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Commercial Manager | Huelva, Spain | Soft Fruits

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Quality Assurance Manager - Northern Europe

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Senior Glasshouse Grower - Warragul, Australia

California Sumo Citrus® season is progressing well

California grown Sumo Citrus is back in stores and will be available until April. Halfway through the season, growers are pleased with the way the season is progressing. “It…

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Difficult US asparagus market due to coronavirus

The US asparagus supply is currently coming from Caborca, Mexico. The Caborca season starts in late January and runs through part of April. While the volumes and quality…

Jackfruit expands meat replacement choices

Jackfruit supplies out of Mexico are steady as interest in the commodity is growing. “Right now the volume of jackfruit is coming from Chiapas, Mexico and it’s started to…

Starr Ranch Growers partners with Stadelman Fruit

"The partnership adds more than 3 million boxes of fruit to Starr Ranch's portfolio"

Starr Ranch Growers is the new marketing and sales arm of Stadelman Fruit. The partnership, effective May 1, adds more than 3 million boxes of apples, cherries and pears to…

Braga Fresh named Walmart Supplier of the Year

Braga Fresh, a third-generation farming family, and a visionary leader in the produce industry, was named Produce Supplier of the Year at the 2020 Walmart…

Expansion of ownership group

United Apple Sales announces Brett Baker's promotion

United Apple Sales (UAS) a grower, packer, shipper, and marketer of domestic and import apples, pears and cherries, has announced the promotion of one if its…

San Diego Zoo event shares East Coast apple variety with West Coast consumers

On Saturday, February 22nd, SnapDragon Apples and the San Diego Zoo partnered to create a one-of-a-kind pop-up event sharing the apple’s signature ‘crunch’ with California…

Wonderful® Pistachios win 2020 SnackNation Insights Award

Wonderful® Pistachios won the 2020 SnackNation Insights Award for “Best Nut or Trail Mix.” This is the second straight year that a Wonderful Pistachios variety has been named…

Shawnee, Oklahoma

US boasts world’s largest grocery store apple display

Some 11,760 3-pound bags of Chelan Fresh apples are on currently on display in Shawnee, Oklahoma. With the goal of making healthy food accessible to parents, children and community…

How will the Chinese garlic market develop?

US garlic price suddenly soars

China is the largest producer of garlic in the world. Since the outbreak of the corona virus, roads have been blocked and labor has been in short supply. These problems severely…

Giddings Fruit secures US$90 million cross-border note purchase agreement

DLA Piper represented Giddings Fruit S.A., a Latin American fruit export company, as the borrower in a US$90 million note purchase and guarantee agreement. The…

Special Australia / New Zealand

Ramzi Amari - Van Amerongen

In Australia and New Zealand there is growing interest in dynamic storage

Van Amerongen specialises in CA/ULO technology for storing fruit and vegetables. The company has been conditioning small and large cold stores across the world for over 40…

Global Focus Grapes

India: 63,000 tons of grapes exported from Nashik district so far

Grape exports from India’s Nashik district seem to have gathered momentum; officials are announcing that nearly 63,000 tons of the fruit have been sent out in…

Retail

Walmart Canada is opening a Walmart/PenguinPickUp location in downtown Montreal

Walmart plans to hire 500 new truck drivers

US: ShopRite introduces virtual dietitian programShopRite supermarket’s newly launched Registered Dietitian Virtual Chat program enables shoppers to ask questions about diet…

U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council presents a strategic refresh

The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council presented a strategic refresh at the organization’s annual Spring Meetings, which took place the first week of March. USHBC…

Produce companies celebrate National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day

Despite the news of COVID-19, now on the rise in America, hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes continue to be the top health conditions in the U.S. To…

Colombian students develop a robotic system to classify oranges

Students from the National University of Colombia (UNAL) developed a new robotic system that is capable of automatically classifying oranges according to their size and degree…

Peru

Verdeflor increases its fruit processing capacity with a second plant in Ica

Verdeflor, a Peruvian agribusiness company, will inaugurate this week in Ica its second fruit processing plant, which will have a processing capacity of 10 tons per hour and…

Ica produces 22% of the artichokes that Peru produces for export

According to the Regional Directorate of Agriculture of Ica (DRA Ica), the department of Ica produced 22% of the 41,514 tons of artichokes (canned and frozen) that Peru…

The global economic crash will affect Argentina's fruit exports

The current international crisis has taken its toll on two of the most important destination markets for the fruit from the region of Rio Negro and Neuquen…

SunGold kiwifruit licensing tender due to open next month

With the new season’s SunGold kiwifruit licensing tender due to open next month, expectations are that orchardist interest in the 750ha area being made…

Lin Feifei - Shenzhen Yuanxing Fruit Co

"Quality of New Zealand Breeze apples is better than last year"

The new production season of New Zealand Breeze apples is already under way. Yuanxing Fruit Co., Ltd. has been actively promoting New Zealand Breeze apples in the wholesale…

Import market is slowly recovering

Egyptian oranges reach Chinese market in larger volumes

In China there is a large production of oranges which has come on the market for the last few months. Besides the local supply, imported oranges are also doing well. Currently…

Spanish strawberries for children

Photos of a 1-kg crate of strawberries in a dedicated packaging perfect for children were sent to FreshPlaza by a reader from Rome who purchased it in his local supermarket…

Hans Jansergers, Jansegers H:

"The demand for unwashed potatoes is declining"

Belgium has always been a true potato country. The potato remains as popular as ever. Volumes are, however, under pressure. In Belgium, they can fall back on selling loose…

New season of haskap berries could be hit by frost again

The season for haskap berries is still a few months away, but already some growers are worried for a repeat of last season. Not only was the season super-short, but a…

Reyes Moratal, manager of CVVP: "Llevamos años luchando contra su cultivo ilegal en España y Portugal"

Elimination of first illegal Nadorcott plantations in Portugal

The first illegal plantations of the Nadorcott mandarin variety have been eliminated in southern Portugal. The Protected Plant Varieties Club (CVVP), which manages and defends…

South African Rand hits 40 year low, concerns about downgrading to junk status

The South African Rand hit a 40 year low yesterday, it had been falling gradually but took a tumble this week. This is attributed to the poor economy among other factors.…

Consumers still unsure which food choices have lowest climate impact

The energy used to grow, process, package and transport food accounts for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. But not all food is equally…

Are sweet potatoes, cassava, or yams good substitutes for potatoes?

Despite being a vegetable product, potato's high glycemic index excludes it from being one of the food staples that should be included among the recommended 5…

Exclusive marketer Frank Berning on this year's My Lord-campaign

"Due to smaller sizes, this year's revenues are a bit less as well"

Current stocks of all varieties of the French apple brand My Lord will be depleted faster than expected this year. Only the "Jazz" variety still has sufficient stocks to…

Jaap D’Hont, D’Hont sorting company

“Again satisfied with French onions”

At the D’Hont onion sorting company in the Dutch village of Groede, the season also quietens down toward the end of January. Company sales, however, remain stable because more…

Wholesale banana prices around 1 euro per kilo in first 6 weeks of 2020

EU wholesale prices of Latin American bananas were around 1 euro per kilo in the first six weeks of 2020. This is in line with the first weeks of previous years, although…

Spain

Average mandarin prices expected to continue increasing in the coming weeks

According to the weekly report on the citrus production published by the Prices and Markets Observatory of the Government of Andalusia corresponding to the…

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