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Marketing Manager EMEA UK

Controlled Environment Agriculture Sales Contractor - US

Greenhouse manager (m/f/d) Germany

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

Commercial Manager UK or Holland

Accountmanager Europe LED Cultivation

Executive Director, Stakeholder Relations & Industry Growth - Canada

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GLOBAL OVERVIEW LIMES

The global lime market is currently set for a revival, as the catering industry continues to open back up across many countries, increasing the demand for the citrus fruit.…

REGEV® ‘Hybrid’ Fungicide: Improves resistance management, reduces residue levels, increases exportability

“A sustainable solution to growers to bring residue levels down significantly”

About a dozen years ago, the reputation of biological fungicides wasn’t the best, as the effectiveness of these pesticides was simply not up to par. Today, an overwhelming…

Pink pineapples and orange-red mandarins on Valentine’s Day menus

Valentine’s Day is long associated with produce items such as strawberries. But what about pink pineapples? Or pink radicchio? “With more people being vegetarian, vegan or even…

Project44

Congestion in US ports may impact trade deficit in 2022

The San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles (POLA) and Long Beach (POLB), the first and second-largest container ports in the US respectively, have been recording a decline in…

Retailers get creative with displays for Sunday’s Super Bowl

Retailers were ready this week for shoppers to stock up on snacks and avocados for this weekend’s Super Bowl 2022. Here’s a look at what some retailers around the country did…

“Halt caused by Covid-19 lifted but expensive airfreight rates out of India worrying”

Indian mango producers eager to resume exports to US after 2-year break

Indian mango producers are excited to start exports to the United States after a 2-year break in supply caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Their mangoes have gone through fruit…

Scanning bins full of fruit down to fractions of a millimeter

Croptracker, Inc. has released its ground-breaking Harvest Quality Vision 3.0 (HQV 3.0) to simplify and accurately predict the size of harvested produce. It utilizes off the…

US apples: fewer apples in storage compared to 2021

According to the survey from US Apple, the total number of apples in storage on February 1, 2022, was 111.1 million bushels, 1.4 percent less than last…

"I will not rest until the US border is re-opened to Prince Edward Island potatoes"

Canada Ag Minister offers financial support as surplus potatoes are destroyed

Prince Edward Island (PEI) farmers put everything that they have into their crops and many families' livelihoods depend on this industry. I know the disruption…

ZIM Announces new chartering agreement for thirteen vessels

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services announced a new charter agreement with Navios Maritime Partners L.P., according to which ZIM will charter a total of thirteen container…

Special Machinery and Packaging

Marc Lodewijks, Pack11:

"Give the plastics sector the chance to find solutions"

Marc Lodewijks is advocating the next step toward sustainability in the plastics sector. Marc is the owner/director of Pack11, a Dutch company specializing in topseal film.…

Global Focus Organics

Organic celery and Chinese cabbage in high demand

"Our celery is in full production and soon the Chinese cabbage will also come into full production. At the moment, these are our top crops and the requests are quite high",…

Retail

Dreamstime

Save A Lot completes wholesale model transition

Blue Apron: Revenue losses in Q4

US: Bigger avocados at Meijer reveal grocery trend as Big Game approachesAs the Big Game approaches, produce experts at Meijer say avocados are already the leading MVP…

Infarm

Infarm expands into the US:

New Growing Center to be built in Texas

Infarm is to establish a second Growing Center in the US, in Kyle, just 20 minutes outside of downtown Austin, Texas. This marks the first step in the company’s further…

Organically Grown names new CEO

Organically Grown Company (OGC), a wholesaler and marketer of certified organic produce, announced that Brenna Davis has been named Chief Executive Officer. Davis will step into…

Peak of the Market brings on new sales manager

Peak of the Market is proud to announce that Kris Vincent has joined its team as sales manager. Kris is a proactive, enthusiastic and high-energy professional…

California might be in for another parched year

For the state of California, a wetter-than-usual December offered some hope for 2022. However, the skies have been clear ever since, which might mean another…

US farmers call for port investment at Capitol hearing

As congestion at West Coast ports continues to impede movement of California agricultural exports, stopgap measures such as a new container yard in Oakland may…

BrightFarms launches indoorsalad "crunch kits"

"Salad kits are the fastest-growing segment in packaged salads and indoor farming"

BrightFarms has launched “Crunch Kits,” a new salad kit option. Two initial kit varieties, Chickpea Caesar and Sunny Bacon, will be available in Illinois supermarkets this…

EU and US strawberry prices on the rise ahead of Valentine’s Day

The Mintec price for Spanish strawberries declined by 58% y-o-y to EUR 2.1/Kg in January 2022, whilst prices rose by 31% m-o-m in January 2022. The rise is…

More than 9,000 pallets of fresh fruit were shipped from the Chilean port of San Vicente to the United States

