“Neovation is a specialized traceability system created to aid clients such as local producers and packers,” said Neova President Jonathan Cyr. “Our system offers enterprise and manufacturing resource planning as well as customer relationship management. Neova covers all your needs including financials, production and warehousing.”

Founded in 2003, Axsun has grown to become one of Canada’s larger cross border intermodal providers. Axsun provides intermodal full loads and less than truckloads (LTL) between Canada, the United States and Mexico through a single clearance gateway program.

Meg Miller has been promoted from manager to director of Produce Marketing Association's public relations activities, according to an Aug. 6 press release issued by the association.

Food bloggers are hungry for Idaho potatoes.

These passionate home cooks have been whipping up spud-centered creations in an assortment of videos and recipes spanning the web. The Idaho Potato Commission is collecting these original Idaho potato posts and serving them up in a new section on its website, The Potato Blog Squad.

Picture, if you will, a clear plastic container, similar to a clamshell but in the approximate shape and size of a 12-ouce drink, can or water bottle, filled with grapes or other fruit, and offered for sale in a vending machine. That describes an innovative new package concept being offered by F-D-S Manufacturing Co. in Pomona, CA.

Green Tree International, which has offices in Wenatchee, WA, is already moving onions into the pipeline. “We’re harvesting over-winters right now,” Sales Associate Shea Nanto told The Produce News.