New Arysta sales manager
Mark Peel is Arysta LifeScience North America’s territory sales manager in the Delta sales region.
He will focus on working with growers regarding fungicides in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee.
Peel has more than 20 years of sales and brand management experience. He recently served as the sales manager for Agri-Chem LLC.
Supply chain executive of the year named
Viterra’s director of transportation and logistics has been named supply chain executive of the year.
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The Freight Management Association of Canada presented the award to Tim Kennedy, who is responsible for Viterra’s logistics functions, including include rail, truck, multi-modal and vessel.
Kennedy has more than 35 years of experience in agribusiness with a background in freight and logistics management, grain marketing, export terminal and country elevator operations.
Local food funding in Man.
The second phase of the Local Sustainable Food Pilot Project has received more than $73,000 from the Manitoba government.
The government contributed $81,000 to the project last year, which was developed by Local Food Plus in partnership with Food Matters Manitoba.
The project helps institutions identify ways to increase the amount of locally grown food purchased and works with farmers to meet those demands.
The first phase focused on collecting baseline data for the eight participating institutions, which have also received advice on how to increase their purchases of locally grown food from existing distributors.
Resources are being developed to provide distributors and institutional purchasers with up-to-date information about where they can source local foods.
Processing funds
Peak of the Market is to receive a new $4 million processing system, which will help ship Manitoba-grown vegetables to consumers more efficiently and with higher quality. The project received $336,000 from Growing Forward 2’s Growing Innovation program.
The equipment is expected to increase productivity by 30 percent and provide higher quality produce for consumers by reducing vegetable bruising and damage.
