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Lead Glasshouse Engineer - Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Laborant - Bleiswijk

Farm Manager - India

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European Export Sales Manager (Asia Market)

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Director Of Growing - Carleton (MI) USA

OVERVIEW GLOBAL GINGER MARKET

China is the largest ginger grower on the global market and has seen the demand for the product increase due to the pandemic. Heavy rainfall has also resulted in a large part…

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Lead Glasshouse Engineer - Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Drought worries Peruvian mango growers and exporters

The Peruvian mango season is set to start in the middle of November with the northern growing region of Piura. This start is a few weeks late, which is the result of cooler…

Spike in demand for California dates

Supplies of California dates are solid as the industry approaches the end of harvest. “I don’t predict any type of shortages for dates. It doesn’t mean that sales are down. It…

Drop in Wisconsin cranberry production

Supplies of cranberries out of Wisconsin are down though demand has increased for the berry. “Wisconsin is a big player and across the board, Wisconsin’s volume is down about…

"Make the Big Game Your Bowl Game"

Avocados From Mexico partners with Troy Aikman and Erin Andrews on Super Bowl promotions

Avocados From Mexico is launching a campaign kickoff with sportscasters, Troy Aikman and Erin Andrews, to inspire shoppers to take their love of game day guac to the next…

Fresh Summit’s “Best of Show” winners are announced

Produce Marketing Association announced the “Best of Show” awards this week, a Fresh Summit tradition of recognition that celebrates innovation and creativity in marketing and…

Packaged citrus is in high demand

DiSilva Fruit and Morning Kiss Organic are ready to deliver organic and conventional citrus for the coming citrus season. DiSilva Fruit and Morning Kiss Organic have seen…

Mission Produce promotes Brooke Becker to Sales Director

Mission Produce announced the promotion of Brooke Becker to Sales Director. As Sales Director, Brooke is responsible for managing outside purchases and…

Generation Farms adds Mike Harris to lead watermelon sales team

Generation Farms has added produce industry veteran Mike Harris to their expanding sales team. Harris recently joined the leading grower-shipper of organic and…

Berry grower-shipper secures partnerships with growers in Peru for blueberries

Berry People, a year-round, full-line shipper of branded organic and conventional strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and avocados, has recently secured…

Global Focus Top Fruit

Smaller crop but bigger Washington apples

Harvest is close to finishing on the Washington apple crop that is seeing a drop in overall volume this year. “However, the quality of our fruit is outstanding and we have…

Jacques Banuls, of Edenys:

"The apple volumes are abundant in the southeast of France"

"Although the French apple harvest has not been great this year, we have abundant volumes in the south-east of the country, 10% above the productive potential," says Jacques…

Special Automation

New vision technology for lower volume growers

When new technology is introduced to agriculture, it’s not always within reach of smaller growers. But that’s not the case with one new vision system that’s…

New tech for contactless fresh food ordering

Chowbotics encourages grocers to ‘Reclaim Your Salad Bar’

While some people fear COVID has pushed salad bars to extinction, Californian company Chowbotics has unveiled new technological developments for its fresh food robot Sally…

Retail

Blue Apron: Q3 revenue increased 13%

Amazon: 37% year-over-year increase in Q3 net sales

Canada: Empire’s Michael Medline weighs in on supplier feesMichael Medline, president & CEO of Empire Company and Sobeys Inc., says he does not think government legislation of…

Fyffes North America wins award for "Easy to Eat, Easy to Pronounce" campaign

Fyffes North America "Easy to Eat, Easy to Pronounce" advertising campaign won Gold at the 2020 Summit Creative Awards in the Integrated Campaign, B2B category. This marks the…

Debbie Willmann celebrates 30 years at Index Fresh

Just 21 years old and barely into college, Debbie Willmann started at Index Fresh on October 21, 1990, as an accounting temp with plans of pursuing a career as…

Oregon Fruit releases new Dragon Fruit Mango to its 'Fruit In Hand' line

Oregon Fruit Products announced a tropical addition to its Fruit In Hand Original line, Dragon Fruit Mango. Featuring a vivid fuchsia color and tangy…

USDA revises U.S. standards for grapefruit and oranges

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is revising the U.S. Standards for Grades of Grapefruit (Texas and States other…

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University of Florida - Tropical Research and Education Center

Could the Miracle Fruit be suitable for South Florida?

