How do millions of cut mums make it from remote greenhouses in Colombia to your neighborhood store? Quick answer: Field to flight to wholesaler to retailer to you.
This linking, linear chain has been in place since the first shipment of Colombian flowers arrived on U.S. shores 50 years ago. And although growing and cutting flowers is labor intensive, high-tech upgrades, like start-to-finish scanning systems, are being adopted by ambitious growers.
New technology allows growers like Santiago Cock-Rada of Uniflor Colombia in the Rionegro region to quicken the pace between orders in and boxes of flowers out.
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