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Produce ads decline as spring items dominate promotions
3+ week, 2+ day ago (276+ words) Ad numbers decreased this week, as is typical following the St. Patrick's Day promotional period. Despite this, retailers continued to feature a wide range of seasonal produce, including asparagus, lettuce, cucumbers, mushrooms, cabbage, and avocados. Citrus remained prominent, with lemons…...
Fresh produce presentation, diversity, convenience, and quality in American style
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (163+ words) Hortidaily Fresh produce often shows what a supermarket stands for. At Dave's Fresh Market in America, the assortment is not only presented but literally magnified. In the chain's ten stores in Rhode Island, the company presents a fresh produce department…...
Fresh-cut vegetable convenience shown in Orlando
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (206+ words) "We're excited about the possibilities that our fresh-cut products bring to our customers," said Cheryl Hoefs, SVP of sales & marketing at Lipman Family Farms. "From our coast-to-coast consistency to packaging innovation, our fresh-cut line is a real showcase for the…...
Vertical farming as an industrial project that goes beyond the logic of fashion
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (226+ words) Hortidaily In 2016, Veetaste began experimenting with vertical farming for the indoor production of microgreens through controlled-cycle systems After an operational suspension in 2020, necessary to analyse the limits of the first phase and rebuild the business model on a more solid…...
Creating reliable path planning for greenhouse robots
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (207+ words) Hortidaily To address perception and navigation challenges in precision agriculture caused by GPS signal loss and weakly structured environments in greenhouses, this study proposes an integrated framework for real-time semantic reconstruction and path planning This framework comprises three core components:…...