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Less foodservice demand for passionfruit affects pricing minimally

Supplies of passionfruit right now are solid. “We have a good supply of passionfruit. We have enough volume to cover all of the demand and a bit more,” says Frank Martinez of…

British Columbia helps fund blueberry growers against US trade commission investigation

British Columbia is set on making a financial contribution to help blueberry farmers fight an upcoming trade investigation in the US over imported berries,…

PMA executive departs to lead peanut industry organization

Produce Marketing Association’s Richard Owen will leave his position to become the next president and CEO of the American Peanut Council. His position with the…

Agriculture and business coalitions challenge Cal/OSHA emergency standards

A coalition of Californian agricultural and business employers, including the Western Growers Association and the California Farm Bureau Association, have…

Canada: Haskap berry as growing trend in Okanagan and beyond

As awareness for the haskap berry is growing, this superfood is catching on in the Thompson Okanagan. Mel Kozun, co-owner of Summerland Haskap, has roughly…

Canadian apple company introduces biodegradable packaging

New packaging has been launched for Red Prince apples, a Canadian apple grown by the Blue Mountain Fruit Co. that’s harvested in the fall but not sold until the winter. The…

Wisconsin: Cranberry growers see smaller crop than expected

Wisconsin cranberry growers say the weather ended up having the biggest impact on the 2020 crop. In September, the USDA predicted Wisconsin’s cranberry crop…

New potato campaign celebrates “the little things”

It was the little wins, the little celebrations, the little things that helped people get through an unparalleled year in 2020. And those little things…

Berry executive joins global importer/exporter’s advisory board

Long-time berry industry executive Felipe Juillerat has joined the advisory board of global fresh fruit company Terra Exports. Juillerat, best known for his…

Americold Realty Trust closes acquisition of Agro Merchants Group

Americold Realty Trust, a publicly traded REIT focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition, and development of temperature-controlled warehouses, today…

Special Latin America

Marco Ortega, commercial director of Kion Export: "We have increased planting by 15% for 2021"

The boom in the global demand for organic ginger is strengthening Peru as a supplier

Peru has been gaining ground in the global ginger market in recent years and become the world's fourth largest exporter of this vegetable, whose demand has experienced a…

Global Focus Grapes

ASOEX's first estimate for the 2020/21 season

"Chilean table grape exports will grow by almost 13%"

The President of the Association of Fruit Exporters of Chile AG (ASOEX), Ronald Bown Fernandez, stated that last week, the export grape industry had made this…

Retail

Dreamstime

Giant Co. has launched a new initiative to help local public schools across its market area

Sprouts Farmers Market has launched portobello mushrooms and pea protein burgers

U.S. holiday retail sales rise 3% as online shopping booms - Mastercard reportU.S. retail sales rose 3% during this year’s expanded holiday shopping season from October 11 to…

Chipotle launches cauliflower rice nationwide

Yesterday, Chipotle Mexican Grill began offering a cauliflower rice option. The rice substitute is made with grilled cauliflower, cilantro, lime and salt and…

New rules for Idaho potato field quarantines

USDA officials have released a new plan to deal with a microscopic pest in south-eastern Idaho that threatens the state's billion-dollar industry. Last week,…

US cherry industry working to open export opportunities to Taiwan

US cherry farmers started 2020 with a disappointing decision from the International Trade Commission on imports from Turkey. Now, they’ve ended the year with…

US: Incentives proved unproductive in Delaware Del Monte project

Nearly four years after Del Monte Fresh Produce bought the Pencader Corporate Center building for $6.5 million, it has again sold it to ChristianaCare for $7.5…

US: Federal judge blocks H-2A wage rate freeze, reforms

A federal judge is withholding the Trump administration from carrying out changes to the H-2A minimum wage rates that would hold down annual pay increases,…

Huanglongbing bacteria found on insects in San Diego

Californian state agricultural inspectors have detected bacteria which can cause a disease deadly to citrus trees during routine pest trapping in Fallbrook,…

Heavy rain damages Orange River grape crop, while Western Cape is unaffected

Heavy rainfall in the Northern Cape – over 100mm over the past two days in some places – has gladdened the hearts of most in this arid area, but for the table grape producers…

The United States simplifies the entry of cucurbits from Panama

The National Director of Plant Health of the Ministry of Agricultural Development, Olegh Aguilar, stated that the United States had eased the requirements for…

Ecuadorian bananas start 2021 with a new price scheme

The new scheme for setting the price of a box of bananas for export in Ecuador, which was approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) at the…

Mexican orange cultivation faces difficult recovery this year

Mexican orange production is expected to partially recover in 2020/21 after drought cut last year's harvest by nearly 40%. A full recovery is unlikely as the…

