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BVT Products

Alfalfa Hay

Alfalfa Hay

Alfalfa Hay, Medicago Sativa, also known as Lucerne hay or Lucerne grass, is one of the most important forage crops cultivated in agriculture. It is widely grown throughout the world as forage for cattle and is typically harvested as hay

Bermuda Grass

Bermuda Grass

Bermuda Grass, Cynodon Dactylon, is a perennial warm season grass that is grown throughout the Southern United States including the Imperial Valley. Bermuda Grass is grown primarily for seed production used in...

Klein Grass

Klein Grass

Klein Grass, Panicum Coloratum, is a warm season perennial bunchgrass that is planted in the southwestern portion of the United States for hay production and grazing. Klein Grass is a native grass of Africa and was first introduced into the United States in the 1950’s.

Sudan Hay

Sudan Hay

Sudan Grass, Sorghum Sudanense, is a warm season annual grass that is adaptive to the dry, arid growing conditions in the southwestern United States during the spring and summer seasons. Sudan Grass has become a very popular crop in the Imperial Valley region

Timothy Hay

Timothy Hay

Timothy Grass, Phleum Pretense, is a cool season perennial grass native to most of Europe. It grows from 50-150 cm tall with leaves up to 45 cm long and 1 cm wide. The flowerhead is 7 to 15 cm long and 8 to 10 cm broad, with densely packed spikelets.

Shipping News

Port of LA Invest Billions

Port of LA to Invest Billions in Infrastructure

The Journal of Commerce Online - News Story
Port's strategic plan aims to keep top ranking in U.S. ports

The Port of Los Angeles will invest billions of dollars in transportation infrastructure to maintain its ranking as the largest U.S. container port, according to the 2012-2017 strategic plan released over the weekend.

The port’s container business accounts for more than 80 percent of its revenue. About 50 percent of the containerized shipments are discretionary, which means they are headed to destinations outside of Southern California.

“Protecting and retaining discretionary cargo market share in the face of changing economic conditions and intensifying competition is the key to the future of the port and the region,” the port stated in the 2012-2017 Strategic Plan.

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Carriers to Raise Rates Again in April

Carriers to Raise Pacific Rates Again in April

The Journal of Commerce Online - News Story
Trans-Pacific eastbound ship lines say they’ll increase rates $400 per FEU in mid-April and ask for more in new service contracts

Confident that a previously announced general rate increase of $300 per 40-foot container unit will take effect on Thursday as planned, shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific announced an additional $400 per-FEU increase to take effect on April 15.  Details