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Argentinian lemons increase market share in the U.S.

The Argentinian lemon season runs from March through August, and the outlook for the upcoming season is a positive one. Citromax has been producing lemons in Argentina since…

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Florida growers eye overnight temperatures

Florida growers were watching last night to see just how cold the temperatures were going to get. Weather forecasts were predicting a chilly overnight—possibly one of the…

Greenhouse growers in legal dispute over "Mighty" tomatoes

MightyVine, a Chicago greenhouse grower on 22.5 acres is suing Ontario greenhouse grower Mastronardi Produce over the use of the term ‘Mighty’ in its branding. MightyVine,…

Partnership with ZZ2 and Core Fruit to create powerful platform

Mission Produce to establish operations in South Africa

Mission Produce, Inc. announced it is establishing operations in South Africa in partnership with ZZ2 and Core Fruit. The new partnership will create a powerful trading…

Calavo Growers acquires Calif. based Simply Fresh Fruit

Calavo Growers, Inc. announced that its Renaissance Food Group (RFG) subsidiary has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SFFI Company, Inc. doing business…

2020 Community Innovation Grants Program

United Fresh Start Foundation awards $53,000

United Fresh Start Foundation announced the eight recipients of the 2020 Community Innovation Grants Program. The program funds initiatives that aim to…

Molly Ringwald joins Avocados From Mexico's superbowl commercial

Avocados From Mexico announced in their first teaser, titled “Tiara,” that they’ve partnered with Golden Globe-nominated actress, singer and author, Molly Ringwald for their…

Williams pears harvest begins in Argentina

The harvest of the Williams pear in all of the Upper Rio Negro Valley began this week. By volume, the Williams pear variety is the most important variety in the region.…

Pro*Act announces Cultivating Change 2019-2020 winners

Pro*Act announced the 14 winners of its Cultivating Change Local Farm Grant Program, which awards $75,000 in grants to local farmers who have taken the…

Special Fruit Logistica

Quality improvement instrumentation for fresh produce

Quick Brix measurements through use of refractometers

As a European source of quality improvement instrumentation for fresh produce, Fresh Produce Instruments will showcase quality control instruments at Fruit Logistica. A…

Rising dollar improves competitive strength of Chinese snow pea export

"China is one of the largest countries in the world in terms of snow pea exports. Production areas in China are able to produce snow peas throughout the year. Their supply…

FarmERP will showcase new software at Fruit Logistica

ERP platform gives stakeholders complete control over process management

Sanjay Borkar and Santosh Shinde started out 18+ years ago as two young computer engineers with an aim to revolutionize agriculture using Information Technology Solutions. In…

Global Focus Bananas

Paraguay exports bananas to Chile for the first time

On January 20, Paraguay shipped out its first shipment of bananas to Chile. The shipment consisted of 1,248 boxes of bananas produced in Tembiaporã, in the…

Retail

Lucky’s is apparently planning to shutter 32 of its 39 stores in 10 states

Meijer: Flashfood pilot program reduced in-store food waste by more than 10%

US: The Fresh Market debuts online store, mobile appBuilding on the partnership it forged with Instacart last spring, specialty grocer The Fresh Market has rolled out a new…

foodwatch wins lawsuit against Amazon:

Amazon Fresh must clearly denote the origin of fruit and vegetables

Online grocer Amazon Fresh must better label the origin of fruit and vegetables; the Munich Regional Court has upheld a corresponding claim by foodwatch. The…

Delays in the vegetable harvest and severe impact on citrus crops

Storm Gloria causes major damage to Murcian and Valencian agriculture

Many vegetable fields in the Spanish Region of Murcia have been flooded after more than two days of intense rainfall. Photo: Proexport The abundant water covering part of the…

Michoacan produces 76% of Mexico's cherimoyas

According to data from the Agricultural Food and Fisheries Information Service (Siap), the Mexican state of Michoacan produces 173 tons of the 259 tons of the…

Costa Rica strengthens its avocado sector with its National Avocado Plan

The Government of Costa Rica will present the National Avocado Plan on Wednesday, January 22. The plan was jointly prepared by the national avocado producers…

USDA Exporter Guide

Greater opportunities for fruit import to Japan due to aging of local growers

Japan (128 million inhabitants) is the fourth largest market for American exporters of food and agricultural products. The United States exported 12.9 billion dollars (11.6…

Cherry becomes no.1 selling fruit before Chinese New Year

Recently, fruit sales have entered a peak in wholesale markets in China. This year, due to the early arrival of the Chinese New Year, the market price of…

Some farms shipped 70% of their crops

Orah mandarins sold at over 4 yuan in China

Over the past days, citrus from Nanning, Laibin, and Guigang have trickled into the market. Prices of good-quality fruits remain stable at 4.0-4.2 yuan/half a…

"The current export price is stable"

"The Chinese pear industry optimized plantation systems this production season"

"The harvest season of fresh Chinese pears began in July, 2019. We expect the supply season to last until April or May in 2020. Looking at the overall conditions in comparison…

