The heat continues across the East. While record high temperatures are not forecast, numerous record high minimum (overnight) temperatures are likely through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

As a manager, the opportunity to delegate projects and tasks to your teammates might feel like a blessing or a curse.

It’s easy to see how delegation can go wrong in so many ways.

As a leadership coach, I’ve seen too many leaders, especially newer managers, employ a “dump and run” style of delegation where they simply want to get the work off of their plate. They dump it on a teammate without thinking it through or providing clarity about the end goal. This leaves people feeling confused, abused, undervalued and disengaged.

Continental Fresh LLC's Viewpoint series has won a Bronze Telly Award for editing.

Holt Logistics Corp. and its Holt family-owned affiliates continue to set the standard for port operators through investments in facilities in the Philadelphia area. 

Christian Holt told The Produce News that 2023 was a productive year for the Philadelphia port community highlighted by the deepening of the channel to 42 feet last June. A subsequent project that was scheduled for completion in June 2024 will further deepen the channel to 45 feet. 

The Southeast Produce Council’s STEP-UPP Retail Class set out on its summer tour last month, taking participants into the field and on plant tours to gain hands-on experience in how to partner with growers more effectively. STEP-UPP, which is an acronym for Southeast Training Education Program for Upcoming Produce Professionals, is SEPC’s flagship program giving retail and foodservice produce professionals a greater understanding of the industry through an emphasis on strategic orientation, personal leadership, and hands-on field experience.

The American Floral Endowment has a long history of honoring industry champions through memorial tributes. These tributes allow friends and family to contribute to AFE to forever honor and recognize, in a lasting way, the successes, achievements and legacy of fallen friends and family.