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Managing Director - Holland

Farm Manager - Abu Dhabi

Farm Manager greenhouse vegetable production – Vietnam

COO Flower & Plant greenhouse production farm, Vietnam

Sales Representative - Leamington (Ontario) Canada

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Commercial Manager | Huelva, Spain | Soft Fruits

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Prices higher on US domestic sweet potatoes

Reports of domestic sweet potatoes supplies across the country are mixed. “In Louisiana, as far as the year-round supply, it is tight. There is no carry over from last year…

Anti-dumping tariffs continue to influence N.A. garlic supplies

Following an increase of tariffs on imported garlic from China in May of this year to 25 percent (from 10 percent in 2018) the garlic picture in North America right now looks…

Pricing on imported green seedless grapes expected to stay high until after Christmas

As the year is coming to an end, so is the California grape season. The latest USDA storage report indicates that the volumes should be enough to supply the US market through…

WA Apple Commission proposes new specialty apple license plate

The Washington Apple Commission is proposing a new Washington specialty license plate to celebrate Washington apples, the state’s leading agricultural commodity and support…

US House of Representatives passes the Farm Workforce Modernization Act

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act passed the House of Representatives with a strong bipartisan vote of 260-165. The legislation includes provisions to…

Avocados From Mexico announces its return to Super Bowl

In 2019, the U.S. has imported more than 2.1 billion pounds of Mexican avocados—of which more than 285 million pounds were imported the five weeks prior to the…

US (VA): AeroFarms to build 150,000 square feet farm in Danville

Governor Ralph Northam announced that AeroFarms will invest $42 million to build their largest indoor vertical farm to date in the Cane Creek Centre, a joint industrial park…

Wonderful Citrus announces new president for 2020

Wonderful Citrus announced that Zak Laffite will become its new president, effective January 1, 2020. Laffite will assume the position previously held for 20 years by David…

USDA restricts PACA violators in California and Virginia from operating in produce industry

As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the…

FDA update

Second retailer named in update on US hepatitis A outbreak

Two more patients have been confirmed and a second retailer has been named in relation to an outbreak of hepatitis A, that has been associated with fresh…

Global Focus Exotic/Tropical Fruit

Lady Jane mangoes will release next week

Australian produce company Nutrano Produce Group is excited about the release of its new Lady Jane mangoes in store next week. “Our farm team have been monitoring the Lady…

Retail

UNFI: Q1 fiscal 2020 results

Kroger and Walgreens: New joint venture

US: H-E-B mobile app gets makeoverH-E-B has rolled out its new My H-E-B mobile app to make it easier for customers to shop on their phones or tablets. “The new My H-E-B mobile…

US tomato import restrictions could cause prices to rise

All tomato imports from Mexico, Israel, the Netherlands, and Canada will be inspected for signs of tomato brown rugose fruit virus. The price of tomatoes could…

Optimum continues to expand its activity in the United States

The world's leading agricultural company, Optimum Agriculture, has recently announced the acquisition of 2,261 hectares of farmland, new processing facilities,…

Perceptable shift to cherries from Chile

China: Craze for American cherries dies down due to trade war

Years ago, cherries from the state of Washington were among the top-selling US products on China's premium e-commerce site Tmall. This year on the same…

Market and Crop Update for December 12, 2019

"California's Latin American onion sales are good until end of this week"

MARKETCalifornia:Robert Bell with Western Onion Sales in Camarillo said on Dec. 11 that markets were at $6. He said, “We have good Latin American business that…

Meanwhile, in Grapefruit County...

Truck spills grapefruit on turnpike ramp Orange County, California

A truck spilled its cargo of grapefruit on an interchange last Wednesday afternoon in Orange County. The incident was reported on the ramp linking Florida’s Turnpike and West…

Rijk Zwaan launches new snack brand SN!BS

Rijk Zwaan has a clear long-term goal: a healthy future. To achieve maximum impact in the chain, the vegetable breeding company based in the Dutch town of De Lier is a strong…

Weekly Argentinian blueberry shipments – all destinations

Total blueberry shipments Argentina peaked in last few weeks

Last week’s Argentinian blueberry shipments to the US, by air and by sea, amounted to 415 tons. The same numbers for export to the EU, Asia and Canada were 96 tons, 20 tons…

Ecuador to implement a phytosanitary software to prevent the entry of Fusarium disease

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Ecuador (MAG), together with the Animal Plant Health Regulation and Control Agency (Agrocalidad), will implement a…

Mexican bananas officially open the Chinese market

The Chinese General Administration of Customs (GAC) posted the "Announcement regarding the Quarantine Requirements for Imported Bananas from Mexico" on…

Peru launches an agricultural productive reconversion project

Peru's Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation has approved four Agricultural Productive Reconversion Projects (PRPA) that will allow 54 farming families of Ica and Piura to…