In a study published this week, researchers at University of Florida’s Tropical Research and Education Center have unlocked the mystery behind a highly…

North Carolina State University, SAS and Intero Life Sciences project

Using data analysis to improve sweet potatoes

An interdisciplinary team from North Carolina State University, SAS, and Intero Life Sciences are partnering for a three-year project that will use artificial…

Recent farm bills have made progress in helping US specialty farmers

For years, Jimmy Buckley watched government subsidies go to big corn and soybean farmers growing crops that become fuel and animal feed. Buckley grows organic…

No more coca, but organic limes for Colombian farmers

When the first shipment of Colombian limes from "Persian Limes" arrived at organic fruit specialist Eosta in Waddinxveen last week, they came with a very nice surprise. On the…

Mexico

Chiapas registers a decline in mango and banana production

According to a report from the Agri-food Information Service, in 2019 the southern Mexican state of Chiapas produced 696,877 tons of bananas, i.e. 0.15% fewer…

'Solutions for food retailers facing seismic shift in consumer habits and spend'

Global logistics company C.H. Robinson is bringing supply chain expertise and technology to the aid of grocery retailers facing unprecedented demand and…

Late South African cherry crop eagerly awaited in Europe & UK

The European and UK markets are “very, very ready” for their first cherries (the more so because the harvest is a week to two later than last year) but the logistics of…

“It’s exciting that we’ll enter the Japanese market this year”

High demand for Egyptian citrus in Europe and Saudi ArabiaThe pandemic still brings a lot of uncertainty to the Egyptian citrus exporters, as they’ve been working on the Navel…

“Indian consumers are convinced avocado will be the fruit of the future”

Pictures of the Indian floods have been shown on many news outlets, but these floods are not unusual for India. Heavy rains during the monsoon season replenish the water…

Successful use of Pixofarm technology in Europe arouses interest from the southern hemisphere

"Fruit growers are clearly looking for smart and flexible approaches"

Pixofarm's digital solution for the fruit industry is now being used by producers in Chile, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, after customers in Europe reported on…

Justin Leonard - Jackie Leonard & Sons.

"We will lose the whole of November, usually a very busy time for us,”

Ireland has been back in full lock down for two weeks, prior to that different counties had different levels of lock down. The situation will be reviewed again on December…

Henk van der Meij, Hars-Hagebauer, the Netherlands

“Brazil's preparing for mangos year-end push”

Sea freight mangos went through a hard time this summer. That’s according to Henk van der Meij of Hars-Hagebauer, a Dutch wholesaler that specializes in…

Jordi Fijnheer, FruitPro, the Netherlands

“Israeli avocados benefitting from empty European market”

Israel sends large amounts of mangos and avocados to Europe. Jordi Fijnheer, Sales Manager at FruitPro, in the Netherlands, however, noticed that this year…

Kenny Moran - The Avocado Company

Good quality avocados, but less big sizes from Chile

Avocado Company received the first Hass avocados from Chile mid-September, but hadn’t been seeing anything close to the volume they would have expected in the last month. In…

RetailSonar enters partnership with French Geocible

"Supermarkets given opportunity to predict turnover per location with up to 90% accuracy"

"The Belgian-Dutch geo-marketing scale-up RetailSonar is well on its way to becoming a European player. Thanks to a new partnership with Geocible, French retailers now also…

BASF to acquire innovative melon breeding company ASL

On Wednesday, October 28, 2020 BASF has formally agreed to acquire ASL, a melon breeding company, to continue expanding its position as a partner in the fruit and vegetable…

Wil Beekers, BerryWorld, The Netherlands

“Our new building should be 20% more efficient”

“After all these years, we were bursting at the seams. We even had to rent three additional locations. We needed sufficient capacity for storing and processing our soft fruit.…

With Cool Port II, Kloosterboer wants to provide more efficient return shipments soon

Unload fruit, load frozen French fries

Reefer containers filled with fruit arrive by ship at Cool Port I in Waalhaven, Rotterdam. The pallets are removed, and in future, the reefers will be loaded with frozen…

Zespri welcomes new Fresh Carriers vessel MV Kowhai into its shipping fleet

The New Zealand kiwifruit industry will be boosted by three specialised reefer vessels following significant investment by operator Fresh Carriers, underpinned by their…

DG agri dashboard - Apples

Volume of EU-28 apple crop expected to be about 10.8 mln tons

During the ongoing marketing year, prices remain firm above the historical reference period, as expected, due to a small crop. There are indications pointing to a Polish crop even…

"When looking for innovative laser labeling for fresh produce, beware imitations! With almost 15 years’ experience LaserFood is the pioneer and undisputed leader of…

More up-scale markets appearing in China

A new kind of market is starting to appear in big Chinese cities, appealing to a more well-off sector of the population and aiming also at receiving tourism groups. These…

New Indian startup to curb onion wastage

Although India is the second-largest onion producer in the world, prices have been on a steady rise owing to heavy rainfall in some states and poor storage facilities in…

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar:

Indian government to release 100,000 tonnes of onion buffer stock to combat price hike

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has stated that the federal government will release 100,000 tonnes of buffer stock of onions. The minister…

Vietnam: Dong Thap province preserves endangered pink mandarin

The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has approved a project to preserve the specialty pink mandarin of its Lai Vung district. The fruit allegedly faces…

Ocean carrier schedule reliability drops to 2020 low

Schedule reliability of ocean carriers fell to 56 per cent in September. The on-time performance of Asia shipments to the US west and east coasts plunging…

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