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Laboratory Manager: Nematology - Stevensville (ON) Canada

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Head Grower - Niagara-on-the-Lake (ON) Canada

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Summary Grape Quality Summit

Examining the grape sector from vine to shelf

Consumers looking for consistency and quality. The importance of post-harvest technology. How COVID affected the movement of grapes. These are a few themes that emerged during…

Brazilian ginger prices up more than 100 percent in three weeks

Supplies of ginger are slim currently. “Our supplies of ginger are from Brazil and the volume is significantly lower. There’s approximately 50 percent less compared to last…

SmartCitrus is a program to optimise the supply chain and the quality of the fruit and minimise waste

AgroFresh is well-known in the industry for their pre and post-harvest solutions for fresh produce. The company has recently introduced some new products on the market, one of…

USDA

U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement seasonal perishable products - weekly update

'Rates for air and ground transport keep rising, along with fuel prices'

US consumers are again seeing a scarcity of certain goods on store shelves as transportation shortages continue on a global scale. Sea ports all over the world are struggling…

Idahopotato.com

Jamey Higham named President & CEO of Idaho Potato Commission

Produce industry veteran Jamey Higham will become the next president and CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission, effective in early 2022. He will replace the…

Under federal marketing order for Tomatoes Grown in Florida

USDA reapportions membership on the Florida Tomato Committee

Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a final rule that reapportions membership on the Florida Tomato Committee under the federal marketing…

1-2 December 2021

Organic Grower Summit on growing and selling in Mexican organic market announced

With Mexico’s promotion of organic agriculture leading to a growing domestic market and creating import opportunities for U.S. growers, a just-announced educational session at…

Verdeflor, the Peruvian packaging company, expands its facilities for the blueberry, avocado, and citrus campaigns

"We have the capacity to process 1200 kilos/hour, which means we can have one container ready per shift"

Peru's blueberry export campaign has already started and the opening of new markets, such as India and Malaysia, starting this year offer producers better prospects, as they…

Job Offers:

Laboratory Manager: Nematology - Stevensville (ON) Canada

National Potato Council announces new event: Washington Summit

U.S. potato growers and industry partners from around the country are invited to the nation’s capital for the new NPC Washington Summit, Feb. 28-March 3, 2022,…

USDA lifts PACA reparation sanctions on California produce business

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Espirit Trading Inc. satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $26,990 issued under the Perishable…

Special Avocados

Juan Antonio García Romero, manager of Viveros Grajera, from Huelva:

"We are the first in the world to get avocado plants grafted on clonal rootstocks from in vitro culture"

The demand for avocado plants continues to increase as the popularity and consumption of this fruit keep growing worldwide. While the avocado plants sold until now were…

Global Focus Top Fruit

CREA Forlì

New pear varieties to relaunch the sector

When it comes to pears, varietal innovation goes through CREA. The latest cultivar to be introduced is called CREA 194. "It derives from Carmen pears and boasts constant high…

Retail

Dreamstime

Dollar Tree Inc. plans to hire thousands of associates

Walmart: Text to Shop beta test

US: Grocery retail sales climb 7.5% in SeptemberLifted in part by inflation, grocery sales grew 7.5% year over year in September amid a double-digit gain in overall U.S.…

Alberta Potato Conference cancelled

The Potato Growers of Alberta recently announced that they have had to decide to cancel the upcoming Alberta Potato Conference and Tradeshow. It was to be held…

High expectations in Biobío Region

Chilean fruit exports to China increasing

According to the study carried out by the Office of Agrarian Studies and Policies (Odepa), shipments of cherries expanded by almost 37% compared to the…

IQonsulting

Chilean Blueberry Committee Crop & Exports Report. Week 40

'Novelty of the week was first shipment of 4 tons of organic blueberries to Far East'

The season started six weeks ago and is progressing steadily, this implies that the volumes accumulated since the beginning have exceeded those exported in previous seasons…

Market conditions remain depressed

Chinese lemons enter new export season

The new lemon season began when fresh lemons entered the market in the middle of September. The harvest season is expected to last until late December. Production areas…

India-based AVI Global Plast introduces 100% recycled PET punnets safe for food-contact

Food safety and hygiene are top priorities for considering use of post-consumer recycled (PCR) content in food packaging. When AVI Global Plast introduced 80 to 90% recycled…

Frank Mosterd, GIlad Produce, NL:

"I expect the high gas prices will deter Israel from sending huge bell pepper volumes"

It is almost time for the Israeli bell pepper season at Gilad Produce in the Netherlands (which also produces in Spain, Israel, and Mexico) which starts at the end of…

Naïo Technologies unveils plans for international expansion in agricultural robotics market

Naïo Technologies, a company in agricultural robotics for nearly 10 years, is accelerating its international development strategy, moving beyond the context of technological…

40% drop in persimmon volumes

With 350 hectares, Agrintesa is a leading persimmon producer and trader. This year, however, a considerable drop in production is expected. FreshPlaza talked about it with…

Jaime Mendizabal, commercial director of Maf Roda:

"Investing in automation is key for Spain to cope with increasing competition from third countries"

Producing and marketing companies have been investing more in process automation and the implementation of new technologies for sorting and grading fruit since the advent of…

“This will inevitably impact selling prices for the consumer”

The ban on plastic packaging is not well received by the sector

As of January 1st 2022, fruit and vegetables can no longer be sold in plastic packaging, with a few exceptions. For Jean-François Not, president of the Ille-Fruits…

Graziano Defilippis, of Polar Fruit Europa:

"We are the only sales office for the Blanc Seedless grapes produced in Europe"

The table grape campaign is in full swing in Spain, and pending the possible consequences of unexpected meteorological instability, the national production is expected to…

Dennis Rösch, Mona Lisa Großhandel Ltd:

"In my opinion, bananas from Colombia are among the best"

Mona Lisa Großhandel Ltd from Bremen offers bananas from South America, besides fruits and vegetables from the Balkans, Greece, Italy and Spain. Over the summer, according to…

William Nannes, J.P. Beemsterboer Food Traders: "What will the stats show later this month?"

"Hard-pressed to fill orders on the onion market"

Onion exports seemed a little calmer last week and this week. That is according to William Nannes of J.P. Beemsterboer Food Traders in the Netherlands. A reasonable amount of…

CMA CGM and BigCommerce: a partnership to develop online solutions

BigCommerce, an open SaaS (Software as a Service) platform offering its services to growing companies as well as already established brands, the CMA CGM Group,…

Azerbaijan hopes to more than double apple exports to Russia

Chairman of the Food Safety Agency of Azerbaijan Goshgar Tahmazli has stated that approximately 70 Azerbaijani enterprises plan to export 153,397 tons of…

Aiming to create predictive model for food freshness and remaining shelf-life

Maersk participates in food waste project with Wageningen University and customers

Every year, 13% of the global fresh produce is lost in the cold supply chain, between harvest and retailer. With an accurate, real-time prediction of remaining…

Georgian table grapes show great potential for domestic and foreign markets

Sartichala Vineyard Management LLC is one of the biggest growers of modern table grape varieties in the Republic of Georgia. The company owns a 30-ha table…

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