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What drives the success of SnapDragon and RubyFrost apple varieties?

Growers of SnapDragon and RubyFrost apple varieties in New York state are pleased with the quality and production volumes of this year’s crop. Harvest of both varieties has…

Byron Machuca of White Lion Foods

Lower volumes but high pricing and demand for Peruvian garlic

The Peruvian garlic season started in October and is expected to last through the middle of January. While the season started on time, the overall volumes are expected to be…

PMA virtual town hall

Cracking the code of seasonality in leafy green outbreaks

This week’s PMA virtual town hall looked at leafy green outbreaks and research that is being conducted on the factors contributing to these outbreaks The panel was led by Trevor…

Mississippi sweet potato harvest wraps up with good yields and no hurricane damage

The Mississippi sweet potato harvest has wrapped up right on time, despite some rainy days and the many storms that have passed through the region. “The middle of November is…

Giumarra now offering Fair Trade Certified™ avocados grown in Mexico

The Giumarra Companies announced a partnership with the Genel family of Rancho Agua Blanca to offer Fair Trade Certified™ avocados grown in the state of Michoacán, Mexico.…

Imports surge as port of Los Angeles October cargo exceeds 980,000 TEUs

The Port of Los Angeles processed 980,729 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in October, an increase of 27.3% compared to October 2019. Propelled by…

Peru

Camposol extends its agricultural operations into Mexico

Camposol, the Peruvian agro-industrial company, will expand its agricultural operations in Mexico, where it plans to install avocado and blueberry plantations.…

Collaboration with banana sector

How Rainforest Alliance is working to implement and improve new certification program

Since the publication of the 2020 Certification Program, the Rainforest Alliance has held more than 15 technical meetings with many participants from banana sector…

Little Leaf Farms’ fresh, crispy baby greens now delivered to homes through Amazon Fresh

Little Leaf Farms is now offering home delivery in the greater Boston and New York City area through Amazon Fresh. COVID-19 has increased demand for grocery deliveries, and…

Ahold Delhaize and Centerbridge Partners announce acquisition of FreshDirect

Ahold Delhaize and Centerbridge Partners announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire FreshDirect, an online grocer based in New York…

Special Wholesale markets

Deon van Zyl & Hendrik Eksteen: Grow Fresh Produce Agents

Johannesburg Market: biggest fresh produce trading floor in Africa

Market agents arrive from 3am at the Johannesburg fresh produce market in City Deep where ten to fifteen thousand buyers daily start trading at 5am. Forty-eight percent of…

Global focus citrus

Naturkost Schramm: Spanish season is going full speed ahead

"Despite Corona, there is a good supply situation for organic citrus"

The supply of citrus fruits from the Mediterranean region is currently going full speed ahead, in the area of organic goods as well. "About four weeks ago, the first organic…

Retail

Farmstead raises $7.9mln

Hy-Vee will be hiring 10,000 new employees

US: Target’s grocery and online growth help drive Q3 gainsFood and beverage sales, along with e-commerce, helped drive year-over-year sales growth of 21.3% for Target in the…

Bobalu Berry Farms celebrates end of 2020 fresh strawberry season in Santa Maria

Bobalu Berry Farms hosted an employee celebration last Friday to mark the official end of the 2020 fresh strawberry season in Santa Maria. Bobby and RC Jones took the…

Ocean Mist® Farms' Kevin Tottino receives Progressive Grocer's GenNext Award

Ocean Mist Farms, grower and marketer of fresh artichokes in the U.S., announced that Progressive Grocer has named Kevin Tottino, value added manager at Ocean…

FDA releases new outbreak investigation table

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is committed to transparency and keeping the public and stakeholders informed of our work upholding the safety of our…

Wisconsin onions: Above average demand this week

Jason Pearson with Eagle Eye Produce in Nyssa, OR, told us that his sales office is staying busy. “We’ve pretty much wrapped up Thanksgiving, but we have a lot…

Mexico

The floods in Tabasco affect 50% of the state's banana plantations

The serious floods in Tabasco have caused important losses to the agricultural sector, mainly impacting banana production. "Producers estimate that 50% of…

90% of Mexican pear imports come from the US

According to statistics from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the country is Mexico's leading supplier of pears as it supplies approximately…

Kouga Berries picks final blueberries of a successful third season

Kouga Berries, the Gamtoos Valley’s sole blueberry producers, is 90% harvested through a strong crop. On some some of the older blocks more than 30 tonnes of berries were…

Laurent De Smedt, BelOrta, Belgium

“The new Fred® pear plays in on the demand for red-blushed pears”

This week, BelOrta made the Fred® pear available. This pear was commercially introduced on a small scale last year. However, this year, this Belgian producers organization can…

Camille Marques, of Le Verger de la Blottière:

"We now offer 100% recyclable cardboard packaging for our flagship products"

