This month’s issue helps nurseries navigate the challenges of shipping their products efficiently and economically to their buyers.
- Looking back and forward: Nurseries have benefitted from favorable freight availability and rates, but will it continue? By Curt Kipp.
- Packing with care: Damage claims can be minimized with careful organizing and loading of plants. By Jon Bell.
- Smooth road: Sound planning and communication make the best use of money and time during the shipping process. By Mitch Lies.
- Freight fraud: It’s prudent to stay wise to double brokering, ID theft and other freight-related scams. By Curt Kipp.
Columns:
- What does growth mean? “For me it is cultural growth — how a group solves problems together, makes small, meaningful improvements, how they interact with the outside world, and how they take care of each other.” By Ben Verhoeven.
- A gathering of community: “At convention we celebrate the year that was, and peak at what is ahead for your association.” By Jeff Stone.
Growing Knowledge, an ongoing series provided by Oregon State University in collaboration with the USDA and in partnership with OAN.
- Water, rhodies, and root rot: USDA — ARS experiment attempts to define ways to manage Phytophthera root rot through irrigation controls. By Jerry Weiland, Carolyn Scagel, Nikalus Grunwald, Anne Davis, Bryan Beck and Jesse Mitchell
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