Posts By: Ken Gilliland

Electronic Logging Device (ELD) and Federal Government guidance for produce

Many of you that subscribe to the bi-monthly Produce Insights have no doubt been following the ELD mandate and the impact to transporting produce over the past several months, which was first reported in the then titled Tommy O Blog on November 22, 2017. While Western Growers over the last six months has been reporting ...

Misbranding is a violation of PACA and can result in a Breach of Contract

What Constitutes misbranding? Misbranding, in its most elementary form, is a misrepresentation of what is being sold and shipped.  As it relates to a sales contract, PACA defines it as a violation of section 2(5) to misrepresent by word, act, mark, stencil, label, statement, or deed, the character, kind, grade, quality, quantity, size, pack, weight, ...