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Greenhouse manager (m/f/d) Germany

Breeding and Farming R&D Director (m/f/d) Germany

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Strong supplies of peppers to kick off 2022

Pepper supplies are seeing strong volumes coming out of Mexico right now. “With increased pepper acreage in Mexico, there is more supply this year than last year to support…

Fresh-cut, canned, and IQF

Automation reduces head count and helps control costs for processing industry

Just like many industries, the produce processing sector is being challenged by a lack of available labor. What are the challenges the fresh-cut/value-add, canned, and IQF…

Border vaccine mandate adds another complication to stretched supply chain

Following a three-day protest in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that Canadian truckers and other essential workers require proof of…

Florida strawberry growers relieved following weekend’s storm

Supplies of Florida strawberries are strong and growers are thankful that the weekend’s cold snap related to the winter storm on the U.S. East Coast didn’t produce any real…

Celebrating the 9th annual National Medjool Date Day

Natural Delights®, original founders of National Medjool Date Day, are taking the opportunity this February 4 to celebrate the content creators who have helped build demand…

California avocado forecast shows increase over last season

The California Avocado Commission’s 2022 pre-season forecast projects a 306-million-pound crop, which is nearly a 15 percent increase over the last fiscal year. The majority…

Postharvest containers helped create value from otherwise wasted fruit

RipeLocker, a company working in extending the postharvest life of perishables, is ramping up commercial sales of its containers to Sorbatto Fresh (formerly Blueberry Hill),…

Georgia and Florida citrus avoid major freeze damage

The Georgia and Florida citrus industries reportedly came through the Sunday morning freeze with no significant widespread damage. In Florida, temperatures in the 20s were the…

Happy 98th birthday Andy D’Arrigo

Andy D’Arrigo was born in Stockton, CA on February 1, 1924 to Stefano and Concetta D’Arrigo. Stefano, an immigrant from Messina, Sicily, arrived at the immigration station at…

Marcel van Rooijen, Trofi:

"Sky-high US prices mean Mexico stopped lime exports to Europe sooner"

The current lime market is developing remarkably positively. That is according to Trofi's Marcel van Rooijen in the Netherlands. "Prices in the United States are sky-high. So…

Special Machinery and Packaging

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FreshPlaza's February Special is on Packaging & Machinery

FreshPlaza's February Special is on Packaging & Machinery. If you are a manufacturer or supplier of machinery or packaging we would love to hear from you. You can contact us…

Global Focus Organics

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FreshPlaza's February Global Focus is on organics

FreshPlaza's February Global Focus is on organics. If you are an importer/exporter or grower of organic products we would love to hear from you. You can contact us via…

Retail

Dreamstime

AWG and IRI announced a strategic partnership to launch AWG Partner Gateway

Tops: Olympic Games for produce

US: NGA offers data analytics tool to independent grocersThe National Grocers Association aims to help independent supermarkets keep abreast of market trends and spur sales…

AFBF supports Port of Oakland expansion

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on USDA’s announcement that the agency is partnering with the Port of Oakland to build a 25-acre…

Tevel will start a pilot test in Spain, Italy, and the USA of the apple harvesting drone it plans to rent out

Smart drone for rent to harvest apples

The Tevel Aerobotics Technologies company has developed a drone to harvest apples thanks to an extension that allows it to hold, pluck, and put the apples it…

Science behind the spice

Is that chile pepper hot or not?

People who’ve made the mistake of biting into a spicy chile pepper often end up with a burning question: How can you tell if a pepper is hot or not before you taste it? The world has…

USDA partnership

US: Partnership to ease port congestion and restore disrupted shipping services

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced plans to increase capacity at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California and improve service for shippers of U.S.…

Listeria contamination in facilities and on products prompt warnings from FDA

As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted…

Argentina

Rio Negro's onion season begins with good price expectations

Last season, thousands of tons of onions ended up rotting in the field because of a lack of buyers. This new campaign, however, begins with much better…

Report on US cucumber supply - University of Arizona

85% of US fresh cucumbers are imported

Fresh cucumbers are the seventh most consumed fresh vegetable, just after bell peppers in popularity in the US. The U.S. is a major importer of cucumbers with approximately…

