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Track fruit and veg online
Find out where your food comes from
By Culinate staff
July 23, 2008
Using data from the USDA, the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture has built a webpage that lets viewers track more than 95 different common produce items. Select “bananas,” for example, and you’ll get a chart detailing shipments of bananas from various countries (Guatemala is number one) and monthly shipping percentages. No big surprises here: Mexico and California dominate most of the growing regions.
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1. by anonymous on Aug 5, 2008 at 2:22 PM PDT
Intersting bit on tracking. I ran across this - http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/othercities/sanjose/stories/2008/08/04/story3.html?b=1217822400%5E1677693
It looks like this service/product will allow consumers to track an actual piece of produce backwards through the supply chain to the field and grower.
http://www.harvestmark.com/solution/consumer/
This seems like pretty interesting information for those of us who are interested in where our food comes from. Do you know anything about them?
2. by Caroline Cummins on Aug 7, 2008 at 4:42 PM PDT
Anonymous: Nope, we’d never heard anything about HarvestMark (a brand of YottaMark) apart from what you’ve shared about them. We do wonder, however: Whatever happened to tattooed produce?
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