Wholesale Raw Farm Products Business Guide
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Civil money penalties and license actions for recordkeeping and traceability failures
$50,000–$500,000 per incident in fines, legal fees, and business interruption for mid‑size operations (recurring risk annually for any firm with weak documentation).Wholesale and farm operations handling raw agricultural commodities are repeatedly cited and fined when they cannot produce required USDA/FDA records (e.g., FSMA Produce Safety Rule, FSMA Traceability Rule, USDA GAP / FSIS documentation) during inspections. These violations often trigger civil money penalties, product seizures, and, in USDA‐regulated programs, suspension or withdrawal of inspection services, which effectively shuts down commerce until issues are corrected.
Throughput bottlenecks from manual compliance record creation and retrieval
$5,000–$50,000 per month in lost labor productivity and underutilized capacity for a mid‑size facility, plus opportunity cost from constrained throughput during peak seasons.Operations that depend on paper logs and manual data entry for FSMA Produce Safety, FSMA traceability, and USDA GAP documentation lose operational capacity as staff and line time are diverted to form‑filling, filing, and searching during audits or investigations. Loading docks and packing lines slow or stop while traceability and inspection paperwork is completed or located.
Poor sourcing and risk decisions due to fragmented compliance and traceability data
$100,000–$1,000,000 over several years in compounded effects: higher recall exposure, insurance premiums, and lost sales from reputational damage with major buyers.When compliance records, audit findings, and traceability data are scattered across paper files, shared drives, and separate systems, managers lack clear visibility into grower performance and risk profiles. This leads to repeated buying from high‑risk farms or packers with poor compliance histories, increasing the likelihood of future recalls and enforcement actions.
Grain Moisture and Handling Shrink During Storage
1.2%-1.5% of total grain weight value per storage cycleWholesale raw farm products like corn experience unavoidable weight loss, known as shrink, during drying and storage to reach safe moisture levels (e.g., from 25% to 15.5%). This includes moisture shrink calculated precisely via formulas and additional handling losses from drying and movement. Grain buyers apply constant shrink factors of 1.2%-1.5% of total weight, with handling losses ranging 0.22%-1.71%, considered systemic in the industry.