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Product Spotlight: ExtendAg’s Load Sequencer – The Only Fully Automated and Optimized Load Sequencing Solution for Raw Fruit and Veg Processors

July 21, 2025June 5, 2024 by John

A large industrial container is filled with tomatoes at a processing facility. A worker oversees the load sequencer as water is sprayed over the tomatoes. Conveyor belts are visible in the background.

As an Ag Operations leader at a busy produce processing plant, you oversee a yard teeming with trucks delivering loads of fresh, perishable produce. Your logistics dispatch team in the yard still relies on manual methods—whiteboards, clipboards, and walkie-talkies—to sequence hundreds of loads for processing every single day. As each day progresses, the yard becomes … Read more

Insights and Inspiration from ExtendAg’s Annual Team Meeting

January 22, 2025March 27, 2024 by Julie Ford

A group of people posing together like they're at a team meeting, some sitting and others standing, in front of a green "ExtendAg" banner.

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of bringing the ExtendAg team together for our annual in-person meeting. This year, we chose Lodi in the heart of California’s Central Valley, a region celebrated not just for its wine grapes but also for its diverse crops like almonds, walnuts, cherries, apples, olives, and various stone fruits. … Read more

ExtendAg: Leading the Future of the Fruit and Vegetable Crop Supply Chain

July 21, 2025March 5, 2024 by John

Aerial view of a tractor with trailers, key players in the fruit and vegetable supply chain, harvesting crops in a vast, orderly green agricultural field under a cloudy sky.

Author: John Roos, General Manager, ExtendAg As we continue our journey into 2024, I’d like to reflect on ExtendAg’s evolution and look ahead to the priorities that are on our radar this year and beyond. Since joining ExtendAg in early 2023, my focus has been on leveraging the strong foundation the company has established over … Read more

The Evolution of AgTech

January 21, 2025April 14, 2021 by Cassandra DesRochers

“If you follow AgTech news, not a single day goes by without yet another announcement from a startup or large tech company highlighting their groundbreaking innovative product that targets a key piece of the agricultural supply-chain. All this investment activity and technical innovation has even attracted the eyes of the big tech firms—such as Google … Read more

Data Democracy: Unlocking the Insights Hidden in Your Data

January 21, 2025April 14, 2021 by Cassandra DesRochers

A person types on a laptop, surrounded by digital icons and circuit patterns that suggest technology, data concepts, and the empowering idea of data democracy.

The ever-expanding volumes of data being generated from multiple internal and external sources is increasingly challenging most organizations. Figuring out how to analyze, interpret, and use the data to gain market advantage is a key challenge all businesses are facing. Data democratization means removing all the bottlenecks that restrict access to the data, providing an … Read more

Postmodern ERP: A Pragmatic Approach for Ag Processors

January 21, 2025April 14, 2021 by Cassandra DesRochers

Abstract image of two people with the text "ERP" and hexagons showcasing various icons, like graphs, gears, ag processors, and currency symbols, set against a blurred office backdrop.

Postmodern ERP: A Pragmatic Approach for Ag Processors Postmodern ERP is the latest iteration of Gartner’s thinking on the best strategies to be adopted when implementing enterprise-wide solutions. It’s a response to the inexorable rise of the monolithic single vendor, single solution approach that has resulted in a number of high-profile failures with massive hits … Read more

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