Ocean Mist Farm Machinery

Indus­try and Trade

We know it’s crit­i­cally impor­tant to stay con­nected. Our rela­tion­ships inside the food and pro­duce busi­ness pro­vide us with cur­rent prod­ucts and trends, access to indus­try events & pro­mo­tions and with a con­tin­u­ous flow of per­ti­nent infor­ma­tion. We’ll use our con­nec­tions to assist cus­tomers in mak­ing informed choices and be successful.

Indus­try and Trade

We know it’s crit­i­cally impor­tant to stay con­nected. Our rela­tion­ships inside the food and pro­duce busi­ness pro­vide us with cur­rent prod­ucts and trends, access to indus­try events & pro­mo­tions and with a con­tin­u­ous flow of per­ti­nent infor­ma­tion. We’ll use our con­nec­tions to assist cus­tomers in mak­ing informed choices and be successful.

PRO*ACT

  • http://​proac​tusa​.com
  • PRO*ACT is a national net­work of inde­pen­dent, local dis­trib­u­tors com­prised of 70+ dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ters across North Amer­ica who can deliver qual­ity fresh food from any­where around the world. With an aver­age of 50+ years in the indus­try per com­pany, PRO*ACT dis­trib­u­tors bring an unpar­al­leled level of com­mit­ment, exper­tise and expe­ri­ence. PRO*ACT con­tracts with the industry’s lead­ing grow­ers and ship­pers, pro­vid­ing the food­ser­vice and retail indus­try with the “PRO*ACT Advan­tage” in prod­uct qual­ity, safety and value. PRO*ACT pro­vides cat­e­gory cost man­age­ment through com­mod­ity con­tract pric­ing, in-​house con­sul­ta­tion ser­vices, and inte­grated pro­duce pro­gram dis­tri­b­u­tion man­age­ment – bring­ing opti­mal eco­nomic value and food safety to food­ser­vice and retail busi­nesses and also set­ting new stan­dards in the pro­duce indus­try each and every day.

Fruits and Veg­gies – More Matters!

  • http://​fruit​sand​veg​gies​more​mat​ters​.org
  • Hosted by the Pro­duce for Bet­ter Health Foun­da­tion, this is the con­sumer and media web­site for the More Mat­ters cam­paign to pro­mote the con­sump­tion of fruits and veg­eta­bles. This is a health ini­tia­tive under Pro­duce for Bet­ter Health orga­ni­za­tion (non­profit) with the focus on help­ing Amer­i­cans eat more fruits and veg­eta­bles. Look here for meal plans, recipes, ideas for kids’ activ­i­ties and much more.

United States Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture (U.S.D.A.)

  • http://​usda​.gov
  • USDA Mis­sion Areas include: Farm and For­eign Agri­cul­tural Ser­vices; Food, Nutri­tion and Con­sumer Ser­vices; Food Safety; Mar­ket­ing and Reg­u­la­tory Pro­grams; Nat­ural Resources and Envi­ron­ment; Research, Edu­ca­tion and Eco­nom­ics; Rural Development.

Part­ner­ship for Food Safety Education

  • http://​fight​bac​.org
  • The Part­ner­ship for Food Safety Edu­ca­tion (PFSE) is a not-​for-​profit orga­ni­za­tion that unites indus­try asso­ci­a­tions, pro­fes­sional soci­eties in food sci­ence, nutri­tion and health, con­sumer groups, and the U.S. gov­ern­ment to edu­cate the pub­lic about safe food handling.

United Fresh Pro­duce Association

  • http://​unit​ed​fresh​.org
  • United Fresh Pro­duce Asso­ci­a­tion is a lead­ing indus­try trade asso­ci­a­tion com­mit­ted to dri­ving the growth and suc­cess of pro­duce com­pa­nies and their partners.

Pro­duce Mar­ket­ing Association

  • The Pro­duce Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­a­tion is a lead­ing global trade asso­ci­a­tion serv­ing the entire pro­duce and flo­ral sup­ply chains by enhanc­ing the mar­ket­ing of pro­duce, flo­ral, and related prod­ucts and ser­vices worldwide.

Fresh Pro­duce & Flo­ral Council

  • http://​fpfc​.org
  • Since 1965, the Fresh Pro­duce & Flo­ral Coun­cil has been pro­vid­ing unique net­work­ing and busi­ness growth oppor­tu­ni­ties for pro­fes­sion­als in the pro­duce and flo­ral indus­tries in Cal­i­for­nia. Its mem­bers include grow­ers, ship­pers, whole­salers, bro­kers, dis­trib­u­tors and retail­ers of pro­duce and/​or flo­ral items.

America’s Farm-​to-​Fork Capital

  • http://​farmto​fork​.com
  • The mis­sion of the farm-​to-​fork move­ment is to bring aware­ness to the Sacra­mento region’s local food pro­duc­tion, con­sump­tion and sus­tain­abil­ity as well as the con­tri­bu­tion and expor­ta­tion of sus­tain­able prod­ucts to the rest of the nation and world. It high­lights and fea­tures the farm­ers, chefs and culi­nary com­mu­nity that make the Sacra­mento region the Farm-​to-​Fork Cap­i­tal of America.

UC Davis Posthar­vest Tech­nol­ogy Center

  • http://​posthar​vest​.ucdavis​.edu
  • The Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia at Davis is a lead­ing source of research-​based infor­ma­tion on the posthar­vest qual­ity, safety and mar­ketabil­ity of fresh hor­ti­cul­tural prod­ucts for the pro­duce value chain. Through the posthar­vest research and exten­sion pro­grams, they strive to pro­vide rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion to Cal­i­for­nia grow­ers, ship­pers, mar­keters, car­ri­ers, dis­trib­u­tors, retail­ers, proces­sors, and con­sumers of fresh hor­ti­cul­tural crops.

Pro­duce For Bet­ter Health Foundation

  • http://​pbh​foun​da​tion​.org
  • PBH serves as a go-​to resource for fruit and veg­etable mar­ket­ing and edu­ca­tion. By pro­mot­ing increased con­sump­tion of fresh fruits and veg­eta­bles, they fos­ter an ideal of serv­ing pro­duce at every eat­ing occasion.

The Packer

What Col­leagues Say

“The posthar­vest fac­ulty at U.C. Davis have enjoyed a long and mutu­ally ben­e­fi­cial rela­tion­ship with Gen­eral Pro­duce. The Posthar­vest Tech­nol­ogy Cen­ter (http://​posthar​vest​.ucdavis​.edu) rou­tinely sources fresh pro­duce from Gen­eral Pro­duce, both for cater­ing needs and for posthar­vest research. We count on Gen­eral Pro­duce to pro­vide us the fruit and veg­etable prod­ucts with the specs we need.

“GP also gen­er­ously and expertly hosts many stu­dent groups from U.C. Davis who are learn­ing about the prac­ti­cal han­dling and mar­ket­ing of fresh pro­duce. The Posthar­vest Tech­nol­ogy Cen­ter is pleased to have tech­ni­cal staff from GP in our work­shops and sem­i­nars on fresh pro­duce.”

Beth Mitcham and Marita Cantwell, Ph.D.
Posthar­vest Spe­cial­ists
Posthar­vest Tech­nol­ogy Cen­ter, Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Davis

Sacra­mento

1330 North B Street
Sacra­mento, CA 95811

P.O. Box 308
Sacra­mento, CA 95812 – 0308

Mount Shasta

1101 Ream Avenue
Mount Shasta, CA 96067


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