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Operations Manager - Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Night-Shift Crop Inspector - San Jose (CA) USA

Product Coördinator Fresh produce - Ridderkerk, Dinteloord of Heerle

Medewerker Marketing & Communicatie - Hillegom

Supply Chain Specialist - Nairobi, Kenya

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Greenhouse Director of Production - Center Moriches (NY) USA

Head Grower Cannabis - Reading, Southern England

Global Product Manager - Northeast Ohio area

Produce Sales Representative - Remote/Surrounding Los Angeles area

Raspberries, blackberries and red currants

GLOBAL OVERVIEW BERRIES

Raspberries, blackberries and red currants continue to grow in popularity in most countries, with red currants lagging slightly behind the other two berries in some places. In…

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Operations Manager - Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

New red grapefruit faring well

There is a newcomer to citrus cultivation in Israel - Red Premium Grapefruit. Its production is going splendidly, by all accounts. This new Brand was introduced to the market…

PEI and British Columbia put pressure on Manitoba potato supplies

Supplies of Manitoba potatoes are even currently. “Although supplies are down from last year we have plenty of supplies for the Canadian market. We may not be as active in the…

FreshCloud™ Quality Inspection

Washington apple grower digitally integrates quality inspection to improve freshness

AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGFS), a provider of produce freshness solutions devoted to fighting food loss and waste, announced that Starr Ranch Growers, a Washington…

Organic, washable fruit coating for the produce industry launches

Yumbrella, an organic, washable coating for apples, has been launched in the U.S. by Startchy. It is the first washable coating for the U.S. fruit and…

Peter Fox appointed as CEO of SOMIC Packaging

Peter Fox has been appointed as CEO of SOMIC Packaging, Inc. A 30-year packaging industry veteran, he has served as the Senior Vice President of Sales since…

Increased demand for automated indoor residential gardens

“We’ve seen a 300% increase in demand in comparison to last year,” says Kevin Jakiela, Co-founder and President. “Overall, with the pandemic, people have more spare time and…

Banana importer partners with Breakfast Club of Canada

Fyffes and Breakfast Club of Canada (BCC) are delighted to announce a new partnership that will increase fresh fruit servings to school children in Montreal communities where…

Claims of unfair advantages for other countries over domestic producers

USDA grapefruit import ‘patch’ protested

The state agriculture commissioners for Florida and Texas recently urged U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to reinstate juice content requirements on…

Yorizane: A new almond variety

Decades-long experimentation at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Parlier, California, has resulted in the arrival of the new Yorizane almond variety. ARS research geneticist…

Special Year Overview

Year Overview: January

The hope that 2021 would be pandemic-free quickly evaporated as the world is still dealing with the challenges. However, that’s not all that happened, and in the December…

Global Focus Exotic/Tropical Fruit

Guy Clessens, Fruit Vandepoel:

"Good demand for exotics and forgotten vegetables; wild mushroom sales lagging this season"

For now, it is business as usual at Belgian stores and eateries. "But given all the COVID-19 messages, I expect more consumers will soon stay home or get take-aways. That…

Retail

Dreamstime

Focus on fresh and digital growth pays off for Kroger in Q3

Largest Asian supermarket chain in Canada to open its 1st location in Quebec

US: SpartanNash seeks fewer fleet miles for lower emissions in 2022Grand Rapids, Michigan-based SpartanNash said it will cut its fleet mileage by more than 7mln miles, or…

High-tech imaging might save Maine blueberry crop from climate change

Maine’s iconic berry crop is facing a climate crisis. Scientists earlier this year reported that the Down East region — home to the state’s blueberry barrens —…

Border closure upsets Prince Edward Island potato growers

Farmers across Prince Edward Island on the east coast of Canada were shocked by news of the US border closing to fresh potato exports from the Island. The vast…

Monteverde’s joins FreshEdge

FreshEdge, a family of produce and specialty food companies backed by Rotunda Capital Partners, acquired Monteverde’s, a fresh produce distributor located near Pittsburgh,…

FDA proposes changes to Food Safety Modernization Act Rule to enhance safety of agricultural water used on produce

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a proposed rule that aims to enhance the safety of produce. It proposes to require farms to conduct…

Fire damages potato warehouse in Larimore, North Dakota

The damages from a fire at a seed potato warehouse in Larimore last Tuesday night are estimated at $2 million. Around 10:40 pm, the Grand Forks County…