Growing export volume of Chinese Guanxi honey pomelo leads to price decline

"The Guanxi honey pomelo trademark was registered in 2003. Since then, the overall surface area devoted to honey pomelo production in Fujian production areas has grown larger…

Chinese mushrooms command strong advantages overseas

"China has rich mushroom resources and was also one of the earliest countries to cultivate them. In recent years, mushrooms produced in China have received more and more…

"Price of Thai coconuts is rising"

Coconuts are an important product in the Chinese market. Even when the weather is gradually growing colder, Chinese consumers still show a strong demand for coconuts. The…

High demand for Spanish strawberries keeps prices high

According to the weekly report of the Prices and Markets Observatory of Andalusia on the berry production of week 2 of 2020 (January 6 to 12), the 2019/20 strawberry and…

Teboza expanding, contrary to the market

"Mild winter and dry summer will affect Dutch asparagus cultivation"

At Teboza, the new Dutch asparagus season is about to start again. "We will start harvesting in the heated greenhouses this week. From Monday, the first asparagus will be…

French protesters cut power to largest produce market in the world

Last week, French union CGT-Énergie informed its members about the ongoing strikes and demonstrations against president Emmanuel Macron's proposed changes to the country's…

Rimini 2nd to 6th of May

Strawberry Symposium 2020 organization working at full speed

The International Strawberry Symposium 2020 will take place in Rimini on 2nd-6th May 2020. It is organized by Università Politecnica delle Marche and Consiglio per la ricerca…

Christophe Artero, FDA International:

“We have three nice projects for 2020”

FDA International will be present this year again at Fruit Logistica. Fleuron d’Anjou, branch of the cooperative, will take the opportunity to present its three major projects…

Philippe Dekerle, Acquette SARL – Ferme de l’Artois:

“We can supply our clients with French onions all year round”

Although the onion market suffered a major shortage during the last season, SARL Acquette, specialized in the production, packaging and marketing of onions, was able to supply…

Ramazan Gülnar (Paris Direkt) sees double-digit sales growth for wild and cultivated mushrooms

"In the future we want to concentrate increasingly on organic vVtal mushrooms for the food retail trade"

For the mushroom industry, the Christmas season is usually followed by a short period of rest. Also for Ramazan Gülnar, managing director of Paris Direkt LLC with its seat in…

Transition from fossil-fuel-based plastics to recyclable or biodegradable

They have had biodegradable and recyclable packaging options for the last five years. However, until recently, there was not so much demand for these. “Partly because of the…

Leo van der Giesen and Niels van Nunen of Aartsen:

"Complete South African package under the Mamba label"

Aartsen is a Dutch fruit and vegetable wholesaler. This season, for the first time, they have a complete South African fruit assortment under their house brand, Mamba.…

Hans Muylaert-Gelein, The Yukon Group

South African mini-veg market leader turns to chillies

The Yukon Group, the largest producer of mini-vegetables, specialty vegetables and edible flowers in South Africa, has been offering clients a year-round comprehensive…

Compañía Aguacatera del Sur: “Our main strategy is still working with the best”

"We will seek a balance between exporter expectations and the capacity of European operators"

Compañía Aguacatera del Sur has taken stock of the 2019 avocado campaign in Europe and analyzed the forecasts of what is coming in the 2020 campaign. "It has been a season…

EU-Vietnam free trade deal gets green light in trade committee

The Committee on International Trade backed the free trade and investment protection agreements between the EU and Vietnam on Tuesday. The committee gave its…

REO Veiling sells first cucumbers of the season

On Friday 17 January, the first cucumbers of the new growing season were sold by REO Veiling. With the sale of the first cucumbers, the new growing season has now completely…

Red Moon® sold out

The Red Moon® commercial campaign started at the end of October 2019 and has already been successfully completed. Richard Clementi, sales manager of Clementi srl and…

Rathenau Institute, the Netherlands

"Hybrid potato breeding offers worldwide opportunities"

Hybrid potato breeding can contribute to environmental sustainability and food security. It also offers opportunities for the global market. Timely steering is…

Eosta announces ambitious initiatives

European organic produce importer-marketer Eosta has revealed the imminent launch of two initiatives – a refocused, expanded Dr GoodFood campaign and a new range of…

The topic of plant protection at the Onion Forum 2020

Video Chemicals, fire and pink flies

Plant protection was a central topic at the Onion Forum 2020, which took place last week in St. Martin in the Pfalz. It could be said this is the most important of the topics…

Growth in imports of non-EU fruits and vegetables

In the period between January and October 2019, the value of the EU's fruit and vegetable imports from third countries stood at 14,591 million Euro, 2% more…

Andalusian citrus fruit prices above those of the previous campaign

According to data from the Prices and Markets Observatory of the Government of Andalusia, the average prices reached by Andalusian citrus fruits so far in the 2019/20 campaign…

Try eating more nuts, kiwis, cherries or lettuce

Eat healthy, sleep better

Studies have confirmed that various food stuffs (lettuce, nuts, kiwis, cherries, and much more) increase sleep duration and sleep quality. A recent study from researchers at…

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