Canadian grower celebrates Farmworker Awareness Week

Windset Farms® likes to do things for its farmworkers. The company regularly brings in food trucks for lunches and holds raffles and barbecues at its…

California rains hold off avocado growers for now

Avocado volumes are ample currently compared to this time last year. California’s crop is delayed for now following the state’s significant and recent…

A grower group connected by family

Family is a word often used around the produce industry these days, and for good reason. Many successful farm companies today come from families who…

Air eating quality, with boat prices

New papaya varieties entering the market

For more than 30 years, HLB Tropical Food GmbH has been marketing papayas, introducing them to customers in the US and Europe. “Before HLB, papayas in…

Why AgriFORCE wants to acquire Berry People

AgriFORCE has made the headlines quite a few times recently. The company indeed went on an acquisition spree tailored to creating a business that…

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

Movement of blueberries through Arizona, California and Texas is expected to increase

Californian growers are fighting another round of devasting storms flooding thousands of acres in the Salinas Valley. This is happening as California…

Lettuce prices likely to increase again due to California flooding

Agriculture experts claim that lettuce prices are likely to rise next month and could stay high into the summer. The reason for this is the flooding that…

USDA restricts PACA violators in California, Minnesota and Texas

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of…

Julio Mérida, Latin American Banana Task Force on shared responsibility throughout the banana chain:

"The producers are the ones whose margins are getting smaller and smaller"

Of all the challenges facing banana growers in Latin America today, including Fusarium TR4 and climate change, the most profound problem is the lack of…

DelFrescoPure expands sales team

Kingsville, Ontario-based grower DelFrescoPure® has expanded its sales team with fresh produce industry veteran Michael Jones. Spanning over three decades, Leamington local Jones…

SEPC 2nd annual Fresh Chefs Scholarship open for applications

The Southeast Produce Council is excited to open the application window for its newest scholarship program, SEPC Fresh Chefs. The 2nd annual…

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National Retail Report - specialty crops

Strawberries, asparagus, raspberries and mangoes on hand for spring meals

As winter storms continued to blow across the US, Passover favorites like apple and grape juices, honey, dates, and leeks were featured in special…

EMEX: "We have very good expectations for this season"

Mexico expects to increase its mango production by 2023

According to the Association of Mango Exporters of Mexico (EMEX), the country will produce 295,768,528 million kilos of mango this season, surpassing…

Sérgio Negrão, Jagrao Brazil:

“On limes things change fast, Europe's high season is coming, orders and prices are increasing”

The Brazilian limes high season to Europe is coming with increasing orders and higher prices says Sérgio Negrão, CEO and one of the founders of Jagrao.…

Colombia: Smart irrigation might enable a sustainable future for Hass avocado

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at Universidad del Valle (Univalle) have developed an application that integrates a wealth of crop, soil and…

Pineapples and bananas among most exported products from Costa Rica in 2022

Fresh tropical pineapples and bananas were among the products most exported by Costa Rica in 2022, according to the annual data on Foreign Trade from the…

Mexican avocado exporters do not see prices match up this Super Bowl

Although avocado exports from Mexico to the world in January and February increase each year to mainly meet the demand for guacamole due to the US Super Bowl,…

Peruvian asparagus air exports increased by 24% in January 2023

According to information from the Foreign Trade Society of Peru (ComexPerú), in the first month of 2023, Peruvian air shipments were led by exports of fruit…

Top 10 strongest currencies in the world in 2023

The U.S. dollar is generally seen as the most powerful currency in the world. It’s the most-traded currency on the global stage by a wide margin.…

EU production and prices - Member States' notifications of February 15 2023

Total EU banana production forecast for 2023 stands at 382.938 tons

The EU banana production forecast for 2023 stands at 230.000 tons for Spain, 134.902 tons for France (Martinique and Guadeloupe), 1.496 tons for Cyprus…

Combimetal Carrera

New cart to harvest soilless strawberries and berries

Combimetal Carrera, a leading company from southern Italy specializing in the production and setting up of steel structures and manufacturer of…

Mark van Sijll, Sijlltrade:

"I'm not competing for the last onions; let others do that"

Dutch onion prices are skyrocketing. "You can make €0.70 for delivery in March or April. But the onion market can be hot; you must have onions…

The Potato Chef products need to be stored

Belgian potato company gets new cooling, freezing system

In Belgium, Industriële Koeltechniek Roose (IKR) recently installed a new cooling and freezing system at De Aardappelhoeve. This potato specialist is…

Sükrü Karahan from fruit wholesaler Maxime from Essen:

"Oversupply means Belgian apples are not a lucrative business this year"

Between December and March, the Essen-based wholesaler Maxime Ltd obtains around 90 percent of its apples from neighboring Belgium. The entire range of…

Israel’s largest port shut as protests escalate

As protests in Israel escalate further, the fresh produce industry is uncertain about the effects on harvesting, packing and exporting. The Ben Gurion…

AgTech Moldova Conference

Over 250 participants and speakers from five countries discussed digitalization of agriculture in Chisinau

Moldovan agriculture is quickly adapting to technological innovations, which are becoming more attractive for the sector as they offer digital…

New Rijk Zwaan varieties create more choice in the leek market

Since last year, leek growers have had more varieties to choose from. Vegetable breeding company Rijk Zwaan is aiming to play a serious role in this…

Lucien de Wit, LuBaFresh:

"Fewer than expected Indian grapes being shipped"

The first white grapes arrived from India at LuBaFresh in the Netherlands on February 9. They now have enough for some availability outside programs.…

Fiji: Ginger farmers state they are treated unfairly by Frespac Ginger Fiji Ltd

A group of ginger farmers are claiming unfair treatment by Frespac Ginger Fiji Limited. A Wainibuku farmer stated that he has been supplying ginger to the…

Eye-watering sum for a single onion at Sainsbury’s online checkout

Shoppers at Sainsbury’s were appalled as they were charged £15 for a single onion. In particular, customers faced the eye-watering price of the vegetable in…

"Growing white strawberries organically leads to higher market returns"

White strawberries have been a new product on the Chinese strawberry market in recent years. They have attracted attention because the color and taste…

"Our preservative sachets help extend the shelf life of stone fruit"

The stone fruit season in Europe will officially start at the end of May. Most of the fruits currently on the market come from Chile and South Africa.…