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European market Sales Representative: Cut Flower crops

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

Sales Representative - Los Angeles (CA) USA

Branch Buyer - Los Angeles (CA) USA

Branch Manager - Phoenix (AZ) USA

Berry Grower - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

MIP Manager - Denver (Colorado) USA

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Greenhouse Technical Consultant - Quebec, Canada

Italian imported chestnut season getting underway

The imported chestnut season is just beginning out of Italy. Nick Pacia, CEO of Bronx, NY-based Trucco, Inc. notes that chestnut supplies are currently coming via air out of…

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Logistics issues challenge movement of import blueberries

Blueberry supplies are light currently. “The supply of blueberries from Mexico is lighter than originally forecast due to tight labor supply and weather issues. The import season…

Joint venture supports rapid growth of greenhouse grower

NatureSweet is expanding its operations through a joint venture with Ganfer, a high technology greenhouse grower in Mexico. The joint venture will add more than 200 acres to…

Partnership with NFL quarterback kicks off avocado promotion

Avocados From Mexico kicks off a new national shopper marketing campaign featuring former New Orleans star quarterback Drew Brees to get fans ready for the “Guac Zone.”…

Container shipping rates Trans-Pacific route exhibit first signs of decline

On the Trans-Pacific route, the rate for a 40-foot container dropped by nearly US $ 1.000 last week, going down to US $ 11.173. This is an 8,2% decrease from…

Industry veteran Bryan Barsness joins GrubMarket

GrubMarket, Inc. announced that Bryan Barsness, former co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ProduceIQ, will join its software team as Head…

In the US market

Blueberries have reached peak prices in the last three seasons

A study by consulting firm Agronometrics has compared the volumes and average prices of blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries in the United States market,…

Giddings Berries USA continues expansion with key hires

Giddings Berries USA, the Monterey, CA-based subsidiary of Giddings Fruit and global supplier of conventional and organic berries, cherries and more, has strengthened its…

Miguel Gonzalez, MG Fruit:

"Spanish tomato growers smell opportunity in the winter months as gas prices explode in the Netherlands"

The Spanish greenhouse vegetable season has restarted in Almeria. The high gas price that the Dutch growers are facing is an opportunity for the Spanish growers, according to…

Tamaulipas' lemon harvest will decrease by 40%

According to the National Agrifood Health, Safety, and Quality Service (Senasica), Tamaulipas will harvest up to 40% fewer lemons due to weather factors, such…

Global Focus Top Fruit

Ross Goatham - AC Goatham & Son

"We haven’t known a growing season like it in the last 40+ years."

The first of this season's apples were picked in early August at English top fruit grower AC Goatham and Son, this was three weeks later than in a normal year."It has been a…

Retail

Dreamstime

Kroger to enter Northeast through e-commerce partnership with Ocado Group

Afresh Technologies and New Seasons Market have partnered

US: Village Super Market reports uptick in fiscal 2021 salesShopRite operator Village Super Market Inc. saw net and same-store sales edge up for its 2021 fiscal year, with…

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Jonathan Dax Cooke, Farmfolio founder and CEO

Ag development company in Latin America focuses on tropical produce

The Farmfolio story begins in 2014, when founder Jonathan Dax Cooke first landed in Panama City, Panama. When he arrived, Dax—an Alabama native who’d spent the…

The state of North American organic produce

Taking a look at post-pandemic trends and emerging issues for organic foodstuffs

The impacts of the pandemic on US retail prices, volumes, and premiums have differed by product. After years of slowing, the growth rate of retail organic food…

Argentinian Blueberry Committee

Weekly Argentinean blueberry arrivals

Week 40 cumulative blueberry arrivals just slightly up year-on-year

Weekly Argentinian blueberry arrivals in week 40 saw a cumulative volume of 2.137 tons in 2021, compared to 2.119 tons at this point in time last year. Total weekly arrivals…

Northwestern University study looks at answers to climate change

Breadfruit: Potential food of the future

Climate models suggest breadfruit trees will grow well across the tropics for many decades to come. There is an especially big opportunity in tropical Africa,…

Asparagus and table grapes account for 40% of Sonora's agricultural export income

Asparagus and table grapes are Sonora's agricultural products that have the highest value in the international market. Together they account for nearly 40% of…