Two years ago, Le Verger de la Blottière confirmed its commitment to reducing the use of plastic in its packaging. The Covid-19 crisis has not slowed this process down; quite…

Kees Havenaar: "I don't think it's been this bad across the board before"

"The 'perfect storm' hits Spanish greenhouse vegetable sales

"I was just wondering whether it has ever been this quiet and negative in the trade in the past 25 years." Well, the tone has been set, but it is clear that Kees Havenaar of…

"You need to make sure you are buying a variety which is going to work for your particular situation"

Cherries have been grown in Scotland for quite a few years but are only now becoming really commercially available. One grower Stead Nicolle, started growing cherries back in…

Apple prices remain firm due to a 'small' crop

During the ongoing marketing year apple prices remain firm above the historical reference period, as expected, due to a 'small' crop. Although the fresh market is doing well,…

Provided by Top Control

Solutions that optimize the fruit and vegetable packaging process

The year 2020 has been a difficult one dominated by the pandemic. Even with increasing work volumes and fewer staff available, TopControl technology provided its hardware and…

Calderoni offers a double mulcher that allows a full processing on the whole row

Save time and money on shredding in one single step

Orchard shredder machines that perform only once on each row are increasingly in demand. This solution is offered by the Expander machine and on the one hand it saves diesel…

the new Fresno chili pepper of Eminent Seeds

"Upright and uniform fruits are easier to harvest"

Eminent Seeds is marketing a new and improved version of the Fresno. "The chilli pepper has proven its worth at a number of tastings both in the Netherlands and abroad and…

The SIVAL postponed until 2022

Faced with the current unprecedented health situation, and the constraints that it is generating, Christophe Béchu, Maire of Angers, and Bruno Dupont, President of the SIVAL have…

Maxim Balakarev - SkyEast UK

Combining Easychar with banana growing

Decarbonisation and sustainable farming are both hot topics just now and one of Sky East UK’s businesses is application of technology to reprocess organic…

J E Tipper - Passionfruit

"At the moment it is on track for some good crops leading into Christmas"

Major Australian wholesaler, J E Tipper is hopeful that the 2020 summer passionfruit season being a ‘bounce-back’ year after the weather and drought had an effect on previous…

Folium 2.0 hits the market ahead of schedule

Autogrow has launched the second generation of its Folium Smart Sensor Network, ahead of schedule to meet customer demand for greater access to data in the cloud. “Since the initial launch…

Radfords embraces AI optimisation with shareholding in PlantTech

Radfords is looking forward to collaborating closely with PlantTech and joins other founding shareholders: Zespri, Bluelab, Robotics Plus, Trimax, Cucumber, Eurofins, The…

Overall price shows downward trend

Chinese ginger suppliers wait to see how the market develops

The new season has already begun for Chinese ginger traders. The price of ginger increased several times between September and late October, but has since showed a downward…

Emerson survey: 82% of respondents said they have changed their habits in purchasing food products

Retailers need to adjust to new consumer behaviors shaped by Covid-19

A survey released by Emerson’s Commercial & Residential Solutions business, shows that consumers have dramatically altered their shopping habits in response to Covid-19,…

Chinese potato acreage to grow by 0.4%/year in the next decade

China's 2020/2021 potato sales season runs from September to August. That harvest is estimated at 99 million tons. That's a three percent increase compared to the estimated 96…

The first container of Chilean blueberries shipped by sea arrives in Shanghai

On November 12, 2020, the first container of Chilean blueberries shipped by sea arrived in Shanghai. This shipment of blueberries from Giddings Fruit was…

'Alibaba of Agriculture', Agri10x, gears up to set new records

Pune-based agtech major Agri10x is expected to clock a whopping GMV of INR 100 crore by December 2021, making it not just one of the fastest growing agtech…

China removes tariffs on Laos, but critics say barriers remain for Lao companies

China has agreed to eliminate tariffs on 97 percent of Lao goods, effectively making almost all Lao exports to China duty free, but sources in Laos are worried…

Japan poised to overtake China as the Philippines’s top banana export market

Japan is poised to overtake China as the Philippines’s top banana export market this year as total purchase by Japan ending September grew 8.8 percent on the…

market analyst Hans Verwegen, Enza Zaden:

The impact of the coronavirus on society, consumption, sales channels and supply chain

“The coronavirus is a disruptive phenomenon,” says market analyst Hans Verwegen. “Trends that were always perceived as relatively stable have been or are being broken. We need…

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Researchers examined effect of mobile phone and internet access on farming

Boost smallholder phone access for better crop yields

Small-scale farmers across the globe have low access to mobile networks and internet, the kind of data-driven farming that could boost incomes, a study has found. Data-driven…

A Filipino student invents solar windows made from rotten vegetables

Carvey Maigue of Mapua University has been shortlisted for the James Dyson Award 2020 for his system called AuREUS, a device that transforms rotten fruit and vegetables into…

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