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Aweta Sales Director Italy and Spain

Junior Account Manager - Central Europe

Post-Harvest Quality Manager - Avocado

Senior Technical Lead - Beamsville (ON) Canada

General Manager - Buswa, Uganda

Head Grower - Jordan (ON) Canada

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Mushroom Substrate Manager - New Zealand

Andy Higgins, CEO of IFG

“Trends in the snacking category influence our table grape breeding process”

Creating an incredible eating experience. That’s the mission of table grape breeding company IFG. “We start with the consumer and then work our way backwards,” says Andy…

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California growers flag growing volumes of lemons from Argentina

California lemon growers are increasingly concerned over the volume of lemons being shipped to North America from Argentina. In 2017, a 16-year import ban on Argentinian…

North America blueberry supplies start shifting to imports

Supplies of blueberries are lighter this month. Domestically, Gerardo López of Produce Lovers says that there are still some supplies of berries from growing regions in the…

Port of Gulfport welcomes Dole's newest container vessels

The Port of Gulfport is pleased to welcome Dole’s newest container vessels, the “MV DOLE MAYA” and the “MV DOLE AZTEC” to Gulfport. The two vessels were named to recognize the…

Fresh produce grower works with Mexican government to increase trade

Fortune Growers, a fresh produce company based in Elgin, Illinois, has partnered with the Mexican government in order to strengthen the growth of Mexican produce. The company…

Fruit shipper implements Material Recyclability Index

Copefrut, a Chilean company, has developed a Material Recyclability Index, a measure that seeks to understand the capacity of packaging to be integrated into recycling flows.…

Welcoming cranberry season back with spirited holiday perspective

Having spent the last festive season socially-distanced from family and friends, this year’s layers of protection and eased restrictions will unite folks in more traditional…

California Brussels sprouts kick off and new line of baby sweet potatoes unveiled

Progressive Produce is harvesting California Brussels sprouts and launching Mim's Specialty Sweet Potatoes this fall. The company recently started its California Brussels…

Fyffes first to receive new rainforest alliance certification

Fyffes banana farm Esmeralda, in Costa Rica, is the first in the world to receive the new Rainforest Alliance certification, version 2020, which deploys a radically new…

Ready to eat “to go” line of tomatoes debuts

NatureSweet is proud to bring its new “To Go” line, a product that combines three different innovations in the snacking tomato category: Ready-to-Eat snacking tomatoes, in a…

Organic Produce Summit

New line of organic fresh herbs unveiled

Duncan Family Farms, a fourth-generation multi-regional certified organic farm and grower of baby leaf items, is proud to announce the launch of its organic fresh herb line.…

New baby iceberg lettuce debuts

Braga Fresh will debut Josie’s Organics baby iceberg lettuce in a two-count retail bag at the 2021 Organic Produce Summit, Sept. 16 in Monterey in booth #204. The Josie’s…

Organic table grapes highlighted

Four Star Fruit, Inc. is an organic table grape grower-shipper, providing a wide variety of exceptional organic fruit year-round. Their fields are located throughout the San…

Global Focus Potatoes / Onions

"We can not help but to temporarily halt export"

"Shipping cost of peeled Chinese onions is higher than product value"

Gansu is a major onion production area in China. The weather conditions and soil conditions are very well suited to the production of onions. The annual production volume in…

Retail

Dreamstime

Misfits Market has closed a $225mln Series C-1 funding round

Kroger has teamed up with Instacart

US: Pandemic-sensitive online grocery sales grow to $8.6bln in AugustThe U.S. online grocery market generated $8.6bln in sales during August, a gain of 4.7% versus a year ago,…

Temporary import requirement for fall 2021:

Canada: Some romaine from parts of California must be tested for E. coli

To protect Canadians from possible health risks, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is implementing temporary import conditions for romaine lettuce…

