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NEWS January 8, 2018 posted by WillieeArmellini

Floral transport and elogs. Why you should care.

What is an elog and why should you care? I have written before about this requirement that has affected all truckers starting on December 17th 2017. Simply put the elog…

COLD January 4, 2018 posted by WillieeArmellini

Cold out there!

The cold weather has affected floral transport but the wheels keep on moving. Speaking with some of the carriers it seems the biggest issue is the unusual cold and icy…

Ecuadorean news January 2, 2018 posted by WillieeArmellini

Ecuadorean flowers duty increase

Flowers from Ecuador cost more to import in 2018 due to the GSP expiration. For those who are not aware GSP or General System of Preferences is how exporting countries…

AFE video contest December 27, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Video Contest

This link will take you to the AFE 10 video finalist. These are really well done and hard to pick just one. Check it out! http://contest.endowment.org/

Cal Flowers December 22, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Cal Flowers: Board Election Results & New Officers

Board Election Results & New Officers Thanks to those 69 Floral Members who cast ballots in the recent board election voting – we easily met the 65-vote quorum threshold to…

Flowers of Colombia December 19, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Flowers of Colombia part 2

J Schwanke does a great job of promotion the Flowers of Colombia. https://ubloom.com/blog/2017/12/17/flowers-colombia-ubloom-new-varieties-exhibit-proflora-2017/

Cultivate December 15, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Cultivate 18

http://cultivate18.org/REG

2017 year end review December 6, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

2017 Year end review

I did some follow up on Thanksgiving and it appears that this, once profitable holiday day, is now only a speed bump on the floral holiday path. From most accounts…

Floraculture International Magazine December 1, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Floraculture International latest issue

http://www.floraculture.eu/digital-magazine/fci-november-december-2017/

Memorial Day Flowers November 22, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Memorial Day Flowers

Memorial Day Flowers 2018 Lorena’s Fall update Introduction: My name is Lorena…

IFTF 2017 Holland November 15, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

IFTF and Royal FloraHolland expo review 2017

Crossing the ocean in a big shinny aluminum tube brings more change than one would imagine. First of all you pay more attention to the safety briefing, specifically that part…

NEWS November 13, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

World Floral Summit 2017 Aalsmeer Holland

This event sponsored by Royal FloraHolland was planned by long time industry visionaries Herman De Boon and Jaap Kras. As the title suggest this was a meeting of those companies…

Events November 2, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Flowersandcents.com is off to Holland

One of the last big show of the year is the IFTF show in Holland put on by HPP. As well there is the FloraHolland show at the Aalsmeer auction…

Airline News October 29, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Atlas Air Contract Dispute With Pilots Simmers Weeks Before Holiday Shipping Season

Just when you thought the air freight could not get worse. Read the story:

WFFSA October 23, 2017 posted by WillieeArmellini

Wffsa Distribution Conference 2017 Miami

Wffsa pulled out all the stops with their latest attempt to lure wffsa members from around the USA to participate in their show. There were angels flying around and gamblers…