Michelle Broom has resigned as president of the Ontario Produce Marketing Association, effective Feb. 11, 2022.

Over the last three years, Broom has been instrumental in supporting and executing the board’s strategic direction and she has implemented many new initiatives to ensure its continued growth and success as an association. Broom’s inspiring leadership has left a lasting impression on our organization, membership and community.

Walmart announced plans to acquire Foodmaestro, a Toronto-based digital start-up that will offer customers more choice, transparency and personalized content when they shop online.

Foodmaestro is a data platform serving retailers and consumer package goods companies across Europe and North America with strong capability to turn substantial amounts of data into usable attributes. The platform delivers transparency and rich digital experiences for customers focused on health and diet and offers customized content activation, such as meal planning.

With the West Mexico vegetable deal just starting to get underway and the transition from fall production in full swing, Nogales, AZ-based Divine Flavor was interested in focusing the limelight on its employees, including its frontline workers in the field.

Michael DuPuis, quality assurance and public relations coordinator for the 15-year-old firm with even deeper roots, said “it all starts with the workers. We do anything we can to improve the lives of our workers.”

Atlanta is known as an exciting and vibrant city that offers people a great quality of life, lots of things to do, world-famous restaurants, and the World Series champion Atlanta Braves, but it also plays a vital role in terms of produce.

Big Y, one of New England’s largest independently owned supermarket chains, is improving its fleet logistics with new trailers equipped with Carrier Transicold X4 7300 refrigeration units and the eSolutions platform for remote monitoring and control. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corp., a leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions.

Rio Rico, AZ — Strike up a conversation with any produce shipper or broker in the Nogales area, and inevitably the topic of freight rates will arise. It’s hard to ignore when a load to the Northeast costs nearly twice as much as it had two years ago.

That might bode well for a transportation provider like Sherman Trucking, here, but the heavy demand for services brings challenges of its own.