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Senior Packing Supervisor - Warragul, Australia

Assistant Grower - Stevensburg (Virginia) USA

Greenhouse Manager/Head Grower - Devens (MA) USA

Irrigation and Fertigation Engineer - Berlin, Germany

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Outlook on the new season with Vanguard’s Dirk Winkelmann

“New grape varieties accounted for only 38% of Peru’s crop last season”

While grape harvest has already started in Northern Peru, harvest for the South/Central region is still more than two months away. “Vanguard Peru’s ranches are situated in the…

Clēan Works Corporation

Dry produce cleaning treatment extends shelf-life while killing bacteria and viruses

The Moyer family settled in Ontario in 1799 and have been farming in the Niagara Peninsula ever since. In keeping with tradition, Paul Moyer is the 9th generation of Moyer…

Hurricane Laura heads for the US after bringing heavy rain and wind to the Caribbean

While downgrading Hurricane Marco to a Tropical Storm as it landed Monday night at the mouth of the Mississippi River brought some relief to regional growers, they were hoping…

Foodservice demand for potatoes still off

Supplies of potatoes for processed potato products is good. “For us, transition worked out fairly well. We transitioned old crop into fresh as best we could and then we ran a…

US retail sales report

Produce sales in calendar year 2020 are $4.5 billion ahead of 2019 sales

Five months after two of the biggest weeks in the history of food retailing, consumer demand for fresh, frozen and center-store food and beverages continues to ride well above…

Rainier Fruit becomes first EFI-certified establishment in Washington state’s fruit industry

Rainier Fruit has achieved Equitable Food Initiative certification for its largest farm of over 2,300 acres. For the past three years, both companies have worked to align EFI…

Organics Unlimited to celebrate 15th annual Grow Month throughout September

Organics Unlimited, San Diego-based grower and distributor of organic tropical fruit, will celebrate its 15th annual Grow Month throughout the month of September. The campaign,…

How retailers can use shifts in consumer needs to drive pineapple sales

About 85 percent of Americans have changed their food habits since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, according to a survey from The International Food Information Council.…

Bridges Organic Produce

"By 1st week of September we'll have promotable volumes on Green Bartletts, Red Bartletts, and Starkrimson"

As August winds down so will most summer fruit and in its place beautiful organic NW pears will appear. Bridges Produce started shipping organic pears out of Hood River,…

Frey Farms

Official start of the pumpkin season announced

In celebration of the release of founding farmer Sarah Frey’s book, The Growing Season, Frey Farms announces the official start of the pumpkin season. Frey is entering a new…

Special Latin America

Verba Odrec (Panama)

"The pineapple that is exported by air achieves a better ripening that highlights its sweetness"

Shipping pineapples by air has allowed the Panamanian company Verba Odrec, which has more than 70 years of experience in agricultural production, to diversify…

Global Focus Soft/Stonefruit

New Sun City Elifab cherry line exceeds expectations

As planned, Sun City Cherries of Kelowna, BC went live with their new cherry line in early July. Notwithstanding the challenges presented by the COVID-19 crisis, the new Elifab…

Retail

BJ’s Wholesale Club adds fresh and frozen grocery items to buy online, pickup services

Lidl US plans to open 50 new stores by the end of 2021

US: SpartanNash brings contactless payments to shoppersSpartanNash, seeking to keep up safety efforts during the pandemic, has revealed that 155 of its stores in nine states…

Kravka

APHIS returns quarantine experts

Vietnam to resume fruit exports to the US

This week, the export of Vietnamese fresh fruit to the US will resume, following the interruption since early August due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of…

Takcrane3

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study

California temperatures by 2045 will be too high for some crops

Record drought and heat have some farmers worried about where and when crops can be grown in the future, even in California where unprecedented microclimate…

John Hannon

California’s melon crop is underway

The California melon harvest is underway in many parts of the valley. The Golden State is the largest melon source in the United States, with about 60% of cantaloupe and 80%…

FPAA announces promotion of Emmis Yubeta and Georgina Felix

In order to ensure growth in a changing environment, the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas is making strategic changes that tap into the full strength of its staff…

Durham, North Carolina

Pairwise: US food tech start-up is close to marketing leafy greens

At Pairwise, a food tech company in Durham that uses gene-editing tools to accelerate innovation in fruits and vegetables, they have something in the works…

Fotocella

Washington state potato industry averts worst case scenario during pandemic

The potato industry of Washington State has lost $995,000,000 due to the pandemic, but according Chris Voigt of the Washington Potato Commission, things could…

Watermelon continues to find place in foodservice outlets

Watermelon continues to find its place on menus throughout the country despite the rapidly changing foodservice landscape. Partnering with both quick service and full service…

Favco launches premium mandarin brand

Favco has launched their new OPAL brand of premium mandarins with the commencement of the Honey Murcott mandarin season this week. The fruit is grown and shipped directly from…

New Zealand plum growers hopeful of a longer, more fruitful summer season

Hawke’s Bay plum grower Mike Russell is excited about the coming season, with the adoption of new growing techniques paying dividends in recent years. "I am experimenting with…

Will Chile take advantage of low Australian avocado volume?

Avocados are in short supply in Australia just now, especially in Western Australia, this is mostly down to weather issues. A cold snap through flowering and then a couple of…

Chilean truckers call for an indefinite national strike

The latest attacks on trucks in Chile, where 535 vehicles have been set on fire so far, have led the Federation of Truck Owners of the South (Fedesur) to…

Wim Boon, Farmforte

“The European market has a juicing orange shortage”

For citrus, especially oranges, 2020 has, so far, been extraordinary. Demand rose because of the global coronavirus outbreak. This fruit is known as a rich…

Consumer preference for microgreens

Microgreens are tender immature greens of wild species, herbs, grains, or vegetables, harvested upon the emergence of the first pair of true leaves. Microgreens are analogous…

A lot of interest for PolyFilm-Plus, ideal for Crimson grapes

"Over the past two year, the interest in PolyFilm-Plus covers installed on Crimson grapes has noticeably grown, so much so that orders have increased by around 60% in just a…

The unique Dutch cultivation of watercress

You can often find watercress on menus in France and England. Watercress soup is a particularly well-known dish. But watercress farmers are few and far between in the…

Video Fresh Forward Breeding joins Breeding Accel

Breeding Accel was founded in 2014, when KP Holland, Schoneveld Breeding, Sion Orchids and Interplant Roses joined forces in order to minimalize the “Time to Market” for new…

More room for robust, tasty herbs

At Buysman Kruiden, they’re dedicated to cultivating potted herbs of the highest quality. The herbs have lots of space, and the company uses innovative, sustainable methods.…

Dan Coetzee -Capespan

"At Capespan we continue to look at new ways to add value to the supply chain"

Sustainable farming and visibility of the fresh produce supply chain is key to building a strong partnership with retailers. Today’s consumers are also keen on knowing where…

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