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OVERVIEW GLOBAL TOMATO MARKET

The global tomato market is currently marked by uncertainty. Many growers and traders are anxious about how the demand will develop after Easter. Now tomato prices are still…

Florida peaches see a 10-15% increase in packable volumes this season

The Chilean peach season has wrapped up and the Florida crop has taken over to supply customers in the United States. Titan Farms has been growing peaches in Florida for the…

Alejandro Moralejo, CEO of Salix Fruits:

“Argentina expects to export 300,000 tons of lemons this season”

The Argentinian lemon season has officially started. Alejandro Moralejo, who is the CEO of Salix Fruits, says: “We started loading for Russia, Ukraine and Canada at the…

Demand proving a challenge for kiwis

Kiwi supplies in North America are moving along steadily. Damarys M. Crawford of Harvest Sensations in Miami, Fl. notes that the current supply of kiwis is…

Opportunity to expand product line into the lettuce segment

Sakata Seed America acquires Salinas-based Vanguard Seed

Sakata Seed America has acquired Vanguard Seed, a lettuce seed company based in the Salinas Valley. The purchase of Vanguard provides Sakata Seed America with…

Bananas continue to see even movement

When it comes to moving bananas, things are running smoothly right now. “It’s business as usual in terms of supplies from South and Central America,” says Anthony Serafino of…

Health clinics, food banks, fresh berry donations and more

Driscoll's to deploy over $4M USD to aid those affected by coronavirus

Driscoll’s will deploy more than $4 million in global charitable funds across health clinics, food banks, fresh berry donations and other community resources in response to…

Today's important COVID-19 news in the fresh produce sector

Corona-update: McCain Foods UK furloughs staff of several factories

On this last day of yet another of these unusual weeks, we are able to report on the situation in Portugal, where the government wants to rewards growers -whose fields are…

Anita Fial, the lady who championed exotic foods, dies at 87

Anita Fial, as a home economist and marketing expert, helped make Florida sweet corn, Mexican mangoes and avocados staples at green grocers. She even helped revive the demand…

Two Québec potato companies merge

Québec Parmentier is merging with Patate-Saint-Ambroise of Saguenay. The joint announcement was made by Pierre Chouinard, Chief Executive Officer of Québec…

Special South Africa

AGI Frost Fans run at 15% of the cost of similar units

There is growing demand for frost prevention fans in the agricultural sector as growers invest in high risk/high return crops such as table grapes, citrus and avocados and…

Global Focus Packing/Machinery/Fresh-Cut

The demand for packaging for agricultural food distribution grows by 25%

In March 12.5 million reusable boxes were mobilized in SpainThe demand for reusable boxes for the distribution of fresh products from the producer to the large distribution…

Retail

Buehler’s Fresh Foods launched new online tool: “Best Time to Shop”

Costco: March sales results

US: H-E-B and Favor double delivery service area statewideH-E-B and Favor Delivery have partnered up to expand service to even more Texans during the COVID-19 pandemic. This…

Canadian potato storage holdings April 1 2020

Canadian potato market changed radically in second week of March

The Canadian Potato Market was marching along at an excellent pace until the events of Covid-19. Initially, the fresh side of the industry saw rapid sales increases as…

Port Manatee

Florida port opens transfer facility, maximizing vital throughput

A new throughput-maximizing facility opened in early April at Port Manatee is helping speed shipments of fresh produce to consumers of Florida and beyond. Port…

Market and Crop Update for April 9, 2020

Central Produce, Idaho: "We were done shipping about a week ago”

MARKETIdaho-E. Oregon:Dan Phillips with Central Produce in Payette, ID, told OnionBusiness on April 8 that Central is finished for the season. “We were done…

"On our own orchards, we have seen some of the best quality apples that we have produced"

Australian JAZZ™ Apple crops delivering highly-impressive results for growers this Autumn

The first autumn harvest of JAZZ™ will be delivered to retailers nationally from this week and Managing Director Scott Montague says this year's amazing quality is a tribute…

University of Queensland - Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Australian research results in higher yielding avocados

Finally, faster and healthier avocado propagation is becoming a reality for Australian growers. A research project is striving to increase the number of…

Shipping companies could have losses of up to $ 23 billion in 2020

The Wall Street Journal has reported that shipping lines have canceled more than 160 itineraries in the past week, trying to sustain freight rates against potential losses of…

Tony Derwael, Bel’Export

"Demand for Belgian top fruit is skyrocketing"

