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JUNE - JULY

June 19-20
June 19

Winter Haven Farmers’ Market
Small Farms Dairy Conference

Enjoy the sunshine and get fresh This two-day conference being held in Citra is for people who own
or work for a small (one to 50) animal dairy, or are considering
produce! Head down to the
farmers’ market, held weekly
investing their time and resources in this business. The program
on Thursdays, from 8-5 p.m. includes a visit to a dairy farm whose owners create and sell their
own artisan cheeses, and will cover many important management
For more information, contact
Audrey McIntosh at (863) topics for dairy cattle and goat farming. For more information or
291-5870.
to register, visit http://smallfarms.ifas.ul.edu/.

June 15-21
June 20-21

FCA Annual Convention
FNGLA Annual Convention

Join the Florida Cattlemen’s FNGLA's Annual Convention is a time each year for FNGLA
Association for their annual members and industry friends to celebrate the past year of
convention at the Marriott Beach success while welcoming FNGLA's new leadership taking

Resort, Golf Club and Spa in ofice. It is also the venue for FNGLA's Annual Meeting and the
Marco Island, Florida. For platform for presenting FNGLA's Industry Award Winners. This
more information, visit www. year’s convention will be held at Marriott Sawgrass at Ponte

loridacattlemen.org.
Vedra Beach. For more information, visit ww.fnga.org.
June 25
EVENT PREVIEW: August 1-2
HERE'S A GLIMPSE OF
Haines City Farmers’ Market
Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Conference
July 4
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN

Stop by Railroad Park in HAPPY Online registration for this year’s Small Farms and Alternative YOUR AG COMMUNITY.
downtown Haines City and check Enterprises Conference is open now. Join the UF/IFAS
out all the great local produce and Extension and Florida A&M University College of Agriculture To view more events like the ones
INDEPENDENCE you see here, visit our website at
products available, held every and Food Sciences at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee.
Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information or to register, go to http://www. www.FloridaAgNews.com
For more information, call (863) DAY!
conference.ifas.ul.edu/smallfarms/index.html.
and click on our AgriCalendar.

421-3700.

MORE NEED-TO-KNOW FACTS ABOUT THE COLD SUPPLY CHAIN

LAST MONTH, we barely scratched the kind of sensor that can detect spoilage in behind these letters.

surface when we brought to mind some very food products and help reduce waste and • With frozen or refrigerated foods moved
interesting facets of the public refrigerated extend shelf life.
by planes, ships, trucks and trains, the cold-
warehousing (PRW) industry and the • You might only hear about a few of them, supply chain truly is global. At Adams Cold

overarching cold-supply food chain. here’s but food recall notices are issued just Storage alone, we secure products from
much more to share.
about daily. hey range from the Class I South America, South Africa, New Zealand,

• he transit period is the most critical part of recall—where there’s a strong possibility Vietnam, Malaysia, Europe, and India, in
the cold supply chain. Because there’s less consumption will cause sickness or even addition to products from all over the
by BEN ADAMS, JR.
human monitoring of temperature controls, death—to the less-serious Class II and Class USA and Canada.

it’s also the weaker link in the chain and III recalls.
• Lastly, have you heard the expression
where most food spoilage tends to occur.
• In Florida, people in the cold-supply food “Fresh, not frozen” when it comes to meats? BIO: Ben Adams Jr. is an owner and president
of Adams Cold Storage LLC in Auburndale. He
• Newer technology is helping with the food chain deal with a whole alphabet soup’s hat’s not necessarily true. While not hard
has been directly involved in citrus production,
transit challenges. his includes time-and- worth of regulatory agencies. Just to name frozen, many meats are shipped and stored warehousing and distribution, as well as state
temperature recorders (TTRs) and remote a few, there’s the FDA, USDA, USDC, at 28 degrees—four degrees below freezing. and community support, since 1980. His facility

temperature monitoring systems that can be NOAA, FDACS, BFD, FSIS, LEPC, SERC, hey have to be so that mouth-watering incorporates 200,000 square feet of multi-tem-
accessed through a Web-based interface and EPA, and sometimes, the CDC. You can steak you see at the grocery will be excellent perature warehousing, with an extensive expan-
sion plan on the horizon.
satellite. Under development is an optical
give Google a workout learning the agencies
eating ater you take it home.

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