Shipments exceeded 5 billion dollars as of November 2021

Peruvian fruit and vegetable exports continue to grow

Peruvian fruit and vegetable exports exceeded 5,123.619 million dollars between January and November 2021, i.e. 22% more than in the same period in 2020, stated the…

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Melon pack house improves post-harvest biosecurity through water treatment

Grupo Agrolíbano is one of the largest melon growers in the world, with over 6,000 hectares of crops by the Pacific Ocean in Honduras. The company exports melons for the North…

Brazilian watermelon export earns US$7 million this season

Since August 2021 – beginning of the 2021/22 harvest – little more than 86,400 tonnes of watermelons have been exported, for about US$ 7 million according to…

Mexico becomes the world’s 7th largest supplier of agri-food products

Mexico’s agro-industrial exports will reach a total of 43,6 billion USD in 2021, the highest number recorded in 29 years. In 2022 the value of Mexican…

Gert Smit, Ursula Quinn, Christine Gosling – Hendri Pieterse Boerdery

Keeping the ship sailing: grape producer looks back on a taxing season

When you ask Gert Smit, marketing director at Hendri Pieterse Boerdery in Groblersdal about their grape season which ended last week, he takes you back to the start of the…

The new citrus fruit The Alizza Fruit™ launches in the UK, Spain and Germany

"Never before has a citrus fruit combined such notable size, organoleptic quality and juice"

A new citrus fruit is born. The ALIZZA Fruit™ is a mandarin and pummelo hybrid developed by the prestigious Volcani Institute in Israel, managed exclusively by Genesis…

Gerry Li, Vision Fresh

"Extremely long transit times currently make importing new Chinese ginger very risky"

The current fresh ginger market is somewhat complicated. "The new Chinese season has started. But the extremely long transport times are significantly affecting quality.…

Seedless lemon farming thrives in Vietnam's Long An Province

Seedless lemon farming has been thriving in Bến Lức District in the southern province of Long An, replacing ineffective sugarcane farming. The district was…

Cambodia looks to export mangoes to Europe

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ General Directorate of Agriculture has urged farmers and investors to adopt more effective off-season…

Ukraine aims to export apples to India

According to the press service of the State Food and Consumer Service, Ukrainian departments and business representatives are working to resume apple exports…

APH Group celebrates 25 year anniversary

“We just experienced a cold period of severe frost resulting in the last Elfstedentocht for the time being, a long-distance ice skating event on natural ice along the eleven…

Garlic from Voghiera - good shelf life but slow sales

The commercialization of garlic, especially PDO garlic from Voghiera, is proceeding without major hiccups. From azienda agricola Le Aie, Ettore Navarra and Alessandro…

Tuindersbelang:

“Red and white cabbage market situation provided a nice starting point”

"Things have been going well since June, when we began selling off-land," says Martin Bolhuis, Tuindersbelang's co-owner. He handles this Dutch growers association's marketing…

Stam-Schaap Agro:

“Red beets selling well”

“Sales are going well,” says Maikel Stam of Stam-Schaap Agro. This Dutch company focuses on growing, selling, and processing red beets. Maikel attributes this to the COVID-19 issues,…

Fossa Eugenia:

“Absent winter affects leek market”

“Leek price forming is underwhelming,” says Ronny Bruijnen. This Dutch growers association, Fossa Eugenia's commercial director, did not mince his words in mid-January. "The…

Russia provoked a shortage of seed potatoes in the European Union

The developments in the seed potato market of the EU countries are noteworthy. According to EastFruit analysts, prices for seed potatoes this season are much higher than…

In2Food

Growth plans underway for national fruit and vegetable wholesaler

One of Australia’s largest national fresh fruit and vegetable wholesalers is setting itself up for growth, after transitioning to new ownership late last year. In2Food…

The man who saved New Zealand's billion-dollar kiwifruit industry from disease

It is no exaggeration to say that kiwifruits have been Russell Lowe’s life. For more than 50 years as a plant scientist, the New Zealand scientist has been devoted to the…

Massive Q4 gains posted by ONE, Evergreen, Cosco, OOCL, Matson and Maersk

Container shipping has greatest quarter ever — with more to come

It’s still early in the reporting cycle, but initial announcements by ocean carriers point to history-making profits in Q4 2021, trouncing already…

Potato milk the alternative protein trend?

British supermarket chain, Waitrose, recently released its 2022 Food and Drink report in which it predicts that potato milk will be the biggest dairy…

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