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Sales Engineer North America

European market Sales Representative: Cut Flower crops

Head Grower - Niagara-on-the-Lake (ON) Canada

“Mayesh” Sales Representative - Los Angeles (CA) USA

“Mayesh” Branch Buyer - Los Angeles (CA) USA

“Mayesh” Branch Manager - Phoenix (AZ) USA

Berry Grower - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

MIP Manager - Denver (Colorado) USA

LED Cultivation Product Specialist

Greenhouse Technical Consultant - Quebec, Canada

Papaya supplies could stay tight until 2022

Supplies of imported papayas could remain tight until the beginning of 2022. Supplies of the exotic fruit have been on the shorter side for the past few months. “It’s likely…

Pennsylvania welcomes stronger apple crop

Pennsylvania is coming into a larger apple crop this season. “We have a really nice crop--great flavor and quality with higher volumes across most varieties,” says Brenda…

Idaho sees 40 percent reduction in 2021-2022 onion crop

Idaho onions have finished with harvest and one grower says there’s a 40 percent reduction in the crop over last year. “I attribute it to five different things,” says Shay…

Substantial growth expected for upcoming Chilean cherry season

Fall has arrived, and that means the Chilean cherry season is around the corner. Chile projects that cherry exports to the U.S. will see substantial growth in 2021/22, and for…

Vertical strawberry farm makes Los Angeles home for West Coast expansion

Oishii is opening its newest farm in Los Angeles, making Oishii’s strawberries available outside of the greater New York area for the first time. Oishii - which means…

US organic fresh produce sales continue outpacing conventional growth

Total organic fresh produce sales for the third quarter of 2021 saw a continuation of year-over-year growth, increasing by three percent from the same period last year and…

Love Beets USA announces expanded portfolio under new name

Value-added beet company, Love Beets USA, has launched their new venture, Offshoot Brands. The evolution reflects their expanding portfolio of exclusive healthy lifestyle…

Greenhouse lettuce grower acquires East Coast operation

North AmericaPR greenhouse lettuce grower Revol Greens has acquired BJ’s Produce Inc., operating under the widely recognized Living Fresh brand, in Athens, GA. This…

Inflation prompted some shifts in September fruit and vegetable demand

September continued where August left off. “The multi-month normalization of consumption and grocery shopping patterns came to a halt in August hand-in-hand with an uptick in…

Valle Verde became the country's leading exporter of Tahiti lime

"We want to organize the entire Colombian lime industry to access North American and European markets"

Valle Verde, the Tahiti lime packing and cold storage plant in Apartado (Antioquia), became Colombia's largest exporter of Tahiti limes in August. According to…

Special Avocados

‘Perfect storm’ drives Australian avocado prices down to $1

A massive avocado oversupply means Australian farmers are struggling to offload their fruit for a decent price. Sources say several growers have had to dump their crops or…

Global Focus Top Fruit

"Overall production volume of Chinese apples declined by 20% this year"

New harvest of red Fuji apples from Yantai enters Chinese market in mid-October

Yantai is one of the main production areas of red Fuji apples in China. The new harvest will enter the Chinese market in the middle of October. The production areas still…

Retail

Dreamstime

Reasor’s has partnered with Grocery Shopii

Invafresh has expanded its partnership with Coborn’s

US: Pickup/delivery gain online grocery sales share in SeptemberDespite a double-digit decline in ship-to-home business, U.S. online grocery sales and order volume remained…

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Sales Engineer North America

Maine 2021 potato harvest said to be looking good

The Maine Potato Board stated that the harvest, which is wrapping up right now, has about 8,000 new acres of production, which it says is necessary to meet the…

Deal expands FreshEdge’s Michigan footprint

Vine Line joins FreshEdge

FreshEdge, a family of produce and specialty food companies backed by Rotunda Capital Partners, acquired Vine Line, a fresh produce distributor located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Vine…

USDA

Statement by Commissioner Nikki Fried on 2021-22 Citrus Forecast

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released the initial citrus crop forecast for the 2021-22 season. The forecast includes an increase in Specialty Citrus production and…

Gladstone Land acquires nut orchard and option to purchase stored water in California

Gladstone Land Corporation announced that it has acquired 1,284 gross acres of farmland, including over 1,200 planted acres of pistachios and almonds (a…

Penn State University

Penn State research

Novel lighting system created for agri-robot machine vision

An innovative camera system, using active lighting, has been devised by Penn State researchers. It may be a crucial step in developing machine vision systems that…

To fuel development of AI in agriculture

Ceres Imaging secures $23 mln in Series C funding

Ceres Imaging, the precision farming provider that uses aerial imagery and data analytics to help growers improve their farming practices, today announced that…

Brighter Bites announces partnership with new marketing agency

Brighter Bites, a nonprofit organization that delivers fresh fruits, vegetables and nutrition education resources directly into families’ hands, announces DMA…

Post-secondary scholarships offered by grape growers

Three types of university/college scholarships are now available to students in the table grape growing regions of California. Two types of scholarships are…

Bruce James Meikle – Wiserow Enterprises

Zimbabwean blueberry growers note increased market competition

Four weeks of blueberry harvesting remain at Wiserow Enterprises in Marondera, southeast of Harare in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, where the first rains of the season fell this…

Most Australian mangoes are now monitored to ensure a profit

Having mangoes arrive in export markets at the right quality and ripeness can mean the difference between exporters making a profit or loss, and good temperature management is…

The Kissabel® season kicks off in the UK, France and Switzerland

With the first harvest of the Jaune and Orange varieties in the second half of September, the Kissabel® apple season is kicking off for the partners of the Ifored project in…

“The quality of Polish apples speaks for itself this season”

Polish apple exporters are satisfied with the quality of the crops this season, but the production costs have also increased significantly. One exporter explains that they’ve…

Liquidseal now offers a total solution with an application machine

'One and One makes three'

Recently Liquidseal has launched the option to rent an application machine. This allows their shelf-life-extending coating to be applied. First they had Liquidseal, now they…

Chinese apple supply at risk due to hailstorms in Shaanxi Province

Last month, the average price of Chinese apples rose by 1.7% m-o-m to USD 1,115/MT due to several extreme weather events in the northwest of China. China is…

Australian-Chinese relations impact table grape and citrus exports

Political troubles with China have affected the Australian table grape export market to the tune of $168.4 million. While much attention has gone to losses by…

The growth in shipments from Egypt stands out

EU orange imports from third countries have decreased by 12.3% in 2021

According to the latest report on the "Strengthened monitoring of EU citrus imports" that was published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food,…

Dreamstime

Basel University:

Solve food fraud efficiently and cost-effectively

Counterfeit foods, especially goods with false claims of geographical origin, cause billions of dollars in economic damage every year. Botanists at the…

Peruvian 'ethnic' products have potential in Spain

Peru is known as an important supplier of fruit and vegetable products in Europe. According to Peru's Commercial Economic Counselor in Spain, Joan Manuel…

Best-selling products were avocados, up 43.3% in relation to first months 2020

Peru leads the growth of non-traditional exports in the region

Peru spearheaded the growth of non-traditional exports among the main economies of the region, seeing an interannual expansion rate of 25.7% in the…

"This type of freezing is much quicker and results in higher product quality"

OctoFrost has come a long way in the frozen food processing industry by listening to its customers’ needs and working together with experts in the food industry. OctoFrost…

The future of freight transport:

MAN and HHLA pioneer Logistics 4.0 with the autonomous Hamburg TruckPilot

MAN Truck & Bus and Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) have successfully completed the joint project Hamburg TruckPilot, setting a milestone in automated container…

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