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Trying To Make Sense Of A DIM Situation

New dimensional weight charges will affect most food and beverage shippers.

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Data Standardization Moves Forward For The Food Supply Chain

GS1 prepares for major release of Global Data Synchronization Network.

The GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network ensures uniform data standards throughout the food supply chain.

Kraft Heinz To Slash 2,500 Jobs In North America

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U.S. Farms Struggle To Find Workers

Overall in the U.S., the decline in workers is reducing fruit and vegetable production by 9.5 percent, or $3.1 billion, a year, according to a recently published analysis of government data by the Partnership for a New American Economy.

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Cyclospora Infection Afflicts 457 People In 29 States

The CDC update of 457 ill persons with confirmed Cyclospora infection from 29 states is 73 more people and two additional states since the previous CDC update one week ago.

Reported U.S. cases of laboratory-confirmed, domestically acquired cyclosporiasis in persons with onset of illness since May 1, 2015.

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Infor To Acquire GT Nexus For $675 Million

Approximately 25,000 businesses rely on GT Nexus, including six of the top 10 logistics service providers and 30 global financial institutions, all managing more than $100 billion in goods each year using its cloud-based business network.

Alibaba Invests $4.5 Billion In Logistics

The deal is the latest in a wave of big spending in China by Alibaba and its rivals as they compete to hook up China’s masses of smartphone users with services ranging from food delivery to movie ticketing to hitching rides.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Tacoma And Seattle Ports Launch Northwest Seaport Alliance

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)

The Northwest Seaport Alliance unifies the two ports’ marine cargo terminal investments, operations, planning and marketing to strengthen the Puget Sound gateway and attract more marine cargo to the region.

Failed US Foods Merger Costs Sysco $430 Million

Chief Executive Bill DeLaney said Monday that after a year-and-a-half of investing time and money into integration efforts for that planned deal, Sysco has shifted its focus to smaller acquisitions, internal cost-cutting and updating its technology.

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How The FDA Trans Fat Ban Will Complicate The Food Supply Chain

The FDA’s decision has the potential to significantly impact the business and legal needs of food manufacturers, suppliers and producers all along the supply chain.

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Electrification

Quiet Revolution: U.S. Farms Rapidly Adopt Self Driving Tractors And Data Gathering Technology

Data-centric companies with Silicon Valley pedigrees, like 2 1/2-year-old Granular and aerial surveillance startup DroneDeploy, that have the ability to tap into all this machinery and run farms as efficiently as Google runs its data centers.

John Deere has been selling self-driving tractors for 15 years.

U.S. Restaurant Chains And Retailers Support ‘Fair Foods Program’ To Help Farmworkers

Along with the penny premium per pound for tomatoes, growers must have zero tolerance for forced labor, child labor, and sexual harassment.

The population of towns like Immokalee, Fla., swells every winter when migrants and their families move here looking for work.

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