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What’s contributing to freight market volatility chaos?
It’s no secret the freight industry is highly cyclical. “Every year or two there is a recession and then there’s a spike, specifically in the freight industry,” said Margie Hamlin, head of operations and accounts at Leaf…
Retail sector grapples with shifting consumer behavior
It is normal for consumers to take a shopping break after the winter holidays, leading to lower retail volumes during the first quarter of the new year. This year, however, shoppers are weathering more than just the typical…
How Brooklyn’s Michelin-Starred Clover Hill Makes Spring Rolls Wrapped With Fluke
Preparing the cured fluke takes two days At Brooklyn’s Clover Hill, creativity is to be expected, especially with a chef like Charlie Mitchell. Mitchell, who honed his skills working at some of NYC’s top restaurants, delivers…
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Saffron
Sophia Pappas The world’s most expensive spice can be an everyday ingredient — if you know how to use it “Our biggest challenge is to get people to use it,” Ethan Frisch, the co-founder and co-owner of the spice company…
Equipping Your Team for Smarter Operations
By Tara D. Holwegner, Intellectual Property (IP) Manager at Life Cycle Engineering By integrating training and change management, you can better prepare teams to support business goals in an increasingly digitized…
Does wheat market recovery present opportunity to sell?
Farmers Weekly A bounce-back in wheat prices this week has prompted suggestions that the market may have bottomed out, though analysts suggest the outlook is still fundamentally bearish. The Farmers Weekly spot ex-farm feed…
Jump in profits for Openfield Agriculture
Farmers Weekly Profits at farmer-owned co-operative Openfield Agriculture have trebled, with soaring global feed and fertiliser prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the main explanation. Turnover increased by 30% to…
Daily Infographic: Tips for trucker safety
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Will autonomous trucks need ELDs? No — well, maybe
This is part of a FreightWaves series on the electronic logging device mandate. Federal regulators began enforcing the mandate on April 1, 2018. Read more from this series here. Driverless trucks, which may or may not be the…
Arable budgeting tool predicts profit drop for this harvest
Farmers Weekly Higher working capital requirements, lower commodity prices and the fall in the value of basic payments mean net margins for harvest 2023 could be less than 50% of last year’s level. “Arable producers are…