Massachusetts farmers still feel aftermath of Hurricane Ida

Despite being hundreds of miles away from Hurricane Ida, Massachusetts farms also took a major hit, and the storm's aftermath is still being felt. Due to the…

Department of Agriculture Cost-Sharing Program

North Carolina: Program allows organic farms to grow

After years of growing tobacco, T.Y. Baker decided to make the shift to grapes. From the start, Baker and his son Yates knew they wanted to do it all…

Ai-Ping Hu

GTRI

The future of peach harvesting

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed an intelligent robot that is designed to handle the human-based tasks of thinning and pruning peach trees, which could…

Californian Navel orange production forecast

Initial 2020-21 Navel forecast 84.0 million cartons, down 5 percent from previous year

The initial 2020-21 Navel orange forecast is 84.0 million cartons, down 5 percent from the previous year. Of the total Navel orange forecast, 81.0 million cartons are…

SA Harvest: "Solving hunger at South Africa's scale boils down to logistics"

Food insecurity in South Africa: closing the gap between farm and fork

Twenty million South Africans face food insecurity, which prompted an organization to gear up its logistics network to place food where it’s most desperately needed. Right:…

Yield was affected by Egyptian weather

“We expect an increase in demand for pomegranates in the coming weeks”

The Egyptian Wonderful pomegranates are about to be harvested and according to one exporter, weather did affect the yield but also made for larger sizes. They’ll be focusing…

Rob Kent - Kent Exports

"Being in Asia will give me the opportunity to meet people and make new contacts”

Kent Exports offer a variety of fresh produce from Australia to Asia and the Middle East. Over the last few years Rob Kent has built up a network of growers for whom he…

Robert Kraaijeveld (Nature's Pride): "Sales to Eastern Europe grew this year"

"Weekly green asparagus arrivals by boat from Peru"

The Peruvian green asparagus season is currently excellent. That is according to Robert Kraaijeveld of Nature's Pride in the Netherlands. "Demand is stable. That's mainly…

Henri Schockman (Levarht) about exciting Dutch greenhouse vegetable season finale:

"Good prices for tomatoes, collapsed bell pepper market, flat cucumber season"

Last year, the weather was hot at the beginning of August. That disrupted Dutch greenhouse vegetable supplies. This year's summer was, however, rather flat and stable. That…

Duelle: "The tomato that seduces both consumers and producers"

The latest variety of elongated red cherry tomatoes developed by Syngenta, the Duelle, is having a great season and has helped increase yields to more than 35 kg/m² in some…

Company eager to demonstrate energy efficiency, cost saving and fruit quality benefits of its tech

Interko to share latest advances in-person at World Food Moscow 2021

Interko, the global player for the design, manufacture and installation of state-of-the-art fruit ripening rooms, is thrilled to be returning to the trade exhibition trail at…

McPlant

McDonalds starts offering plant-based burger in the UK and Ireland

McDonald’s UK&I has announced a trial for its first ever plant-based burger – the McPlant – which delivers the same taste and experience one would expect from…

Strategic objective for the blueberry industry

128 grams of blueberries per day per capita

The bottom line is that many of today's consumers have increased the frequency and volume of their purchases, and there are also strong indications that new…

BreedingValue

Open Call for developing quality tool kits for soft fruit

The EU-funded research project BreedingValue, focusing on genetic resources in berries, has launched Open Call #4 for proposals on the development of methodological tool kits…

Featuring more shipper, cargo and carrier voices than ever before

Cool Logistics Global 2021: full agenda announced

The Cool Logistics Global Conference and Exhibition have released the Agenda for the 13th edition - the only international event this year for the perishables…

"Labour is such a huge issue in the industry at the moment"

Post by Tim O'Malley - Managing Director at Nationwide Produce I write this on the 13th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman’s banks. It was a pivotal moment in…

A second raspberry boom in Ukraine?

Attention is drawn to the threat of a new “raspberry boom” in the 2022 season in Ukraine. Representatives of berry nurseries confirm a sharp increase in demand…

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