Food shipment volumes across restaurants and hotels are still down, while on-demand food delivery volumes have gone up during this pandemic.
Farms of major row crops like tomatoes or potatoes are usually highly mechanized and could escape the wrath of COVID-19.
“There’s a growing understanding of the importance of them, the agility of them and how they help service communities.”
The food supply chain is in peril as meat plants close and truck drivers struggle to find good-paying freight amid coronavirus.
The closing of a Smithfield Foods hog-processing plant in South Dakota cut off 100 daily semi-truck loads of animals to the facility. With few other plants available, farmers may end up destroying tens of thousands of animals that cannot be marketed for food.
Sysco said it has begun providing logistics services to retail grocery customers; supplying products to retail grocery customers; enabling small restaurants to start up home delivery operations and online order pick-up service; and distributing cleaning supplies to keep kitchens safe and virus-free.
While USDA and FDA staff and resources become constrained by the coronavirus, the agencies continue to work with industry to protect the health of the food supply chain.
Ben Thrower explores the U.S. food chain is complex, but provides a cornucopia of food choices in almost unlimited supply.
For many people around the world, celebrating the holidays involves sharing food with family and friends. As we approach the holidays to celebrate the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, it occurred to me that it would be good to spend some time examining what startups are doing to try to solve the […]
Consumers want more information about their food – where does it come from, was it ethically sourced, was it shipped in a safe and sanitary manner, etc. Ben Thrower provides information about how this trend is impacting food companies, growers and consumers.
Brian Aoaeh writes about ongoing efforts to fight food waste by improving food supply chains.
Since writing about the challenges ahead for food supply chains, I have been thinking about how perishable foods and other items are transported from one part of the world to another. What is the role for new technologies in global supply chains for perishable products? The question gnaws at me each time I am in […]
The 2019 Chicken Sandwich Wars may have impacted the Popeyes supply chain.
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and blockchain is becoming more mainstream. Information about a new study of DLT provides details.
For blockchain to improve visibility and accountability within food supply chains, its underlying data needs to be in order.
Brian Aoaeh writes about changes that need to be made to the food supply chain to deter food waste and food loss.
With this acquistion, TeleSense will help drive the automation of the grain supply chain and expand its footprint across Europe.
Cocoa farming in Africa witnesses a lot of forced and child labor, which can be eliminated if the stakeholders within chocolate supply chains can have transparency on end-to-end operations.
