In the produce industry, there are usually only three reasons to consider an increase in the net cost of doing business. Change happens, the business evolves, and not all business changes cost more. But when changes must be made, accompanying costs are never welcome unless there are some pretty good underlying reasons. Here then, are [...]
The way Becky Bazabal describes it, her job entails working with users to design software — which pretty much means she writes blueprints for developers. Becky is currently redesigning our CropTracTM application, which is an integral part of the suite of solutions offered by TRUETRAC. That being said, let’s just go ahead and analyze this [...]
Late last month, The California Farm Bureau Federation’s (CFBF) weekly newspaper, AgAlert, came out with an informed editorial about how we as an industry should be reacting to public demands for a change in our agricultural practices and in particular, the management of resources. In recent years, consumers have displayed a growing awareness — and [...]
It’s been a full year since President Obama signed into law the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in ceremonies that touted the legislation as the most sweeping reform of food safety laws since 1938. Put simply, the new law is intended to ensure the safety of food in the United States by shifting the focus [...]
In the long march toward implementation of the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI), several documents have been updated by the initiative’s sponsor organizations (United Fresh, CPMA, GS1, and PMA), which taken as a whole, supplement previous milestones and highlight some important details coming our way. Since there is no “one size fits all” in the fresh [...]
When shopping for a vendor to provide your company with a traceability system that meets the standards of the Produce Traceability Initiative and does so in a hands-on, responsible and reliable manner, it’s important that you do the homework ahead of time. Blindly grabbing at the first vendor who turns up at your corporate doorstep [...]
