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Good lemon market thanks to high lime prices

Supplies of lemons are steady with good quality fruit coming from California. “I’m pulling from D1 and D2,” says Paul G. Gonzalez of River City Produce Inc. Based in San…

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Senior Commercial Manager Spain

Cauliflower volumes going up, pushing pricing back down

Cauliflower has resumed to steady supplies out of California. “The past few weeks had been tight because the desert season wrapped up sooner than expected. There was a bit of a…

Mango shipper announces equity partnership with Peruvian packer

Freska Produce International announced that it will enter into an equity partnership with Tallanes Packers SAC of Tambogrande, Piura, Peru for Peruvian mangos. This…

Walmart recognizes Taylor Farms as 2022 Food Supplier of the Year

Taylor Farms was recognized as Walmart’s 2022 Supplier of the Year within the Food category. The news was announced at the 2022 Walmart Supplier Growth Forum.…

California cherry growers turn to breeders to combat climate woes

In recent years, Kern County cherry growers were frustrated by warmer winters and hotter springs. Luckily, breeders -including locally based IFG- are working…

All-New iNTELLIPRO SAW

New fresh-cut technology solution launched

The Team at PROEX FOOD has been busy in 2022 preparing to launch a new line of equipment and technology solutions for fruit and vegetable processors and packers. “We are…

Pink-A-Boo Pineberries hit the market

International grower and year-round marketer of strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries, Wish Farms, reveals a new berry to its lineup: Pink-A-Boo Pineberries®…

Gotham Greens announces greenhouse expansion across US

Gotham Greens will double the size of its greenhouse capacity from 600,000 square feet to over 1.2 million square feet in 2022. Development is currently underway for new…

Dutch investment firm backs packaging machine manufacturer

The Dutch investment firm, Quadrum Capital, is backing JASA, also based in the Netherlands. JASA manufactures packaging machines and complete weighing and…

USDA lifts PACA reparation sanctions on Texas produce business

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that LS & CX LLC satisfied a reparation order for $73,586 issued under the Perishable Agricultural…

Special Fruit Logistica

Fruit maturity meter unveiling at Fruit Logistica 2022

Non-destructive fruit maturity meters from Felix Instruments, including the debut of its all-new Melon Quality Meter, will be showcased April 5th-7th at Berlin's Fruit…

Global Focus Australia / New Zealand

New Zealand JAZZ apples depart for global markets

The first of this season’s New Zealand-grown Jazz™ apples depart for Europe today, with approximately two million cartons (36,000 tonnes) of Jazz apples expected to be…

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BJ’s: 1st wholesale club to partner with DoorDash

The Save Mart Companies have been acquired by private equity firm

US: Wisconsin Walmart distribution center to become high-tech facilityWalmart is making a multimillion-dollar investment in high-tech automation at its regional distribution…

Federal minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau:

‘P.E.I. seed potato industry won’t reopen before next year’

This Saturday, Prince Edward Island potato farmers got a visit from the federal minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food. She stated that seed potato growers will…

Arizona producers intrigued by hemp as salad green

Arizona officials recently legalized hemp as a leafy green crop, according to Robert Masson, an assistant agricultural agent with the University of Arizona…

Update on finger limes in Florida

The Australian finger lime has created a buzz among chefs and mixologists for its caviar-like texture and flavorful pulp. The fruit also has captured interest…

Mexico City food market ready to harness power of the sun

A large fruit and vegetable market in Mexico's capital wants to spark a greener future as the world's biggest urban solar farm. Thousands of photovoltaic…

Banana growers supplying Europe launch joint statement on 'farm to fork' strategy

Members of the Association of European Banana Producers (APEV) producers from Ecuador, Colombia and Guatemala met this Monday at the Brussels Press Club to issue a joint…

Successful first kiwi plantation in Entre Rios, Argentina

“Projects move forward when there is an entrepreneurial spirit”

