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Global ginger oversupply pushes prices down

Supplies of ginger from Peru are currently stable and in fact ample. “For organic ginger, there should be less supply for Europe than last year because there are new organic…

Lime prices expected to pick back up towards Thanksgiving

The supply of limes is currently ample coming out of Mexico. “There is no lack of supply at this time and the sizes are mainly 200s and larger because we are nearing the end…

Financial results for Q3 and first 9 months

Dole sees revenue increase in Q3

Dole plc released its financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022. Revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2022 increased to $2.3 billion from…

Rail strike still possible after third union rejects WH deal

The threat of a nationwide rail strike is still possible, FOX Business reported on Nov. 14, after a third union rejected the September deal brokered by the…

First Trailblazer Award winner named for food and beverage industry

Lori Taylor, founder and CEO of The Produce Moms® announced this week the creation of The Produce Moms Trailblazer Award which recognizes an individual who has made a unique…

Peruvian Avocado Commission and Los Angeles Rams announce sweepstakes winners

The Los Angeles Rams and Avocados from Peru announced the winners of their multi-prize sweepstakes during the November 13th pre-game show prior to the RAMS vs Cardinals. The…

Eastern Produce Council

Leadership class tours New Jersey greenhouses

The fourth Eastern Produce Council (EPC) Leadership Class benefited from an informative tour of Hionis Greenhouses in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, on November 14. After the…

Substantial channel shifts affect fresh produce in October

The share of meals prepared at home remained elevated in October, at a consumer estimated 78.4 percent of all occasions, according to the IRI survey of primary grocery…

Mexico's first online supermarket delivers longer-lasting berries

SAVRpak, a food tech innovation company announced its moisture control technology that extends the shelf-life of produce up to three times will be made available through…

Ag faculty member devising new drug-delivery tactic for citrus greening disease

Purdue University’s Kurt Ristroph has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop nanocarriers…

Special Greenhouse

CO.SER

CO.SER:

"Requests mainly for single greenhouses as most large producers are waiting for a drop in the price of raw materials"

The greenhouse sector has endured shocking increases over the past few years: the main one concerns the cost of steel, which has skyrocketed. However, the prices of raw…

Global Focus Citrus

Persistent drought slows down Nadorcott season in Morocco

Morocco is largely under the threshold of water shortage. Many crops, including Nadorcotts, are marking time but producers remain confident in the solidity of the industry.…

Autonomous robots to help modernize grape industry

Next spring, a small army of Cornell-developed PhytoPatholoBots (PPB) will be deployed to four grape breeding programs across the U.S. on a mission to guide the global grape…

Apple committee receives two specialty crop block grants

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced the Michigan Apple Committee as a recipient of two grants from the 2022 USDA…

Market and crop update for November 17, 2022

Plenty of demand for Colorado onions

OnionBusiness has released the weekly market and crop update. MARKETColorado Western Slope:Don Ed Holmes with The Onion House in Weslaco, TX, told us on Nov. 16…

Pineapple, chocolate and coffee part of special holiday gift boxes from Hawaii

The global fresh produce leader Dole is offering pineapple, chocolate and coffee as part of special gift boxes all grown on its estate in Hawaii. People can order Dole's Ohana or…

Processed fruit and veg consumption driven by changing diets, busy lifestyles

Processed fruit and vegetables have seen an increased uptake, after the Covid-19 lockdowns, as well as people's changing diet and busy lifestyles. The EU has…

Hargill mexfly quarantine removed in Texas

Federal and state agriculture officials on Sept. 21 removed the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) quarantine in Hargill, Willacy County, Texas, after three…

Argentina's blueberry exports halved in 2022

Argentina's blueberry forecasts are not positive for exporters this season. According to Alejandro Pannunzio, president of the Association of Blueberry…

Rain, hail and frost had minimal impact on Chilean blueberries

According to information provided by the Blueberry Committee of Chile-ASOEX, with the support of IQonsulting, producers in the Central and Central-South zone…

Peruvian Hass avocado export to the United States increased by 46.4% in 2022

In the 2022 campaign, Peruvian Hass avocado accounted for 10% of the US market's avocado imports. Peru exported 125,395 tons of Hass avocados to the United…

Ecuador's yellow pitahaya reaches the Peruvian market

Ecuador exported its first shipment of yellow pitahaya to Peru on November 14, after Peru's National Agrarian Health Service (SENASA) authorized the…

USDA China: 2022 Fresh Avocado Report

China sees 11% increase in avocado imports from Peru

Peru continues to be the leading supplier of avocadoes to China with 26 000 MT in 2021 and already standing at 11% more this year, followed by Mexico with 13…

Rio Grande do Norte plans to boost fruit exports at the Port of Natal

In a virtual meeting held on 10th November plans were discussed to expand fruit exports from the Port of Natal in the Rio Grande do Norte state of Brazil. The…

USDA Chile: Avocado annual

Estimate for Chilean avocado production down by 18.2% in 2022/23

In marketing year (MY) 2022/23, Post estimates that avocado production will decrease by 18.2 percent from MY 2021/22, totaling 180,000 metric tons (MT) due to…

Chile: Helicopters activated to save cherry crops after rain

Emergency protocols have been activated in south central Chile to save crops from unusually heavy spring rains. With cherries bound for export threatened, four…

Henk van der Mey addresses Peruvian mango sector at APEM trade show:

"Don't shoot yourself in the foot"

Hars&Hagebauer's Henk van der Meij recently returned from a trip through Peru's mango cultivation areas of Casma and Piura. "In Piura, the season's about to start, although…

Kees Versteeg - Qualipac

"Overall domestic onion production volumes seem to be way below previous season"

The 2022 eastern Australia floods were one of the nation's worst recorded flood disasters, with a series of floods that occurred from February to April in South East…

Melons Australia

Australian melon industry seeking to open up export opportunities in Japan after recent grower visit

Australia's peak melon industry body has recognised a number of opportunities for export, particularly in the Japanese market, which it is hoping to open up through the…

Egyptian citrus prices are expected to remain stable this season

In a very memorable year for Egyptian citrus in terms of quality, but difficult in terms of commercial challenges, Egyptian citrus exporters want to maintain attractive…

Avihay Wein: Aviv export Israel

“We are known for our high quality fresh herbs that are asked for by our clients.”

