Spice up your vegetables with lemons
Spice up your vegetables with lemons
While the headline typically refers to a cooking tip, in this instance it is a strategic idea for transportation efficiency.
Limoneira is touting its Yuma facility as a great place to pick up lemons to balance out a vegetable load.Limoneira Co., which is headquartered in Santa Paula, CA, also ships from its Yuma, AZ, packing and warehouse facility 12 months of the year. Lemons grown on the firm’s 1,300 acres in Arizona with production peaking in the late summer to fall period. During this time of year and four the next four to five months, Yuma is also a hotbed of vegetable production. Consequently, Limoneira is touting its Yuma facility as a great place to pick up lemons to balance out a vegetable load.
“It’s all about helping to reduce distribution center costs,” said John Chamberlain, vice president of marketing for the citrus-centric firm.
He explained that many retailers are loading trucks on a daily basis in the Yuma area during the fall and winter months. Lemons, of course, are also a produce department staple. Chamberlain said it makes great sense to combine a load and reduce the hours of transit time, as well as overall transportation costs for the receiver. Without the potential pickup in Yuma, a truck might have to run deep into California to pick up lemons before turning around and heading back East.
Limoneira Co. is a 120-year-old international agribusiness firm headquartered in Santa Paula. In recent years it has grown to become one of the premier integrated agribusinesses in the world with approximately 10,000 acres of rich agricultural lands, real estate properties and water rights in California and Arizona. The company is a leading producer of lemons, avocados, oranges, and specialty citrus. It grows in all three California-Arizona citrus districts.
