Facility Operations

A Local Focus: Maine plant processes root crops for nearby customers

When its new vegetable processing facility opens this summer, Northern Girl will be closer to achieving its goal of pursuing year-round processing o... continue reading »

She Stepped Up

It’s hard to imagine a more wrenching set of circumstances than the ones that presented themselves to the Nucci and Ramsey families in 2005 an... continue reading »

The Big Show

My mindset in attending my first United Fresh show in 14 years is simple: act like a kid in a candy store.
The metaphor is admittedly a bit t... continue reading »

FSMA First Steps

As the Food Safety Modernization Act regulatory process grinds it way to completion months into the future, fresh-cut companies are considering what... continue reading »

Taking Fresh-Cut To a New Level

To think it all started with portobello mushrooms.
About 11 years ago, one of Baldor Specialty Foods’ foodservice customers wanted to k... continue reading »

Creating Consistency

Club Chef in Covington, Ky., is a member of the Castellini Group of Companies.
That’s a lot of Cs.
But there’s one more th... continue reading »

The Aim of R and D

 The research and development process for new fresh cut products involves hundreds of questions that boil down to two all-encompassing issues: ... continue reading »

Growing Consistency at Club Chef

Club Chef in Covington, Ky., is a member of the Castellini Group of Companies. That’s a lot of Cs. But there’s one more that applies... continue reading »

At 100-plus Years, Urschel Continues to Grow

To think it all began with a gooseberry snipper. It was 1910. Gooseberries were big, being commercially grown in northern Indiana and southern Mic... continue reading »

Hard Truth About Software

The scene of a worker walking around a fresh-cut facility with a clipboard, pencil and furrowed brow — all in the name of gaining a real-time ... continue reading »