“We are known for our high quality fresh herbs that are asked for by our clients,” says Avihay Wein, Marketing Manager of Aviv export, based in Israel. They specialize in the…

Sam Vasala - Sai World

“In Australia we are used to having exceptionally high quality fruit"

Sai World’s growers in New South Wales picked the first of this season’s cherries this week, they are being packed ready to be sent to India, Singapore, Malaysia and…

“Portuguese avocado volumes are progressively increasing year after year”

The Portuguese avocado season is on its way. As Global Avocados CEO João Bento Inácio reports, they’ve wrapped up the Bacon avocado season and are getting ready for the Hass…

Pieter Buys – SAMGA

Tommy Atkins crop will be down, but a good average expected from later mangoes

South African mango growers hope that the size of their Tommy Atkins mangoes will make up for what was not a very good pollination and fruit set, despite abundant flowering,…

Tim O'Malley - Nationwide Produce & British Onion Producers Association

British onion production down 100,00 t, EU down 1million tons

Back in early October Tim O'Malley, Managing Director at Nationwide Produce warned - “don’t underestimate the drought”.He said we are now starting to see the stats coming through…

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Anniversary for the Pink Lady

Swiss grown for 20 years now

Pink Lady is celebrating its anniversary! Pink Ladys have been in the shops for 20 years now, grown in Switzerland. The Pink Lady success story began in 1973, in Western…

CIV at Interpoma Bolzano with the latest apple tree innovations

Chairman Mauro Grossi: "We invite all operators to come and visit us at the CIV booth to discover all the latest news from our breeding program, such as our latest CIVM65/Desy…

Moldovan growers offered to increase the production of organic apples

A feasibility study for the transfer of apple orchards in the Republic of Moldova to an organic growing system will be carried out in November 2022 – February…

Europatat sends joint letter on new genomic techniques

Europatat, together with other 26 agri-food value chain partners, has sent a letter to the Commission welcoming the plans for an Initiative on New Genomic…

Dutch apple and pear acreage is stable

Last year, the Dutch apple and pear acreage remained virtually unchanged. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, that is 5,911 ha for apples and 10,099…

Co-workers can influence healthy eating choices

The workplace can encourage a more wholesome lifestyle in employees regarding the consumption of healthy foods like fruit and vegetables, but it does not…

Uzbekistan:

Organic strawberries and raspberries are grown in the highlands of the Tashkent region

Organic raspberries and strawberries of remontant varieties of foreign selection are grown on 4 ha in the Bustanlyk district of the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan, in areas…

Medicinal mushrooms the next big trend?

Certain types of functional fungi, namely medicinal mushrooms, are seemingly the next big wellness trend, but the use of medicinal mushrooms goes back to the…

Austrian potato variety trials successful

Austria held potato variety trials on 16 cultivars at four different locations, some of which were under severe drought during the year. The Austrian Agency…

Bangladesh to plant more onions to secure supply

The government of Bangladesh, through agriculture minister Abdur Razzaque, encouraged the cultivation of onions during the summer off season to ensure supply. While…

Bangladesh urges Iraq to import more fresh produce

Bangladesh has urged Iraq to import fresh produce such as potatoes, mangoes and a mix of other vegetables from their country. The trade between the two countries…

India's Hubballi market sees 50% drop in onion arrivals

The local supply of onions to India's Hubballi APMC market in Karnataka has dropped by 50%. This is due to producers who are hit by the heavy rain being unable…

Potato market update 16 November:

25% of Ireland's main potato crop still to be harvested

Irish growers continue to harvest where possible, with some progress being made in the last week but conditions were very difficult. While some growers are…

Philippines to import 7000 metric tons of red onions to counter high prices

The Philippines government is considering importing 7 000 metric tons of red onions after retail prices hit P300 ($5.2) per kg, well above the P170 ($2.96)…

Swiss parliamentarian demands that air freighted produce be declared in stores

Parliamentarians in Switzerland, through National Counsellor, Christine Badertscher from the Greens, has demanded that all food arriving by plane must be…

Thai seasonal berry pickers in Scandinavia get raw deal

Seasonal wild berry pickers from Thailand who work in Sweden and Finland have asked their Asian government for help to deal with rogue labour brokers. The workers…

Vietnam fruit and veg exports to China 44% higher in October

Vietnam's fresh produce exports to China increased by 44% during October, earning them revenue of $152 million. Exports from Vietnam is set to rise even more…

Carrier Transicold supported Pacific International Lines to expand its reefer container inventory

Carrier Transicold, a part of Carrier Global Corporation, a global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions, recently…

Retail

Dreamstime

Metro: Q4 profit down from year ago

Q3 sales edge up amid earnings plunge for Target

Canada: Loblaw says supplier cost increases continue, shoppers turn to discount banners and private label in Q3Loblaw Companies Limited said it has few levers at its disposal…

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