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GLOBAL OVERVIEW LEMONS

In Spain, South Africa and China, adverse weather conditions during the growing seasons have severely limited the production of lemons, with up to 40% losses in the Chinese…

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Africa Export Sales Manager

Foodservice reopenings help boost demand for Watermelon radishes

Supplies of the Watermelon radishes are strong currently. “Supply is fairly consistent with where it was this time last year. This time of year is typically when we see…

Big Marble Farms:

“Anything that we can convert into sustainable packaging, we do”

Around the world, consumers have been sounding the alarm on single-use plastics in food packaging and are looking for sustainable alternatives to conventional clamshells and…

New GO USB data loggers are programmable and reusable

Emerson announces the launch of its new GO USB Logger suite of products. These programmable and reusable data loggers collect time, temperature and humidity data from…

California

Ventura County: 486 workers to lose jobs when tomato growing facilities switch to cannabis

A fast-growing cannabis company has signed a contract to buy a huge greenhouse south of Camarillo, that is currently operated by Houweling’s Tomatoes. Former…

Brooklyn, New York

Importer sentenced for conspiring to import cocaine in chili pepper shipment

In Brooklyn federal court, Humberto Baez, a produce importer based in Pennsylvania, was sentenced by US District Judge Allyne R. Ross to 13 years’ imprisonment…

New crop onions from Idaho and Oregon begin shipping

This week, Eagle Eye Produce, a fresh produce grower and shipper, will start shipping new crop yellow and red onions, with new crop white onions to follow soon after, from its…

Increased citrus production in the Argentine province of Entre Rios weighs down producer prices

"We are being paid almost half of what we were paid last year"

Entre Rios citrus growers are currently being paid a significantly lower price for their fruit than last season, despite inflation and increased costs. “We are…

Facial recognition software can help save multibillion dollar grape crop

An unusual collaboration between a biologist and an engineer might greatly enhance the current to protect grape crops. The new technology, using robotics and…

Florida citrus production looking at further decline

The orange and red grapefruit production in the state of Florida, which already is at historically low levels, will likely decline for years. Citrus economist,…

Special Automation

Cabbage harvester does the work of 20 - 30 people each day

The labour shortage in the UK has been well documented and growers are having to leave crops in the ground because there is no labour available to harvest them; this comes at…

Global Focus Soft/Stonefruit

Republic of Georgia set to export record amount of peaches and apples in 2021

Georgia exported 18.9 tons of peaches and nectarines worth $16.9 million

According to Minister of Agriculture of Georgia Levan Davitashvili, in 2021, the Republic of Georgia will export record volumes of peaches and apples. He…

Retail

Dreamstime

Ahold Delhaize's FreshDirect acquisition bears fruit

Gopuff is acquiring Dija

US: Grocery Outlet to take e-commerce plungeAfter holding off on online shopping, Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. has begun exploring options for e-commerce partners. Discussions…

Company also announces Second Quarter 2021 Results

Gladstone Land acquires organic blueberry orchards in Oregon & California

Gladstone Land Corporation announced that it has acquired approximately $42.3 million of farmland, blueberry plantings, and improvements located in Kern…

Ports facing biggest crisis in 65 years due to Covid

All over the world, ports have taken center stage during the pandemic. While many airports, roads, and trains ground to a halt during the peak of the pandemic…

Peri & Sons

Onion grower-shipper rolls out Earthbag for fall 2021

Yerington, NV-based Peri & Sons Farms announced the roll-out of its new Earthbag for fall 2021’s organic onions. In the company press release, the unique bag is described as…

Banana producers join the mobilizations in Ecuador blocking roads in Los Rios and Guayas

Different groups, including banana producers, participated in the blockade of several highways in the provinces of Guayas, Los Rios, and El Oro on Wednesday,…

"The agricultural and fruit world is kind of in a state of shock regarding this tremendous problem"

Chile's water crisis continues to deepen

According to the latest water balance of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), the month of July 2021 has not only been the warmest in the last 72 years, but…

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Difficult run-up to Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival for South African citrus suppliers

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival falls on 21 September this year, two weeks earlier than last year’s festival, which further narrows the window for South African…

Agri-Food platform Nile.ag contributes to Food Security during Unrests, Lockdown

Digital marketplace Nile.ag saw demand spike during the week’s unrest that resulted in disruption to the agri-food value chain. According to Nile.ag’s founder, Louis de Kock,…

New Zealand avocado exporter launches new brand

The New Zealand avocado harvest for the local market started in mid June. The Honeytree Farms orchard situated in the Far North region where, Fresh Solutions Group's avocados…

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Being fan-favourite advertisement during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Australian Avocados advertising campaign wins gold

The Australian Avocados ‘Our Green Gold’ advertising campaign was the fan-favourite advertisement during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage. The campaign won the ‘gold medal’ in…

Container rates soaring

Covid infection closes shipping terminal at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port

On Wednesday, an employee at the Meishan Terminal of China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port tested positive for the coronavirus despite being fully inoculated; it was an…

Breakthrough in the tests of the first transgenic Cavendish banana plants with resistance to Fusarium

The trials conducted by a group of researchers at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, offer promising results in the search for…

The production volume of Vietnamese coconuts is recovering after a shortage

This is the peak period of the Vietnamese coconut export season and the price of coconuts from the Ben Tre region rose to a high level. Mary is a sales manager at the…

Leon van den Hombergh, Frankort&Koning, the Netherlands:

"High level of transparency between growers, service providers, retailers has become the new reality"

Fruit and vegetable trading sometimes used to be known for the bickering between suppliers and the cloud between grower and buyer. Not anymore, according to commercial…

“I expect the Polish apple harvest will be three times the size it was last year”

The new apple season is approaching and in terms of volumes the season is looking great. One apple exporter states he expects the harvest to be three times the amount that it…

Maersk Q2 rates up 63% versus pre-COVID. Global demand up only 3%

'Global demand isn’t booming. So why are shipping rates this high?'

There is no COVID-era surge in global cargo demand. There’s a lengthy albeit temporary spike in congestion compounded by a localized, stimulus-and-savings-driven demand boom…

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