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  1. The Automated Farm

    “The future of farming is already here… Taylor Farms is a prime example of changes to come in the valley,” says this San Francisco Chronicle article, Ag-tech: The automated farm.

    Taylor Farms embraces AgTech innovations, from automated harvesting in our fields to robotic case packing in our facilities.

    As we harvest over 1.5 million pounds of lettuce each day, automation makes sense, and is the logical next step in farming and production. A widespread labor shortage in the agriculture industry has solidified the need for technology and innovation in our business.

    The robotic arms in our processing facility have the ability to assemble 60 to 80 salads a minute, which is double the output of packing by hand. This type of automation creates opportunities for higher skilled positions, directing employee growth to roles where they are supervising automated lines or focusing on quality control.

    The same goes in the field. Since automation, productivity has increased from 400 pounds of product harvested per hour to 700-800 pounds per hour, and has also created a more ergonomically desirable environment for employees. Traditional hand harvesting requires employees to spend 7-8 hours a day bent over, cutting product by hand. With our automated harvesters, employees now are able to comfortably ride on the harvester’s platform and inspect, trim, and pack the romaine, ensuring the quality of the harvested product.

    Learn more about how we use these ag tech innovations by reading the full San Francisco Chronicle article. To learn about the efficiency of automated harvesting machinery, read this feature from Intel IQ. To see how Taylor Farms is utilizing technology and automation in additional areas of the business, check out this article from WIRED.

     

  2. Friends Don’t Let Friends Eat Boring Salads!

    In honor of #NationalFriendshipDay on Sunday, August 6, we’re hosting a giveaway for a chance to win a month of Chopped Salad Kits for you and a friend — because friends don’t let friends eat boring salads!

    Here’s how to enter:

    1. Follow @YourTaylorFarms on Instagram
    2. Find our #NationalFriendshipDay post and tag a friend who you would like to share the grand prize with!

    The contest closes on August 6 at 11:59pm PST. US residents only. This contest is not sponsored by Instagram. Good luck! Photo via: 8th and Lake

    In addition, to help you celebrate this holiday we’ve identified a few of our favorite recipes using Taylor Farms Chopped Salad Kits that you can make with your friends this weekend!

    Mexican Chimichurri Chicken Salad using Taylor Farms Southwest Chopped Salad Kit // Recipe here.

    Asian Chopped Salad With Pan-Seared Sesame Tofu using Taylor Farms Asian Chopped Salad // Recipe here.

    Mediterranean Buddha Bowl With Toasted Chickpeas And Halloumi using Taylor Farms Mediterranean Crunch Organic Chopped Salad Kit // Recipe here.

     

  3. Taylor Farms Food Service Post

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  4. Test Blog

    What is Lorem Ipsum?

    Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

    Why do we use it?

    It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

     

    Where does it come from?

    Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

    The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.