UF research on greening disease

Mesh covers protect citrus trees from psyllids

New research from Fernando Alferez shows that citrus trees grown under individual protective covers (IPCs) show no signs of Huanglongbing, commonly known as…

IQonsulting

Chilean Blueberry Committee Crop & Exports Report. Week 47

Blueberry season up to week 47: cumulative 4,671 tons, 26% less than last season

Last week (47), 1,865 tons were exported, 28% less than the same week of last season, accounting for a change in export dynamics. For this week, a volume of around 3,000 tons…

Los Antiguos will begin its harvest at the end of December

Argentinian greengrocers start selling the first cherries of the season

Some greengrocers in Argentina have already started to sell this year's first cherries from Mendoza, Rio Negro, Neuquen, or Chubut. In general, the productions…

Brazil: Minimum price industrial grapes will be R$ 1.31 per kilo from January

As of January 1st of next year, the minimum price for industrial grapes will be R$ 1.31/kg for the 2021/2022 harvest. The new price, up 19% over the current…

Bram Klapwijk, Nature's Pride:

"Fewer cranberries available, December demand higher than usual"

This year, growers in Wisconsin, USA, cultivated about 30% fewer cranberries. "That's because of the combination of a warmer April and colder-than-usual May. The heat caused…

Melvin Middelham, Exotifruit EU:

"Navel Chocolate oranges available from next week again"

"From next week, we'll have the well-known Navel Chocolate oranges available again. These are sweeter than regular oranges. They're less acidic and are also juicier," says…

Kenneth Meyer, Natural Tropic:

"Kumquats are a true Christmas item, Cherimoya sold all season"

Natural Tropic's range has popular exotics like avocados and mangoes. It supplements that assortment with lesser-known products like kumquats and Cherimoya. This Spanish…

Ekaterina Fefelova, from the global logistics company Easyfresh:

“Bottlenecks are here to stay for a long while, probably at a lesser extent, once the effects of the covid-rebound are over”

The global maritime logistics are facing difficulties. Reefer container supply remains currently tight. Adequate equipment rotation is suffering the lower schedule reliability…

Why washed Dutch potatoes open up far-off markets

Washing potatoes with clean water increases their shelf life and value. You can then export these potatoes, problem-free, to distant destinations. Primofin has developed a…

Eurostat

Estimated 36.8 million tons of fruit, berries and nuts harvested in 2020 in the EU

The EU produces a wide range of fruit, berries and nuts. An estimated 36.8 million tons were harvested in 2020, of which 14.3 million tons were pome fruit (apples and pears),…

Ruan van Graan – Banhoek Fruit Packers

Plum growers need a normal Cape summer but the rain just keeps coming

The Banhoek Valley outside Stellenbosch is about ten days later on its plum harvest than the Western Cape’s early plum areas; the last of the African Rose plums are now being…

Neta Isralls – Vegtech Netafim

Hydroponic strawberries where sugarcane used to grow

“There has been an increase in greenhouse projects in the last few years due to efforts to tackle food and water security. Greenhouses are a large part of the solution to…

An abundant papaya supply leads to creation of award-winning products

A recent increase in papaya production has led to an Australian producer to launch some creative value-add products, including an award-winning vodka. Skybury Farms, based in…

Million dollar hail damages at Huon Valley apple orchard

The Hansen apple orchard in Huonville has been hit hard by the recent hail storm; the apple crop at that orchard has been destroyed. Howard Hansen estimates…

People's Republic of China

Decree 248 export regulations will enter into force on January 1, 2022

The Regulations on the Registration and Administration of Overseas Producers of Imported Food (Degree 248) will enter into force on January 1, 2022. Once…

Thailand ranks first among mango importers

The demand for imported mangoes in the Chinese market is still growing

China is the world's second-largest producer of mangoes. It is rich in a variety of resources and has extensive planting areas. In recent years, China's mango industry has…

Ec.europa.eu

Three-week average prices of yellow bananas produced in EU at €155. Down 5% from last week

The average wholesale prices of bananas from Latin America -in €/100 kgs- came in at €100 for Germany around 21-11-21. The same goods sold for €90 for France, €99 for Italy…

Murcia's canned artichoke exports to the United States fall below 10,000 tons

Murcia's canned artichokes exports to the United States registered their worst data in 2020 after falling by 16.5% over 2019, totaling 8,615 tons. Gone are the…

Taiwan: Smart device tells you how clean your fresh produce is

Taiwanese manufacturer Asus is launching a surprising connected device in the US that can help detect the cleanliness of fruit and vegetables before they are…

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