reading »
Pure Green Farms takes indoor-outdoor approach to leafy greens
Another year passes, and with it, a steady stream of news about greenhouses and other controlled environment agriculture (CEA) operations opening in t... continue reading »
Labor shortages at root of shipping, trucking mandates further issues
On Jan. 6, 2022, there were a record 105 shipping vessels anchored or loitering off the coast of Southern California waiting for openings to dock at t... continue reading »
Solutions to cleaning drain valves
Drain valves comprise up to 20% of all valves in a typical processing plant. However, cleaning them is costly, difficult and time-consuming due to lon... continue reading »
Ocean Mist Farms names director of farming
Ocean Mist Farms, a fourth-generation grower-shipper located in Castroville, California, has promoted Bobby Bellew to director of farming. In his new ... continue reading »
Future Crops addresses yield-cost-quality equation
A new Dutch-Israeli venture will make it possible to grow high-quality herbs and leafy greens without relying directly on Mother Nature. Agri-tech ... continue reading »
Addressing labor challenges through automation, robotics
Almost from the moment robots first appeared in factories in the 1960s, the immediate reaction among factory workers was a fear that automation would ... continue reading »
Traceability rule changes looming with FSMA 204
In September 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a 199-page Proposed Rule for Record Keeping for Food Traceability as part of t... continue reading »