The Mexican state of Morelos seeks to boost exports to Europe

The Secretary of Agricultural Development, Margarita Galeana Torres, stated that the Mexican state of Morelos was preparing a round of trade missions, which would start in…

"Our green crispy plum sales are stable this season, but the price is higher than other plums"

"Our company was established in 2015. We currently manage more than 400 hectares (private + cooperative plantations). We spent three years on standardization to prepare for…

"Holiday season will stimulate export"

"Export price of Chinese garlic began to show downward trend this week"

"The price of Chinese garlic has experienced a number fluctuations in the last few months. In October the price began to climb and this trend continued until this week when…

Chinese pepper production shows remarkable growth

"The three largest pepper production areas in China enjoyed an abundant harvest this year. The supply volume is more than sufficient, which means that the price somewhat…

Industry still lobbying to lower tariffs South Korea

Philippines banana exports up 41%

According to numbers from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the nation’s banana exports totaled 3.593 million tons in the first 10 months of 2019, up…

Carolina Reaper

World's hottest peppers to be found under the Serbian snow

The Serbian December snow hasn't stopped Aleksandar Tanic from cultivating his scorching-hot crop: crinkly chili peppers that are considered the spiciest on…

USDA - 2019 apple update

South Korean apple production projected to increase

In marketing year 2019/20 (July – June), Korea’s fresh apple production is projected to increase seven percent to 508,000 tons, mainly due to favorable weather during the…

Maersk expands in North Vietnam with opening of new logistics centre

On December 11th, 2019, the official opening ceremony for the new logistics centre took place in Bac Ninh, Vietnam in the presence of Danish Ambassador to Vietnam Mr. Kim…

Jörg Sturmberg, JERSA Fruchtimport LLC about the current market:

"High failure rates in order to maintain required garlic quality standards."

It is not a bad time for garlic on the German market at the moment. The product has staying power and expects another sales peak at Christmas. This is explained by Jörg…

International Strawberry Symposium 2020, topics and speakers officially announced

The panel of speakers and the topics of the 9th edition of the International Strawberry Symposium, scheduled to take place in Rimini from 2 to 6 May 2020, have recently been…

Bad table grape season for the second year running

Now that the Sicilian table grape campaign is practically over, the time has come to make an assessment. FreshPlaza contacted the president of Consorzio di tutela dell'uva di…

Adelita raspberries increasingly successful

In 2010, Compagnia delle Primizie, a company located in Policoro (Matera), started an initial experimental phase for the production of raspberries of the Adelita variety, a…

Bulbi' Mix - garlic and shallot together for the first time

Garlic prices are around 20% higher than last year. Spain is the protagonist when it comes to sales on the Italian market. Quality and quantities are in line with the past…

Prices remain low in the European markets

10% rise in Spanish garlic exports, despite lower production

The Spanish garlic harvest came to a close in late August with a production totaling about 280,000 tons and the acreage reduced by around 20%. This trend was most noticeable…

Dramatic situation for Spanish kaki producers and marketers

Kakis have been left on the trees because it is not profitable to harvest them, and no one seems to be showing any interest in buying them. The situation for Spanish producers…

New Dynamic Liner System launched

The fully integrated Dynamic Liner System (DLS) is PerfoTec’s new technology that manufactures modified atmosphere liner bags, for bulk packaging, at source. Fresh produce…

FruitSpec

An Israeli company develops an automated solution for estimating agricultural performance

FruitSpec, a new Israeli company, seeks to revolutionize the world of fruit production, which covers more than 45 million hectares worldwide, by automating the estimation of…

The challenges of IQF freezing raspberries

One of the more challenging products to IQF freeze is the raspberry. This has everything to do with its brittle and delicate texture. With the correct…

World Potato Congress Inc. announces new international advisor in Kenya

The World Potato Congress has announced that Mr. Wachira Kaguongo has accepted to become the World Potato Congress Inc.’s (WPC) newest International Advisor.…

Jacques Beukes, Modderdrift Table Grapes

UK retailers welcome early Hex River grape harvest

“For the first time ever, grapes are picked on 11 December in the Hex River Valley,” says Jacques Beukes of Modderdrift Boerdery, a table grape grower-exporter outside De…

Citrus Growers’ Association Cultivar Company cautious of more late mandarin or lemon plantings

South African soft citrus plantings set to overtake navel hectares

South African growers have added just under 25,000ha of citrus groves over the past decade. Newly planted citrus orchard in Limpopo Province The South African citrus industry…

Seth Holmes - Desert Fruit Namibia

"We ship fresh and allow our dates to ripen at the consumer"

Desert Fruit Namibia, a date farm which actively farms and markets speciality varieties including Medjool, Zamli, Khallas and Barhi. Desert Fruit is confidence of a good…

“As a symbol of prosperity”

Date palm listed by UNESCO

The date palm, which was recognised by UNESCO on Wednesday, has for centuries played an important role in the establishment and growth of civilisations in the hot and dry…

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