- Author: Christine Huang
- Editor: Mary E. Reed
At the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center, we are excited to announce that our 19th annual Fresh Cut Products: Maintaining Quality and Safety Workshop is right around the corner! This year, the workshop will be held at the beautiful Buehler Alumni and Visitor's Center from September 23rd-25th. Our team of instructors understands that fresh-cut standards have become increasingly rigorous as consumers demand high quality, fresh, nutritious, safe, and long lasting produce. Our specialists are provide cutting-edge information that allow workshop participants to achieve this goal of high quality fruits and vegetables. Over the years, our fresh cut workshops have proven to be extremely...
- Author: Pam Devine
The Postharvest Technology Center scholarship recipient, Chiamaka Nwammadu, went home to Owerri, Nigeria a changed woman in late June.
The Center received 118 applications and awarded Chiamaka the 2014 Postharvest Technology Short Course scholarship this year as she impressed the reviewing panel with her future plans and showed how much she, and her associates, would benefit from the opportunity.
The scholarship, funded primarily by a trust created by Leonard and Marseille Morris, aims to provide an individual from a developing country the opportunity to learn about managing the postharvest handling of horticultural crops with an intent to take that information back to their home country and utilize it to benefit...
- Author: Christine Huang
- Editor: Mary E. Reed
From June 23rd to June 27th, the UC Davis Postharvest Center hosted the field tour component of the 36th annual Postharvest Technology of Horticultural Crops Short Course. The tour, organized by Center Director Dr. Beth Mitcham, allowed participants the opportunity to visit packinghouses, cooling and storage facilities, produce distribution centers, field harvest, packing, and transportation facilities all over California, from the Sacramento area to Bakersfield, Salinas, and San Francisco.
The field tour was a great experience for all participants involved. One participant, Veronique Froelich from Murray Valley Plums, remarked that she “learned so much, was...
- Author: Christine Huang
- Editor: Mary E. Reed
Recently, at the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center, we hosted our 36th annual Postharvest Technology of Horticultural Crops Short Course from June 16th-27th, 2014. The full course is comprised of a two-week intensive study of the biology of horticultural crops as well as an introduction and study of the most advanced technologies in fruit, nut, vegetable, and ornamental handling in California.
Some of the many topics included maturity and maturity indices, safety factors, harvesting systems, storage, the use of ethylene, and much more. Participants spent the first week in in-depth lectures, discussions, and demonstration sessions presented by our Postharvest Specialists.
Additionally, on Tuesday...
- Author: Mary E. Reed
With nearly 50 participants representing a broad cross-section of the produce industry, and 13 instructors from both academia and industry, the March 25-26, 2014 Fruit Ripening & Retail Handling Workshop offered many opportunities for dynamic and interactive educational learning. Ripening of featured produce items included the “Art of Ripening Bananas”, avocados, stone fruit, kiwifruit, mangoes and papayas, tomatoes, melons, and degreening of citrus. Overarching topics such as ethylene management, temperature management, ripening facilities, cold storage damage, flavor and aroma, and emerging ripening technologies were also discussed.
Thanks again to our Gold Sponsor, QA Supplies and Catalytic Generators,...
