California won’t have enough cherries to meet Memorial Day demand

Florida mangos begin harvest by the end of the month

Florida production of mangoes will get underway in the next month or so with that season continuing through August. “It’s a good crop here. Florida is…

California won’t have enough cherries to meet Memorial Day demand

California’s cherry harvest has barely gotten underway. The early varieties have just started, which is about 2.5 to three weeks later than normal. “It…

Blueberry council applauds Congressional Action on Japan’s frozen blueberry tariffs

A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Reps. Rick Larsen (D-WA-02) and David Valadao (R-CA-22), and Sen. Angus King (I-ME), are calling on the U.S. Trade…

Gap between Chilean and Mexican grapes coming

It’s going to be a strong ending for Chilean grapes this season. So says Franco Pruzzo of Summit Produce Inc. who says that the import season for the U.S.…

Sungrow Farms

Mastronardi Produce forms joint venture with Intergrow

Mastronardi Produce, a fourth-generation family-owned business that pioneered commercial greenhouse growing in North America, has announced a new…

Lufa Farms adds vertical farm:

CAN (ON): Indoor farm integrates greenhouse technologies to maximize production

"Our ambition today is to reduce the investment required to deploy this technology and to design a simple and efficient indoor farm similar in cost to…

USDA

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

Movement of asparagus from Peru through South Florida expected to remain about the same

Movement of asparagus crossings from Mexico through Calexico, California, San Luis, Arizona and Arizona is expected to decrease seasonally. Trading is…

USDA

South African Agricultural Economic Fact Sheet

Bilateral agricultural trade between the US and South Africa reached record value of nearly $1 billion in 2022

The South African Agricultural Economic Fact Sheet has been updated to include calendar year 2022. Bilateral agricultural trade between the United…

Greenhouse grower sponsors men’s healthy eating guide

Windset Farms® places a high value on health and wellness and is proud to sponsor A Guy’s Guide to Eating Healthy, created by the Canadian Men’s Health…

Forecasted yield is 1,810 pounds per acre

USDA forecasts smaller almond crop

The 2023 California Almond Subjective Forecast published Friday by the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS)…

First National SugarBee Apple Day this week

The SugarBee® growers of Washington State are excited to announce the inaugural National SugarBee® Apple Day on May 20. This day is a celebration of…

How scientists developed a robotic hand to pick blackberries in Arkansas

Imagine an autonomous bi-pedal robot with 10 arms, each tipped with three-fingered silicone grippers picking its way through rows of blackberries, and…

Newhouse urges Biden Administration to stand up for potato growers in trade dispute with Japan

Reps. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and Dan Kildee (D-MI) and U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) led 31 of their colleagues to urge the Biden…

Providing relief for crops devastated by Hurricanes Ian and Nicole

Hurricane relief assistance for citrus farmers passes US House

On Thursday, House Lawmakers passed the Block Grant Assistance for Citrus Farmers. The legislation aims to provide relief for agriculture producers devastated…

Lancaster Foods updates voluntary recall of various expired kale, spinach and collard green products

Lancaster Foods has updated their May 5, 2023 Recall notice to add one product (Lancaster Brand Spinach item #41714, “Best If Used By” date April 29,…

Governor Ron DeSantis signs strongest anti-illegal immigration legislation in the country

Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1718 to combat the effects of illegal immigration caused by the federal government’s border policies. This…

Peru's currency reaches strongest level in a year this week

Peru's national currency has emerged as a mainstay of relative stability among Latin American foreign exchange markets, reaching its strongest level in a year…

USDA

National Retail Report - specialty crops

New crop California cherries, strawberries, mangos and more provided inspiration for Mother's Day

This week retailers filled stores with fruits, flowers, candy, and bakery items that were almost as sweet as mom. New crop California cherries,…

Infections continuing after more than 10 years

Citrus greening disease increasing in Southern California

Roughly half of Orange County and smaller regions of the other four counties are under quarantine, a California Department of Agriculture map shows.…

TOMRA launches TOMRA 5X in Chile

New technology for the detection of pips in fresh and frozen cherries

TOMRA has launched in Chile the TOMRA 5X, a very efficient machine equipped with an X-ray sensor that allows the detection of a cherry's pit. It is a…

Almost 50 avocado and macadamia farms for sale in Soutpansberg area

Trouble ahead if no power to pump diesel to the generators running water pumps, packhouses and cold stores

When you see Kent mangoes in a greengrocer at the moment, priced at R50 (2.38 euro) for a tree-ripened fruit, you are looking at the only mangoes still…

Recent rainfall saves the stone fruit season in Tunisia

The stone fruit season begins in Tunisia, with good volumes and quality. The industry was unaffected by the drought, says Mohamed Sadok, CEO of…

Output reduction expected in China

"New garlic harvest will be on the market at the end of May"

The price of garlic was stable for a short time in late April, and started a new wave of increases in early May. "In the first week of May, the price…

Warsaw, 19-20 September, 2023

Business meetings with buyers of large-scale retailers present in Poland

The registration is open for the participation in face-to-face business meetings between fruit and vegetable buyers from the large-scale retail chains…

Pioneering digital agriculture

WMBT Holdings collaborates with Sandomierz government in Poland

Du Guoyong, Deputy Secretary-General of the World Peace Ribbon Organization and Director General of the Poland Committee, accompanied Dr. Bauluo Zhang,…

Effective 31 May

Managing Director Dr. Kristian Moeller of GLOBALG.A.P. to step down

Kristian Moeller, Managing Director of GLOBALG.A.P. c/o FoodPLUS GmbH, has announced he will step down from the role effective May 31. Dr. Moeller has been…

Uncertainty over Cairnryan port facilities to check EU goods

There is uncertainty over whether new facilities will be built at Cairnryan Port to check goods coming from the Republic of Ireland and wider EU via Northern…

TuttoFood 2023 - photo gallery

The national and international agribusiness sectors came together in Milan

TuttoFood 2023, the four-day B2B trade show for the entire agribusiness chain, ended on 11 May. FreshPlaza visited the fair on the third day. Many…

Radford Software -

New Zealand fresh produce software provider savours surge of demand

New Zealand fresh produce software provider Radford Software Limited has expanded its global reach into new territories and categories as it continues…

World Macadamia Organisation:

Falling prices and over-supply of macadamia nuts not all doom and gloom

Falling prices and over-supply has been topic of discussion, but it is not all doom and gloom, says Jillian Laing, CEO of, the World Macadamia Organisation…

Outbound Mission program plays an important role supporting Australian grape exporters

India is a large producer of table grapes with relatively small volumes imported mostly from China. India’s lack of cold chain infrastructure inhibits table…

Oversupply and low prices still possible later this year

Wind and cold spells New Zealand avocado shortage

New Zealand avocado growers have been hammered by high winds and cold snaps which mean an avocado shortage on supermarket shelves. Head of domestic avocado…

University of Nagoya, Japan

New technology quickly detects nutrients in crops

New technology is able to analyze the nutritive compounds of crops in moments. It works through a mass spectrometry in tandem of ionization by electrospray…

Phytotherapy Research study:

'Eating mushrooms might lower blood pressure levels'

In a recent Phytotherapy Research study, scientists review existing literature on edible mushrooms and their bioactive constituents and their impact on…

Nashik district exports 127,000 tons of grapes

Nashik district, despite facing adverse weather conditions in the form of unseasonal showers, has managed to export 127,000 tons of grapes in the 2022-23 grape…