The following is a post harvest posting from the University of California Davis relating to hauling both cut flowers and fresh produce.
This is followed by a bit of information on the Fresh Produce Mixer & Loading Guide. Very important information. Please read the following.
Cut flowers should be considered an ethylene sensitive commodity and grouped with the top group of ethylene sensitive fruits and vegetables. There is one exception to this and that is flowers that have been treated to make them insensitive to ethylene. They can be treated like the middle rows of produce that are not sensitive to ethylene. If you are not sure, then be safe and assume the flowers are ethylene sensitive.
Most flowers should be held at 0 – 2°C and grouped in the first temperature column. Tropical origin flowers may be injured by these low temperatures and should be grouped with items held at warmer temperatures.
The refrigerated trailer book<https://marketplace.ucdavis.edu/C21642_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=104&SINGLESTORE=true> has a section on pages 3 – 5 that describes how to set up a mixed load of fruits and vegetables.
Mixer/Loading Guide
As producer of HaulProduce.com, one of the most useful tools ever created to help perishable haulers avoid claims is Fresh Produce Mixer & Loading Guide. It was copyrighted in 1988. It’s creator, Rich Macleod of TransFresh Corp., Salinas, CA has always held produce truckers in high esteem and has shown concern for decades over the unfair treatment they too often experience at loading and unloading docks.
Few people in produce trucking have contributed anything as significant as his guide that shows groupings of fruits and vegetables that are compatible for hauling perishables on transists between two and 10 days.
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