Precision Agriculture: Drones detecting infected citrus trees create new opportunities

Israeli company Agrowing Ltd. has already established itself when it comes to enabling powerful horticultural tools. The provider of AI-enabling multispectral…

Roland Wirth, FRIGOTEC Kälte- und Verfahrenstechnik LLC:

"Softripe is more than an alternative to coating processes"

A truly extraordinary year has drawn to a close. In many places, companies are looking back on a turbulent year, in which the COVID pandemic has brought many challenges. For…

WAPA

WAPA - Final stock figures December

WAPA have updated that latest apple and pear production figures. The December 2020 final stock figures for the Northern Hemisphere are now available on the WAPA website

A video shows the creation of artificial rain by Contec Srl

New irrigation system with concrete poles

For the company Contec, 2021 will be a year marked by innovation. Indeed, an innovative system for creating artificial rain is being developed and new subsidiaries will be…

Yuksel Catalog

New tomato, pepper, cucumber, and eggplant varieties

Yuksel Seeds presents new innovations to its extensive catalog of varieties, with a strong focus on pear tomatoes, a segment in which its Marcus F1 variety is well-known…

DBV Situation Report 2019/20:

Market power of the food trade is truly great

Food retailing in Germany is the largest sales channel for German food manufacturers. It achieved sales -including non-foodstuffs- of €252.7 billion in 2019. This is 2.0% more…

UK: Many orders were running 24 hours late on the first day of the new Brexit trade agreement

Traders at London’s wholesale fruit and vegetables market, New Spitalfields, said yesterday food had been getting through from the continent but that many…

Scotty Brand cuts 27 tons of plastic from its packaging

Scottish potato business Scotty Brand has cut almost 27 tons of plastic from its packaging in a year. The company said it introduced a slew of plastic-saving…

Quantitative challenge

Please note: when ordering sprouts from @Tesco online, quantity 1 does not mean 1 bag of sprouts. It means 1 sprout. Thank you and good night pic.twitter.com/gATF5jGRpj —…

EU amends maximum residue limits for pesticides in certain products

According to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 [1], Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) are the upper levels of pesticide residues that are legally permissible in, or on,…

Robert Doig - Caledonian Potatoes

EU derogation to export seed potatoes into the UK - "a manifest injustice"

Discussions have been ongoing with the European Commission on the subject of third country equivalence for plant reproductive material, plant health…

AMIA - Crop Forecasts

Australian mangoes hit Christmas peak as many regions begin winding down crop harvests

The Australian mango industry experienced its December peak in the week leading into Christmas. National crop forecast figures, released by the Australian Mango Industry…

"There is a risk that a significant portion of apples will spoil in storage"

"Chinese apple reserve sets historical record"

The apple harvest of 2020 is already stored in warehouses. Farmers maintained a high asking price and were were unwilling to sell, which led to the volume in storage reaching…

Caused by pandemic

Japan: Growers struggle with vegetable oversupply & tumbling prices

Japan's third wave of COVID-19 infections has subdued traditional end-of-year activities. This means consumption is down and prices for farm produce have…

Prices likely to remain under pressure

Higher acreage and better potato yields in Bengal & Uttar Pradesh

Potato production across the major growing States of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and West Bengal is likely to be higher this year on the back of an increase in the…

Chinese Fresh-key IoT monitoring equipment provides an excellent escort for cherry transport!

The outbreak of Covid-19 in the period leading up to Chinese Spring Festival [25 January, 2020] made it nearly impossible to go out and buy fresh fruit or to visit friends and…

Enabled through combined efforts of APEDA and state officials

Eastern Uttar Pradesh: Fruit and vegetable exports branched out amid COVID crisis

As many Indian vegetable growers were facing losses due to dip in prices of their produce in local markets during the pandemic, some of them made inroads into…

Blueberries and sunflowers as two top Ethiopian agricultural opportunities

Nuradin Osman is the founder and CEO of Grosso Foods, an Africa-focused agribusiness company with its headquarters in the Netherlands. According to Osman, the…

Ghana-UK statements on Continuity Trade Agreement

Ghana intent on affirming Post-Brexit trade deal with UK

The first consignment of Ghanaian shipments to the UK to encounter post-Brexit tariffs docked at Portsmouth last night, including 185 tons of bananas. Because…

Police officer foils avocado heist in central Israel

Israeli police officials have announced that they arrested a suspect last Saturday who was trying to steal 680 kilograms of avocados from a kibbutz in the…

International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021

The FAO has just launched the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables. Throughout 2021, several activities and events will be organized all over the world…

Ukraine was one of the largest importers of potatoes in 2020

Ukraine is officially considered to be one of the three leaders in the production of potatoes, while at the same time being one of the largest importers of…

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