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From Bad to Worse to Better: How Today’s State of Supply Chains Present Bright Future

Here’s how technology, visibility and the drive to overturn the labor shortage help improve the current state of the supply chain.

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What More Disruptions will 3PLs See in 2022?

After a couple of turbulent years in the cold supply chain, 3PLs plan for a continued rocky 2022.

A Guide to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

A Guide to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

If you aren’t moving toward a sustainable supply chain, you’ll fall behind. Today’s top firms are embracing lighter, safer plastic pallets and “green” initiatives.

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SunOpta Mobilizes Multi-ERP Operation to Boost Inventory Visibility

SunOpta selected RFgen to implement an ERP system throughout its operations—from raw materials to manufacturing to inventory management to order fulfillment—in 10 facilities.

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Food Traceability in Grains Advances

The Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance pursues a new program increasing food traceability for the industry. Businesses and consumer will get significant detail in information on participating products.

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Opportunities and Challenges with Sourcing in Cannabis Industry

Look at the cannabis industry as an example of both how one can pivot in times of adversity as well as create a model for the future.

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JourneyFoods Explores the Future of Food

A food technology company launches a new program aimed to bring a variety of schools to drive innovation in the future of the food industry.

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Preventing Food Contamination in the Agricultural Industry

Improving food safety isn’t just a matter of consumer protection — it’s also a means for increasing producer efficiency and mitigating financial risk.

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Blockchain and the Agricultural Supply Chain: Solving Old Issues with New Technology

Data about assets is becoming an asset itself, increasingly informing how companies operate and how consumers choose what products they want to buy.

A Guide to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

A Guide to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

If you aren’t moving toward a sustainable supply chain, you’ll fall behind. Today’s top firms are embracing lighter, safer plastic pallets and “green” initiatives.

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Robotics Acquisition Empowers Farmers and Growers with Autonomous Driving Technology

This acquisition enables an all-in-one solution to maximize accuracy and productivity on the farm.

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Can Controlled Environment Agriculture Help Farmers Hit by Climate Crises?

With traditional farming under siege from increasing climate crises, the agricultural industry needs to develop new ways to increase resiliency through a carefully controlled indoor environment.

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Reimagining Supply Chains to Reduce Food Waste and Food Loss

Through bicycles, “agriambulances” and tuk tuks, smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs found creative ways to access markets despite movement restrictions.

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Non-Profit Foundation Aims to Reduce Food Waste and Fight Food Insecurity

The goal is to improve the global food supply chain’s carbon imprint, reimagine industry processes that have historically led to food waste and quickly redirect food to be distributed to communities around the world.

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China’s Digitalization of Food Supply Chains Underscores What Comes Next

The solution to further modernize Chinese food supply chains entails spiderweb of digital platforms competing to bring foods directly to consumers.

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Businesses and Industries Wrestle with the Worst Supply Chain Bottlenecks to Date

Rapidly rising input costs and product shortages are hitting agriculture particularly hard, as ag commodity prices have flattened and inflation compresses margins.

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L.I.N.K. | Lessons from China in Food Sourcing

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel speaks with Xavier Naville, author of the Lettuce Diaries, to learn from his experience working in China in agriculture. He details how we can attribute lessons he learned there to Western industries.

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Incorporate Predictive Software into Day-to-Day Farming Operations

Here is why you should incorporate predicting software into your dairy or farming business.

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Warehouse Automation: Unlocking the Full Potential of Vertical Farming

Supply chain automation technology can provide vertical farming operations a scalable, adaptable, cost-effective solution for low-footprint vertically stacked installations.

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SAP Allows for Emissions Compliance Through Entire Product Lifecycle

SAP is growing the ability of supply chain companies and manufacturers to track the emissions of their products through their entire lifecycle. The new product allows for greater compliance and consumer transparency towards consumers.

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Net Zero Blockchain Network Tracks Emissions Compliance

TraceCarbon provides a standardized, secure and reliable record of carbon emissions and offsets that companies can trace back to the source for their own records, as well as for reporting purposes to maximize transparency.

A Guide to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

A Guide to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

If you aren’t moving toward a sustainable supply chain, you’ll fall behind. Today’s top firms are embracing lighter, safer plastic pallets and “green” initiatives.

Dusan Kostic

Transformational Leadership: A Call to Action for Procurement Executives

The next greatest challenge is for suppliers to shift their mindsets so they can achieve long-term success for their companies, humanity and the planet.

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CropX Expands Capability with Newest Acquisition

CropX enters its third acquisition in 18 months, targeting the European market and growing intelligence capabilities.

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3 Best Practices for Shipping Produce

Many consumers opt for organic, locally grown produce, and supply chain companies must adapt to an already precarious process.

Dusan Kostic

Cargill and Continental Grain Company to Acquire Sanderson Farms for $203 per Share

Upon completion of the transaction, the companies will combine Sanderson Farms with Wayne Farms to form a new, privately held poultry business.

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3 Ways Cannabis Extraction Can Cut Costs

Here's how filtration can help save money in the extraction process for cannabis oils:

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Rising Food Import Prices Highlight Need to Source Domestically

Buying American means more jobs in manufacturing, but possibly losses in others like transportation, packaging and warehousing. The key to avoiding this is to have the complete supply chain functioning domestically.

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Striving for Sustainability in Global Food Systems

GRI's Sector Program is designed to provide the global best practice for transparency within sectors, helping organizations meet stakeholder expectations for comprehensive and comparable sustainability reporting.

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How COVID-19 Highlighted Problems with U.S. Food Supply Chain

As the food supply chain became more globalized in recent years, the imbalance caused by the pandemic shone a direct light on the immediate need to correct this antiquated process.

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Lewis & Clark AgriFood Push Innovative Agriculture Forward

The latest funding round for Lewis & Clark AgriFood raises $257 million for investment in innovative agriculture.

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3 Lessons Agricultural Industry Can Take From the Pandemic

These three practices can offer major advantages during normal operations while also increasing durability up and down the supply chain in times of crisis.

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Sustainable Food Chains Matter: Obtaining Global Vision

Michele Bruni, chief commercial officer from InspiraFarms, explains why a lack of global vision presents challenges around sourcing, growing, packaging and more.