HarvestMark stickers on SunAmerica Imports’ Guatemalan melons.

SunAmerica Imports LLC, a melon shipper based

Weather

Yuma, AZ — Daytime temperatures should remain in the mid- to upper 80s through March 24, then ease into the upper 70s through March 27. Overnight lows were expected to remain in the low to mid-50s through March 24, and then ease into the upper 40s. There was no threat of rain in the near-term forecast.

A worker picks up a load of Astin Farms strawberries at the company’s packinghouse in Plant City, FL. (Photo by Chip Carter)

Roger Schroder of Stater Bros. Markets and Ryan Fukuda of Avacados From Mexico at the FPFC Family Day at the Races, which took place March 10 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, CA.

Village Farms’ GATES technology incorporates an enclosed and totally contained and controlled greenhouse environment concept. Combine that with the company’s climate-management assistance program, or CMAP, a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week monitoring system that utilizes advanced sensors and control algorithms, all of which can be controlled remotely, and you have the highest possible greenhouse technology to date.

By Tim Linden | 1/27/2012
More supermarkets are using independent nutritional rating systems on shelf tags, which could bode well for increased consumption of fresh produce.