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Farm Manager greenhouse vegetable production – Vietnam

COO Flower & Plant greenhouse production farm, Vietnam

Sales Representative - Leamington (Ontario) Canada

Assistant Production & Plant Health Manager

Commercial Manager | Huelva, Spain | Soft Fruits

Head of International Farming

Sr. Productinnovatie (R&D) Engineer

Aftersales Coördinator

Maintenance Manager - Morehead (KY) USA

Grower - Morehead (KY) USA

Better and more California bok choy this season

Supplies of California bok choy look good right now. “We have very very good supplies of bok choy,” says Frank Ratto of Ratto Bros Inc. in Modesto, Ca., where supplies are…

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Farm Manager greenhouse vegetable production – Vietnam

High sugar snap prices expected to go down as Guatemalan volumes increase

Sugar snaps are imported to the U.S. from various origins, and the Guatemalan season has just kicked off. Growers Are Us is located in Miami and imports the product almost…

Apeel & Nature's Pride debut longer lasting produce in Europe

Apeel Sciences and Nature's Pride announced that Apeel avocados are now on store shelves in Europe. As Apeel’s supply partner in Europe, Nature’s Pride has integrated the…

Lorenz Hartmann de Barros joins HLB Tropical Food

The German tropical fruit importer and distributor HLB Tropical Food GmbH is announcing some major personnel changes in its Kelsterbach headquarters. A few…

SF Express

Customized perishable logistics service from North and South America to China

On November 26 and December 4, two SF Express cargo freighters, each carrying 103 tons of cherries, arrived in China from Santiago. After its timely arrival,…

California citrus growers face new contractor rules

Citrus growers in California need to re-evaluate their working relationships with independent contractors, ensuring they follow new state regulations that redefine who is an…

US victims at least at 102

Salinas Romaine E. coli strikes two people in Canada

Since November 22, 2019, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has identified one additional E. coli illness in Canada with a similar genetic fingerprint…

Washington state - US

New apple packing plant near Yakima

The latest totally new world-class apple packing plant in the Pacific Northwest opened this fall on the southwestern edge of Union Gap, just south of Yakima.…

Tailor Cut Produce recalls cut fruit mix because of possible health risk

Tailor Cut Produce of New Jersey, is recalling its Fruit luau, cut honeydew, cut cantaloupe and cut pineapple products because they have the potential to be contaminated with…

New breeds of pumpkins, Calabazas making headway

Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Shultz yielded popularity to an almighty pumpkin in the 1966 animated TV Special “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.” Today, pumpkin…

Special Year Overview

Australia: Drought and fires

2019 has been another tough year for Australian farmers. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, 2018 was the third hottest year on record for the nation, as rainfall…

Global Focus Exotic/Tropical Fruit

Remco Tielen starts Growers and More's retail division

"We are well on our way to meeting our clients demands for year-round exotics"

Remco Tielen started as Growers and More's Account Manager this week. This firm is based in Ridderkerk, the Netherlands. Remco began his career in the frozen…

Retail

Publix: GreenWise concept expansion

UNFI: Definitive agreements to sell 13 Shoppers Food stores

US: Alfalfa’s Local Market provides incubator for Colorado-made productsAlfalfa’s Local Market, an independent grocer with two locations in Boulder and Louisville, Colorado,…

Advertised prices for specialty crops at major retail outlets

US retail turns to Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year

US retailers quickly rebounded from Thanksgiving promotions and turned to Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s. Poinsettias and evergreen wreaths decorated stores and ad flyers…

Banana taped to wall which sold for $120,000 was eaten

"It's very delicious," performance artist David Datuna wrote on Instagram after eating one edition of the now famous banana art. The piece sold for $120,000 just last week -…

Canadian potato production in 2019 up by 2.4%

Statistics Canada has estimated Canadian potato production in 2019 to be up 2.4% or 2,472,000 hundred weight above the 5-yr average in Canada. With demand growing for potato…

Peruvian citrus sector awaiting renewal of the Law for the Promotion of Agriculture

Peru has succeeded in positioning itself as a major player in the citrus market, alongside China, Brazil, India, Mexico, the United States and Spain. Luis Olivares, president…

Mexico, the new destination for Peruvian mango

Mexico has become a new destination market for the Peruvian mango from Piura, which is expected to ship its first tons to this market next week. Representatives of the…