Governor Gustavo Bordet visited a kiwi plantation that he helped fund located on Route 14, near Concordia. "The area of Concordia area has a great variety of fruits, not only…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Guatemala cost £0.90 this week

This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale…

Fruit exporter: “We’ve come to expect delays of 7 to 21 days”

South African fruit, rotting in Cape Town Port, makes headlines

The South African fruit industry’s shipping dilemma and the role played by delays at the port of Cape Town made headline news in a Sunday newspaper this weekend, with an…

Kenyan government commissions first sweet potato processing facility in Migori

Defense Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa led a delegation from the County Government of Migori and the European Union to the official opening of the Sh117…

Henri Smit - Ametis

Reemoon enters the South African apple industry

On Ametis, the Smit family farm in the eastern Free State, apples from their 75ha of orchards used to be sorted according to weight, with grading done by human eye until three…

South African citrus growers elect new chairman

An industry leader from the Eastern Cape has been elected chairman of the Citrus Growers Association. The citrus industry contributes billions to South African…

Registration to participate in the 14th edition of Fruit Attraction 2022 is now open

The 14th edition of Fruit Attraction is set to take place in Madrid from October 4 to 6, 2022. Companies in the fruit and vegetable sector can now apply to…

The Spanish Government and shippers could soon reach an agreement

It remains difficult to get goods to their destination and there's a shortage of packaging materials

The shippers' strike called by the Platform for the Defense of National and International Road Freight Transport has already been on-going for many days, and although in some…

Technical tours during the cherry symposium

The beating heart of the International cherry symposium (May 2-6, 2022) will be the technical visits. The tours will be held on May 6, 2022 and one of them will be in the…

Pyrodiserbe, an ecological solution for disinfecting soils

The flame weeding technique has been consolidated for several years. In Italy, the company Officine Mingozzi was one of the early adopters of this method. "From the ecological…

Australian PC Strategy 2021-2030

"It's important to develop profitable and diversified value chains across protected cropping."

Hort Innovation has highlighted three key areas as part of the Australian Protected Cropping Strategy to deliver results for the sector over the next decade. Speaking at the…

NSW farmers face further flooding

New South Wales Farmers, the state's peak agricultural body is urging farmers to keep an eye out for their neighbours as fresh rainfall once again threatens…

BerriesZA CEO appoints Brent Walsh as CEO

BerriesZA is pleased to announce the appointment of Brent Walsh as CEO of BerriesZA. This appointment reflects the journey that BerriesZA has embarked on and…

Ocean market update – Indian Subcontinent & Middle East

Rising Covid-19 cases in China, largescale fuel stockouts in Sri Lanka and the situation in Ukraine

Rising Covid-19 cases in China, largescale fuel stockouts in Sri Lanka, and developments in Europe, amongst other global supply chain disruptions, have had an increasing…

Shanghai goes into a regional lockdown and the supply of fruits and vegetables is limited

Shanghai officially began to impose a regional lockdown today (March 28). On the evening of March 27, all supermarkets, stores, farmers' markets, etc. in Pudong were open only…

New ERP system Zest implemented at Vrugteboom

Vrugteboom, an international company for the import and export of fruit, has offices in Egypt, South Africa and the Netherlands. With a diverse, international team, a…

Gates Foundation and Qatar to spend $200 million on climate-adaptive agriculture

Qatar and the Gates Foundation will jointly invest up to $200 million over the next two years to help prepare farmers in developing countries to adapt to…

Southern Hemisphere Fresh Fruit Trade Congress on the 30th of March 2022

Southern Hemisphere Governments value fresh produce industry as key pillar to food security

With confirmation of Esteban Valenzuela, Agricultural Minister of Chile, Fernando Mattos Costa, Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries of Uruguay,…

Potatonewstoday.com

FAO updates global potato statistics

Dear Readers, in July 2021 I published a news article with information related to global potato statistics provided by the FAO via its FAOSTAT database for 2019. The data has…

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