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Horticulture Specialist - Guelph (Ontario) Canada

Technical Director - Brussels, Belgium

Senior Maintenance Engineer - USA East coast greenhouse facility, location negotiable

Greenhouse Assistant - Abbotsford (BC) Canada

Technical Service Manager - remote, US based

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Grower Tomato Crops - Huron (Ohio) USA

Strong supply and demand on organic tomatoes

Organic tomatoes currently have strong volumes and are hitting peak supply in the coming weeks. “We continue to deepen and expand our supply and expect strong volume through Q1,”…

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Limited supplies bring high demand and pricing for Costa Rica pineapples

The new year has started off with limited supplies, high demand and high prices on the pineapple market. The holidays saw a big increase in volumes shipped, and now that the…

Ontario-based grower hires new GM for Mexico greenhouse

Nature Fresh Farms welcomes Robert Van Der Geest as general manager to its Mexico team. Nature Fresh Farms has financially invested in the operation of a…

Limoneira sees lower revenue in Fourth Quarter 2020 compared to previous year

The Limoneira Company, a diversified citrus growing, packing, selling and marketing company with related agribusiness activities and real estate development…

Pharr International Bridge plans for major expansion in coming years

The Pharr International Bridge, which provides a direct connection between the US and Mexico and is located in Pharr, Texas, has been seeing major expansion in recent years…

Vegetable supplier opens fifth facility in California

Mann Packing Co., Inc., a subsidiary of Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. and a supplier of packaged vegetables in North America, has opened a new facility in…

Canada: British Columbia fruit industry has lots of opportunities

These are certainly hard times for British Columbia’s apple industry, but all is not lost. According to Amritpal Singh, new varieties and a focus on quality…

USApple Market News Report

US apple stocks 13.1% lower compared with same time last year

The January 2021 edition of the US Apple Association's Market News is now available. This is the third report on the 2020 apple crop According to the survey, this year's fresh…

United Fresh announces class two of produce safety immersion program

United Fresh Produce Association announced the class two fellows of the Produce Safety Immersion Program, sponsored by Renaissance Food Group at the gold…

Individuals not responsibly connected to past WA violator

USDA cites North Carolina company for PACA violations

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on Wayne Bailey Inc., Chadbourn, N.C., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.…

Special Latin America

CarSol anticipates positive blueberry season Chile

General manager of CarSol Fruit SA, Álvaro Prieto, is expecting a positive blueberry season. He highlighted that -so far- better yields have been observed than…

Global Focus Grapes

ASAJA denounces the collapse of New Year's Eve grape prices

"Large supermarkets are bringing down the prices of Christmas grapes due to competition"

The organization ASAJA Alicante has denounced the price drops suffered by the bagged table grapes of Vinalopó, specifically of the Aledo variety. This is a…

Retail

Dreamstime

Amazon Top U.S. Grocery Retailer for the 2021 dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index

HelloFresh has opened a new distribution center

US: Walmart announces creation of new fintech startupWalmart announced the creation of a new fintech startup designed to develop and offer modern, innovative and affordable…

U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement Seasonal Perishable Products Weekly Update

For many commodities, lower supplies at this time seem to moderate prices and demand

The holiday season has ended and the associated demand for certain types of produce has passed, even as several growing areas will end their harvest seasons or face seasonal…

Changing climate impacts US blueberry growers

US blueberry farmers are adapting to changing climate and weather patterns in order to yield the best produce. “This is the time of year our plants go to…

Need for government funding continues for US citrus

The recently $1.4 trillion omnibus spending package for this fiscal year -for government programs approved by Congress- continues to fund programs to battle…

Paraguay's banana exports increase by 33%

According to data from the Single Export Window (VUE) of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) of Paraguay, in 2020 banana exports grew by 33% over the previous year,…

Argentina

The pear and apple harvest is about to start in the Upper Valley

The Upper Valley's pear harvest will begin in the middle of this week with the harvest of the Williams variety, one of the region's flagship varieties.…

Peruvian raspberry exports are expected to boom in the coming years

According to the Peruvian Foreign Trade Society (Comex Peru), raspberry is the fruit that will experience the highest increase in exports in the coming years.…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Belize at £0.86: 30% rise from last week

This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale…

Roel De Winter, ORCA, Belgium

"Good chicory year sadly ends with low prices"

“The year, 2020, was an excellent year for chicory. COVID-19 greatly increased the demand for this product. We got good prices for a good while. But, the year didn't end…

Innovative Fresh integrated in Normec Foodcare for a total package of quality related fruit and vegetable aspects

"When a tester examines a container of grapes, they have a direct impact on 50,000 consumers"

In 2007, Maud Jentjens and Jelger de Vriend founded Innovative Fresh to make the quality of fruit and vegetables on the fruit and vegetable shelf measurable in the belief that…

Ronald van Vossen, Angus Soft Fruits Europe:

"Our softfruit turnover increased by 418% in 2020 thanks to our different strategy and growth in retail"

"Across the board, we had quite a bit of activity in soft fruit during the holidays, but from week 53 onwards, the supply has been hit hard by the cold in Southern Europe. For…

"Mangos are very delicate to process"

Because mango is a very tender piece of fruit, it's often peeled by hand. The main USP's of ZTI's machines are longer shelf life and a better yield. Shelf life: Because the mango…

La Costiera has introduced innovations in its packaging and is ready for new foreign markets

The Sorrento PGI lemon season is in its early stages

The Sorrento PGI lemon season at La Costiera started on 1 January and will continue until 15 October. "This season comes with a new packaging, which will be used in addition…

Compagnia delle Primizie

Rossetta® strawberry production in full swing

The strawberry campaign has just started at Compagnia delle Primizie, the cooperative specializing in strawberry and small fruit production. For the new campaign, the…

OP Platinum

Increasing prices for Sicilian vegetables

It has been a fluctuating season for Sicilian vegetables, though things have been improving between the end of the past year and the first ten days of January 2021, especially…

Snow storm in Spain leading to increased demand for clementines

In Spain, storm Filomena has brought wintery conditions more typical of Scandinavian countries, with abundant rains, snowfalls and sub-zero temperatures in various parts of…

Virto Group again chooses Tomra and renews equipment at its main plant with eleven Nimbus BSI+ sorters

Virto Group, the largest frozen vegetable company in Spain and one of the most important in Europe, has again put its trust in TOMRA. The company has updated its main plant in…

Empty produce shelves predominantly due to Spanish veg shortage

There have been reports in the UK’s national media about empty produce shelves at the supermarkets, which they say are caused by Brexit but this may not be the…

Some consequences of Brexit:

British drivers have sandwiches confiscated at Dutch border

British drivers arriving by ferry from the UK have had their ham sandwiches confiscated. Customs officers have had to explain to drivers at the Hook of Holland…

Logistics still problematic when it comes to exporting produce from Turkey

“Demand for apples slightly lower this year, but still satisfactory”

The Turkish apple season is in full swing and although demand is slightly lower than it was last year, India has proven a good client. They’ve been importing the Turkish Red…

United Fresh releases trend report

Adapting to the new normal

There is no question that the world has changed immensely in the space of just 12 months. The unprecedented scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has touched the lives of every New Zealander…

Vietnamese automobile billionaire takes over HAGL Agrico

Vietnamese billionaire Tran Ba Duong, who founded THACO in 1997, a company that has grown to be the largest domestic automobile producer, has taken over as…

Working on ‘Carrot cement’

Root vegetables and ash could make concrete more sustainable

Concrete, being the universal building material of choice for countless structures, also has a huge environmental footprint mostly due to carbon dioxide…

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