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State Specialist/Extension Professor of Plant Pathology - Durham (NH) USA

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Avocado supplies down with Mexican crop transition

Supplies of avocados are down somewhat even with fruit being sourced from multiple regions currently. “As Mexico transitions into the Flor Loca crop, and the California season…

Home compostable and recyclable sleeve packaging now on retail shelves

CKF, Inc.’s Earthcycle brand of home compostable and recyclable packaging has expanded its range of sustainable options for its customers to encase their fresh produce by…

Sunset® celebrates double award win

Sunset® is celebrating a double win for two of its newest products at the Superior Taste Awards presented by the International Taste Institute in Brussels,…

Canadian farmers are growing more certified organic vegetables

In 2020, certified organic fruit and vegetable farmers grew and sold more produce, despite adverse weather conditions and labor shortages amid the pandemic.…

New community center opens thanks to Fairtrade banana program

On July 5th, Coliman Bananas and Fairtrade inaugurated the first stage of the "Fairtrade Sociocultural Complex", a Community Center located in Tecomán, Colima, Mexico. A total…

Peruvian blueberries begin shipping in August

Once the North American blueberry season wanes, Peru’s long growing season, steady climate and greenhouse-like growing conditions will provide retailers and consumers with a…

New Texas youth networking group hosts first event

The Texas International Produce Association (TIPA) has formed a new networking group called Y-TIPA. This committee is specifically for TIPA members under the age of 35. The…

US fresh produce sales remain ahead in first half of 2021

The first half of 2021 is on the books and 210 Analytics, IRI and the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) partnered to understand how fresh produce performed…

Maersk reports on British Columbia Wildfire impact on service

Today’s update on the Port of Vancouver operations and the wildfires in the Lytton, BC area of Western Canada, impacting the main rail access route into the…

USDA

USDA: 2021 California almond forecast down 10 percent

California's 2021 almond production is forecast at 2.80 billion meat pounds, down 13% from May's subjective forecast and 10% lower than last year's record crop of 3.12 billion…

Special Automation

NVIDIA & University of Southern California:

DiSECt – a differentiable simulation engine for autonomous robotic cutting

Robotics researchers from NVIDIA and the University of Southern California presented their work at the 2021 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference. It…

Global Focus Soft/Stonefruit

Agreste

French peaches: Price increase due to decline in production

Agreste, the bureau for statistics of the French Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has published a note of conjuncture for the French peach. “As of July 1st…

Retail

Dreamstime

GrubMarket has completed the acquisition of Pacific Farm Management

SpartanNash plans to open its first Micro-Fulfillment Center

US: Dollar General seeks more workers ahead of Labor DayDollar General has set an ambitious goal of opening 1,050 new stores in its fiscal 2021 and is gearing up to support…

Normalized demand, not regulation, will solve supply chain delays

The Covid-19 cargo congestion brought on by extreme demand in combination with operational disruptions is very real and felt across supply chains globally. In the U.S. in…

Natural Delights expands team with promotions and new hires

Bard Valley Natural Delights® announces the expansion of its team with two new hires and two internal promotions which will support the ongoing growth of the…

Chilean cherry packer achieved 60% water and 48% fungicide reductions

AgroFresh announces global expansion of Control-Tec™ sustainability technology systems

AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. announced the expanded availability of Control-Tec™ sustainability technology systems across North America, South America, Europe and…

PMA Foodservice exhibitor to showcase fresh-cut line

As foodservice operations get back up and running, consumers are eager to dine out. More than 3.7 million consumers visited a restaurant via Yelp in May 2021,…

US Highbush Blueberry Council

Michigan blueberry grower named chair of USHBC

Michigan blueberry grower Shelly Hartmann has been named chair of the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC). Hartmann, who co-owns True Blue Farms with her…

VerticalFarmDaily.com

80 Acres Farms to offer strawberries this winter

"Strawberries are a pain point for consumers"

80 Acres Farms is expanding operations and has its sights trained on a new product: strawberries. Sweet and low-down to the ground, strawberries get hosed down…

Maine growers hope for better potato season

Fields in northern Maine's Aroostook County are starting to get full of many white, purple, and pink flowers. It's the time of year where people start to see…

The Bayh–Dole Act and its effects on agricultural innovation

The Bayh–Dole Act or Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act is US legislation dealing with inventions arising from federal government-funded research.…

Odepa's analysis of Chile's fruit exports in the first half of 2021

Chile exported 1.68 million tons of fresh fruit

Between January and June 2021, Chile exported 2.04 million tons of fruits for $ 4.441 billion dollars FOB – without considering the Value Variation Report –,…

Chile expects to export 14% more clementines than in the 2020 campaign

The Citrus Committee of Chile ASOEX has updated the forecasts for the 2021 citrus season, increasing the volumes of clementines for this campaign to 59,000…

KZN farmers donate vegetables, Durban fresh produce market remains closed

As smoke clears after 6 days of mayhem, citrus association urges "seriousness" of the situation

As the smoke clears and the clean-up has started, KwaZulu-Natal residents have to get up long before sunrise to join the queues outside the few shops that are open. Fuel…

UN envoy says at Pinduoduo forum

"Technology is critical to transforming global food system"

The world is facing challenges in achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and technological innovation could play critical roles in transforming the…

Still no full opening of hospitality in Ireland

Ireland is still technically in lockdown, it's one the last European countries to reopen. On the 6th of June outdoor dining was reopened with inside dining supposed to follow…

Positive kiwi berry season predicted for Portuguese grower

“This is turning out to be our best season yet,” according to Luis Sousa of The Land of Jershon, a kiwi grower based on Portugual. The kiwi berry season is set to start on the…

Marcus Post, DLG Logistics, the Netherlands

"By year's end, QR code might replace phytosanitary certificate stamp"

The United Kingdom's empty fruit and vegetable shelves are dominating the news headlines. Tesco has reported that, weekly, they have to discard almost 50,000 tons of fresh…

Turkish apple cultivation sees significant growth over past years

“We plan to start the apple season on August 10th with the Gala varieties”

The Turkish apple season is set to start in less than a month. Turkey’s apple cultivation has seen an explosive growth over the past five years and one Turkish fresh produce…

Mark Everett - Worldwide Fruit.

“For suppliers it is difficult to predict how the demand will be in the next 4-6-8 weeks"

Peru and South Africa are the main avocado suppliers to Europe and the UK at the moment. This is the peak seasons from those countries. Peru is supplying 64% of the EU market,…

Israel & UAE sign MOU to cooperate on agrotech and research & development

Yesterday, Israeli Agriculture Minister Oded Forer and United Arab Emirates Defense Minister Miriam Al-Mahiri signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding…

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