"The effects of this drought will reverberate through entire communities for a very long time"

Australia's long-running drought is continuing to take its toll on Queensland growers, with the 2019–20 total value for primary industry commodities forecast to be $17.8…

"Overall price of Chinese pears is gradually rising"

"We are already in December and the price of fresh pears is gradually rising, but the sales volume is still small. The price is likely to slightly rise even further during the…

"'Carrot watermelons' and 'tomato watermelons' meet Chinese consumer demand for healthy foods"

"We carried out market research on more than 100 fruit varieties between 2015 and 2017. We have decided to promote two new varieties in the 'Uncle Ma's Melon'-series: Carotene…

"The holiday period started a peak export period for Chinese garlic"

"The Chinese garlic price has experienced significant fluctuations in the last few months. In the period before traders began to stock their refrigerated warehouses with…

Hong Kong welcomes this season's first shipping container of cherries

Hong Kong welcomed this season's first shipping container of cherries on December 6th. Mr. Huang Yulin of Guangzhou Chun Wan Yi Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. recently…

Alexis Dequidt, Touquet Savour:

“Current potato prices are not linked to a good consumption level”

“I would say that this year, on a scale from 0 to 10, the quality is 6 and the price 6.5,” says Alexis Dequidt, marketing and communication director of Touquet Savour, about…

Christmas atmosphere at Frischezentrum Aschaffenburg:

"Medjool dates are very popular, despite high prices."

Dates are increasingly becoming a standard product within the German trade. The sweet exotics benefit from a growing preference for a healthy diet and the increasingly…

Christian Gimperlein: "Up to 80% of our winter products end up in regional grocery stores or discount stores".

Slow market for organic cress, Christmas business only to start in week 51

Regionally cultivated cress are well received by German consumers all year round. In spring in particular, more cress is sold, while demand in winter is usually somewhat…

Colourful salads, red cabbage and physalis to decorate the Christmas table

Christmas sales still hardly noticeable in North German gastronomy

Within North German gastronomy, the Christmas business is now slowly starting. The first orders have already been received in major cities such as Hamburg and Braunschweig.…

Masseria Fruttirossi

Lome Super Fruit orange juice line makes its debut

As mentioned in our previous article (see FreshPlaza of 10/09/2019), the agri-food plant Masseria Fruttirossi from Apulia, renowned for its 100% pomegranate juices under the…

Anti-rain films to protect new kiwifruit orchards

Kiwifruit growers from the Latina province are installing anti-rain films and windproof nets to safeguard orchards and deal with climate change. The multi-hole thermal Gea Plast…

Either for forthcoming plants or to graft new plants for 2020

It's time to choose the right variety of nectarines

Despite a not very positive year, the market for peach and nectarine plants shows a certain vivacity. So says the nurseryman Daniele Neri who, however, states: "They do not…

Harvest time affects ripening quality of kiwifruit

Scientists at Kangwon National University (Chuncheon, Republic of Korea) have investigated the effect of harvest time on ripening quality of kiwifruit…

New Zealand blueberry growers anticipate another record season

New Zealanders ate a record seven million punnets of fresh locally-grown blueberries last season and are expected to eat even more this summer as the main…

Mike Looije, Yex:

"Pomegranate market slowly reviving, after quiet period"

There has not been much demand for pomegranates for a long while now. However, according to Yex's Product Manager, Mike Looije, demand is on the rise again. "There were many…

Jan van der Kaden, StC International:

"Moroccan tomato prices reaching a healthier level"

In the winter, many Dutch companies focus on Spanish greenhouse vegetables. At StC in the town of De Lier, however, the emphasis is on Moroccan production. "We work closely…

Proexport: "This DANA has not caused as much damage as the previous one"

Delays in citrus and leaf vegetable deliveries due to storms

Heavy and persistent rains and storms, accompanied by hail in some cases, have hit the southern half of Spain's Mediterranean regions: Almeria, Murcia, Alicante, Valencia and…

Mexico and China sign blueberry export agreement

Mexico will begin with the export of blueberries to China, according to agreements signed this last Wednesday between the agricultural authorities of both…

PhilMech studying ways to reduce sweet potato harvest losses

The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) has stated it is studying how to reduce losses in the sweet potato harvest to reduce damage to…

Travelling the longest possible train route in the world

"Don't fall asleep, or you'll miss your...""...Oh, never mind."

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