Wada Farms Improves Pallet Quality and Consistency with CHEP

Wada Farms, one of Idaho’s leading potato, onion and sweet potato grower/shippers, today announced the expansion of its relationship with CHEP for pallet pooling services. The company transports Dole and Wada Farms brand potatoes and onions on CHEP pallets from the company’s facilities to supermarkets, mass market retailers and club stores across the USA.

Wada Farms previously used limited-use whitewood pallets to ship product, but experienced productivity and quality issues. In addition, the company’s customers requested the use of the CHEP pallet program to improve supply chain efficiencies.

"By using the CHEP program, Wada Farms is seeing significant improvements in our operating efficiencies, from our packing operation to our customers’ facilities around the country. It is also important that CHEP helps us meet our sustainability goals,” said Kip Yeates, Vice President of Operations at Wada Farms.

Based on third-party Life-Cycle Inventory Analysis findings, through its use of the CHEP pooling system as opposed to limited-use whitewood pallets, Wada Farms is reducing solid waste generation by nearly 400 tons each year, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions by 58 percent and saving enough energy to power more than 65 homes with electricity for a year.