Produce

The PTI Technology Working Group recently completed updating the “PTI Case and Pallet Labeling Best Practices” documents. The new document includes a section on RPC labeling, and provides additional details to assist you in correctly printing PTI case labels. …

The Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market’s 26 distributors will host allied industry for an export seminar on November 16, 2011. The invitation-only event includes ocean freight companies and a score of other such international trade service providers and business and political leaders to discuss with Philadelphia’s produce wholesalers the opportunities and challenges involved in developing a fresh fruit and vegetable export program from this market. The 700,000 square-foot terminal market opened on June 5, 2011. …

The Idaho Potato Commission’s (IPC) retail superhero campaign came to life — literally — as industry professionals hobnobbed with a bobblehead-like Fearless Field Force at PMA Fresh Summit in Atlanta. …

Well, the banners are flying across the world famous Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, signaling to all the world that the produce industry is about to arrive in force in NYC! Walk, take a bike, ride a bus, grab a train, find a flight… but  find your way to The New York Produce Show and Conference. …

With The New York Produce Show and Conference fast approaching, there is, of course, a hubbub of activity. Chefs are being retained, academics and editors flown in from the far corners of the globe, buyers are making lists of priorities, exhibitors are shipping and students are preparing for the experience of their lives. In the midst of it all, the industry should really pause and give a hat tip to the Eastern Produce Council. …