Multilingual communication is essential at an international scale

Italian PND fruit peeling and cutting machines requested in Central and South America

In the last three years, the processing of fruit and vegetables in Central and South America has seen a strong development. The Italian company PND, which specializes in the…

2021/2022 season

Tunisian date crop estimated at 368.500 tons

Tunisian industry experts estimates a date crop of 368.500 tons in the 2021/2022 season, against 344.600 tons during the past season. This is an increase of…

Ruan van Graan – Banhoek Fruit Packers

Stonefruit packhouse offers low chem citrus packing to Boland growers

Well-known plum and nectarine packhouse Banhoek Fruit Packers this year packed lemons for the first time in its 16-year existence, after last year diversifying into…

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Mini Symposium on avocado quality

The avocado world is rapidly developing. With the complexities of delivering “ready-to-eat” avocados, the challenges with waste, and the ever-increasing demands of consumers,…

A patent to fully recycle plastic

Siropack, a company based in Cesenatico that develops packaging technologies, has set up the "Respect" patent to fully recycle the plastic of food containers, fresh produce…

Iurie Fala - Moldova Fruct

“The EU is still discovering the high quality of Moldavan fruit"

Moldova Fruct consists of 180 growers producing apples, plums, grapes, cherries, peaches and apricots, the main export markets are Russia Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Poland,…

Madrid 2021: a positive outcome that encourages optimism for Berlin 2022

Video Italy gains ground in the European fruit and vegetable sector

"The 2021 edition of Fruit Attraction, held at Ifema in Madrid, Spain, was concluded with an extremely positive outcome," said Head of Internationalization and Fairs of the…

Gert-Jan Slobbe, Fortuna Frutos, the Netherlands

"Sales of first Canary Island tomatoes going smoothly, but a good year is desperately needed too"

Last week, the first round and plum tomatoes of the Canary Islands season arrived at Fortuna Frutos in the Netherlands. "The crop is perfect, so we can say this is a good…

Agritech company's offering heavily oversubscribed

Hectre, the New Zealand based orchard management and fruit sizing software company, has just completed a funding round which will see both its team and its product innovation…

Rain covers key to quality and supply says New Zealand cherry grower

New Zealand cherry grower Cherri Global is working towards having 100% of their mature cherry production under rain covers for the coming 2021-22 season. Following the…

12 to 25 day autonomy and 81.9% reduction in energy consumption and carbon footprint

Anecoop's kakis travel from Carlet to Paris in Improus-PRS passive refrigerated container

About 7,000 kilos of Persimon Bouquet kakis departed recently from Carlet bound to Rungis, Paris, making a stop in Saint Charles, Perpignan. Eight pallets are making their…

DG Agriculture and Rural Development

Fresh oranges continuing to replace processed orange juice consumption

EU orange production forecast to decline slightly

In 2021/22 EU orange production is expected to decline by 3% to 6.4 million t (stable compared to 5-year average) driven by a 4% drop in IT (29% of the EU production) notably…

Trade in garlic from storage remains slow

Chinese garlic export gradually restarts after National Day

Chinese garlic export is slowly starting up again after National Day on 1st October. The price levels are more or less the same as before the holiday. The…

Typhoon Kompasu forces Pearl River Delta ports close down

Ports around China’s Pearl River Delta have been forced to stop operations again, due to Typhoon Kompasu. At midnight, Yantian International Container Terminal…

Market price is currently around 146 yuan [22.64 USD] per kg

Genome-edited tomato enters Japanese market

The 'Sicilian Rouge High GABA' is a unique tomato variety. This variety contains high levels of gamma aminobutyric acid, which is said to help people relax and…

KFC Japan sees supply of French fries run out due to shipping and logistic issues

Japan’s KFC has suspended sales of its French fries after the fast food chain ran out of potatoes. On social media, KFC posted a message saying it has stopped…

No apple imports from Ukraine in 2021

Singapore markedly reduced apple imports

Singapore sharply reduced the volume of apple imports in 2021, despite their lower price. This means that, of the first time in recent years, Ukraine is not…

New potato variety CIP-Matilde:

Using wild potato relatives to adapt agricultural practices

Climate change is creating many problems for farmers. A new potato variety called CIP-Matilde, developed by the International Potato Center (CIP) with support…

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