A total of 9,210 pallets of fresh fruit, such as blueberries, grapes, pears, and pits, bound for the port of Los Angeles in the United States have been shipped…

MustGrow reports successful postharvest treatment of stored potatoes

Control of Fusarium dry rot as well as germination suppression

Canadian company MustGrow is pleased to announce the successful disease control and sprout suppression studies on post-harvest stored potatoes conducted by an independent…

YouTube series clarifies 'e.coli mystery' after visiting US greenhouse

Video "We're about to step into the future"

E.coli is one of the most well-known bacteria, and quite often, outbreaks in the U.S. lead back to lettuce. To show how CEA-grown lettuce is different, and to help consumers…

Mexico: Michoacán avocado shipment gets police escort

Avocados have become one of the world's most prized cash crops and Mexico still accounts for more than 30% of global avocado production. However, this crop has…

Cuba exports blueberries to the Netherlands while its domestic agriculture continues to experience problems

The cultivation of blueberries for export seems to be spreading in Cuba. In 2017, the Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported that thanks to international…

The price of potatoes in Colombia in January was 140% higher than in the same month of 2021

The price of food in Colombia, including potato, one of the country's main staple products, has increased because of inflation. In January, potato prices…

Marcel Verdellen, Satori:

"Large Brazilian ginger supply putting prices under pressure"

Limes and ginger are two of Satori Holland's key products. But, exports of both are currently slow, says director Marcel Verdellen. "There's a lot of Brazilian…

@brandon1an

Nike presents ‘Avocado’ Dunk sneaker

Nike is creating a food-themed Dunk Low, and the fruit it picked should be irresistible to millennials. Images of the Dunk Low “Avocado” have surfaced, showing how the sneaker…

Idaho Potato Commission

French fry scented perfume 'Frites by Idaho'

Surprise your loved one with a potato fragrance

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Idaho Potato Commission has bottled one of the world’s most irresistible scents: fresh Idaho® Potato French fries. Frites by Idaho is a…

Rabobank

Rabobank report:

Global blueberry industry continues to expand with demand

A recent report from Rabobank, titled Consistent Quality is the New Blue, gives a glowing overview of the global blueberry industry predicting that fresh blueberry exports are…

Positive outlook for South African pear/apple season

Pears and apples already started three weeks ago and the crop looks very good. Vanguard still sees growth in the apple and pear industry that can be attributed to the…

Overcast weather and high rainfall have massively increased pest pressure

Tomato volumes 40% lower and average price is 122% higher than January 2021

Tomato prices will probably remain at a very high level for the coming months, but whether March and April will show record prices depends on further rainfall over Limpopo…

Egyptian oranges stuck in Russian ports after sudden import amendment

Over 40,000 tons of Egyptian oranges in 150 shipments are currently being held at Russian ports, pending negotiations between the two countries to allow the…

Belarus’ import ban affects EU pear exports

On January 1st, 2022, Belarus imposed a six-month ban on food imports from the EU, including fruit and vegetables. It is yet another, albeit smaller, blow to some Dutch and…

Vietnam gains strong growth in veg, fruit exports in January

Vietnam achieved a high growth rate of fruit and vegetable exports in the first month of 2022, according to the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association (Vnfruit). The fruit and…

Providing funds and goods in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami

Costa rallies for Tongan colleagues

With a large contingent of Tongan employees, Costa has rallied to provide funds and goods to support the relief effort in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami…

Patrick Meikle - Golden Bay Fruit

"The availability of freight may influence how people distribute the exports"

The New Zealand apple harvest is getting underway and volumes are looking good, recovering well from last year’s disastrous hail event. “The crop is looking good, colour, size…

AgPick Technology

The new innovative GPS-based picking app developed specifically for orchard workers

An Australian fresh produce labour management tool is expanding to the tree crop industry, with the development of an innovative automated GPS-based picking app in conjunction…

Onubafruit begins the first harvests of its new extra-early-blueberry-varieties program

"We have already marketed around 70% more raspberries than last year"

Huelva's berry campaign is in full swing. This year, the area of strawberries in the province remains the same while the area of blueberries increases slightly with new…

ASF's Berry Bikers to ride 500 miles from Edinburgh to Cardiff

At 10am this morning, 10th February 2022, over 100 cyclists left BT Murrayfield Stadium with the match ball for the Doddie Weir Cup. Their aim will be to get to the…

Trimble Ag launches virtual farm online experience for global farmers

Trimble announced the launch of its Virtual Farm, an interactive online experience for farmers across the world to immerse themselves in precision agriculture.…

Containers trapped all over the world during Chinese New Year

In the early weeks of 2022, thousands of full containers left Asian ports, ready to meet the Lunar New Year demand. However, after these containers were…

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