“We have never been so busy before, " says Bel’Export's Tony Derwael. “We work through the night, every night. We need to fill orders. The volumes being demanded are higher…

"There's a very high demand from Europe for lemons and oranges"

A little over a month ago, the world looked entirely different for Egyptian citrus exporters. Demand has shifted, and not just from European countries. There are more than…

FreshCup LLC extends its machine catalogue by two new pressing processes

"Our optimized juice squeezers boost retail sales"

German supplier FreshCup has again managed to expand its catalogue with two innovative juice squeezers. An apple juice press and an orange juice press are now being launched…

Greek cherry packer sees positives in challenging times

“We expect to pack 25 per cent more cherries than we did last year”

The cherries in Greece are heading towards a promising season for cherry packer Yaka IKE. Demand is rising all over the world and those supplying the supermarkets are less…

Contec srl president Fabrizio Raccanello

Protecting crops an essential element of the food chain

The Coronavirus is teaching us things we could have learned before had we just stopped to think: there are no insurmountable borders, the human species wanders, the planet is…

Rida Trade Netherlands b.v. donate 20.000 masks to Red Cross

“Huge increase in ginger consumption despite higher prices”

Due to the COVID-19 spread in Europe countries, Ginger has turned into a hot product on the shelf in the last few weeks. “Big demand has created a huge market and prices are…

Spanish watermelon campaign kicks off in Almería

"The situation in the watermelon market is not very encouraging"

The first watermelons have already started to be harvested in the greenhouses of Almería, although in very limited quantities, as the bad weather of recent weeks has delayed…

UK lockdown complicates potato planting decisions

The uncertainty regarding the length of the coronavirus lockdown and an overhang of processing material since restaurants, canteens and other food service…

Global sea trade: Blanked sailings rise more than 400% in a week

Over the course of the next few weeks, carriers will know what kind of losses they will make over the course of the year. Further wide ranging capacity cuts…

Henk van der Meij, Hars & Hagebauer:

"Easter demand revives mango market after weeks of disappointing sales"

Things currently look unsure on the mango market. "Sales have been disappointing for weeks. The market is, however, stabilizing now. But, the medium-term prospects still look…

Summary overview – Marketing year 2019/20

EU apple stocks – market situation

Regarding the EU market situation, experts have determined that, as expected from a moderate crop, prices during the ongoing campaign are moving within ranges significantly…

Eucofel calls on the EU to reopen the Russian market to European fruits and veg

The FruitVegetablesEurope association (Eucofel), which brings together national and regional federations and companies from Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and…

Hein Smal - MOR South Africa

The South African Sharon Fruit season kicks off with good demand

The new Sharon Fruit harvest kicked off last week, a week or more earlier than usual, to the relief of buyers at the Johannesburg and Pretoria fresh produce markets, always…

"The Chinese Fresh Wu tangerine enjoyed and abundant harvest and is expected to sell well"

The "Fresh Wu" tangerine is a new variety that is grown in Wuxuan county in Guangxi province. The fruit flesh of this tangerine variety is supple and strong. The fruit peel is…

"First grape harvest from Yunnan enters the Chinese market in small volumes"

The Chinese fruit market is currently recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic. The overall market trend shows a growth in purchase volumes for…

Chinese market price for Hainan mangoes is stable

The price of mangoes from Hainan dropped slightly after the Tomb-Sweeping Festival [4 April, 2020] was over. The end of the season is still some distance in…

ECLAC

Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean are forecast to drop in 2020

According to a special report on COVID-19 prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), this region faces the pandemic from a weaker…

Peru exports a record volume of fresh mango in the 2019/2020 campaign

According to the Peruvian Association of Mango Producers and Exporters (APEM), the country exported a record volume of 233,000 tons of fresh mango in the 2019/2020 campaign, a…

New form of retail in Venezuela leads to increased imports

A new kind of store called a Bodegon has sprung up in Venezuela. These exist side by side with traditional supermarkets and bodegas in that country. These…

Brazilian growers release season’s final orange crop forecast

Brazilian sources reported they will produce 386.79 million boxes of oranges in the 2019–20 season. This is the final forecast for the season and includes…

Bangladesh border: Over 7,000 tons of essential food items held up

Tons of essential food items, including fruits and vegetables, which are to be exported to Bangladesh, have been stuck at the border in Mahadipur in West…

India: Gale hits banana crop in Tiruchi and Karur districts

Gusty winds that accompanied the short spell of summer rain on Wednesday felled the standing banana crops -many of them bearing fruits, ready for the harvest-…

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