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Blackberry pricing likely to settle back down as volumes come up

Blackberry supplies are starting to grow again after several weeks of short volumes. “Overall, there has been more supply in the market this year versus 2021. 2021 was very…

Lower early Flame volumes and costs challenges for Mexican table grapes

The Mexican 2022 table grape season, currently underway, is proving to be challenging due to growing costs that increase by the day. The early red seedless variety Flame…

Franklin Torres, president of Fenabe:

"The number of illegal hectares of bananas in Ecuador comes close to that of Costa Rica"

How much is too much? According to the National Federation of Banana Producers of Ecuador (Fenabe), there are around 40,000 hectares of bananas planted illegally in the…

More organic Brussels sprouts production for 2022

Production right now of Brussels sprouts from Mexico is strong. “We are forecasting to have good production from Mexico until the end of June. We have doubled our organic…

Reduction in processing costs

Automating the process of receiving orders

Consentio, a software company specializing in developing digital automation solutions for fresh produce companies, is entering the United States. “Headquartered in Spain and…

Berries are top trending fruit for Memorial Day

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and many Americans gather with family and friends and celebrate with food. A recent social media and web analysis of…

IFPA’s Southern Hemisphere Commodity Working Group launches

International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) is launching the Southern Hemisphere Commodity Working Group series to offer interactive, virtual workshops for…

BioConsortia brings on lead business development

BioConsortia announced the addition of Sarah Reiter to lead business development, as the company moves towards registration and product launch for multiple…

Berries might be carrying norovirus

Canada: Below Zero raspberries recall

Manatab just issued a recall for Below Zero Whole Raspberries IQF following the detection of the norovirus. The announcement comes from the Canadian recalls authority. The…

In fight against Citrus Greening Disease

Florida Reps. Cammack & Lawson lead letter to EPA to fast-track pesticide approval

Today, Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL-03) and Congressman Al Lawson (D-FL-05) led a bipartisan letter with members of the Florida congressional delegation to…

Special Asia

The logistics system has gradually recovered, and overseas fruits have returned to consumers' tables

As we enter May, the business activities of foreign companies in Shanghai are steadily restarting and, with the gradual improvement of logistics problems, the transportation…

Global Focus Melons/Kiwifruit

Record prices for watermelon and melon in Almeria in mid-May

According to the latest report on protected horticultural products from the Observatory of Prices and Markets of the Government of Andalusia, corresponding to…

Retail

Dreamstime

Walmart aims to automate all its regional distribution centers

Wegmans: Opening date for 1st D.C. store on July 13

US: FreshDirect celebrates 20 years at the forefront of grocery innovationFreshDirect, the online grocery shopping pioneer and one of the leading grocery delivery services in…

Florida Department of Citrus

Chairman Johnson: Moving quickly on the Donaldson Tree

As the season winds down, the journey toward an HLB-tolerant or resistant tree is heating up. FDOC Executive Director Shannon Shepp provided an update at the…

SEPC announces 2022 member scholarship recipients

The Southeast Produce Council is pleased to announce this year’s SEPC Member Scholarship recipients. They are proud to award 59 scholarships ($59,000) in 2022…

Irene Hatsu, associate professor at Ohio State University:

‘Diet may be one way to reduce ADHD symptoms in children’

There is another good reason for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to eat their fruits and vegetables. According to a new study, it…

Asian citrus psyllid found at packinghouse and juice plant in California

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has urged all citrus industry members to be extra vigilant in their Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) mitigation…

Blackberry business flourishes in Arkansas

Blackberry growing is on the rise in Arkansas. Last year, governor Asa Hutchinson declared June to be Blackberry Month in the state, in recognition of the…

Cuba: Farmers combat land degradation with sustainable management

At the end of 2021, Cuba had 226,597 farms, 1202 of which had agroecological status while 64 percent of the total – some 146,000 – were working towards gaining…

Radford Software

Unprecedented demand for fresh produce software company after remote packhouse solutions installation

A leading New Zealand fresh produce software provider says it is receiving unprecedented demand for its services, particularly following the latest successful implementation…

“The competition won’t be easy for the Egyptian grapes”

The Egyptian grape season has started and according to one fresh produce exporter from Egypt, the crops are looking really good. The Egyptian grapes will have to deal with a…

Suiderland Plase’s third and largest citrus packhouse becomes operational

Suiderland Plase is a South African grower, packer and marketer of citrus and table grapes. In May last year, site preparation started for Bergpak, their third packhouse and…

Launching e-certification system: A collaborative “game changer” between South Africa and the Netherlands

On 9 May 2022 South Africa launched an e-certification system that it developed in collaboration with the Netherlands. According to Food Business Africa.com, this system is a…

Laurens Maartens (StoneX): "Savings to be made with payments in local currency"

"Almost all payments to Vietnam are still in euros and dollars"

Following the free trade agreement concluded between the EU and Vietnam in 2020, the import duty on 94% of Vietnamese fruit and vegetables was immediately reduced to 0% as of…

China could overtake the Netherlands and become the second destination for Peruvian grapes in the 2023/24 campaign

According to data from Provid presented by its general manager, Alejandro Cabrera, at the Piura 2022 Redagricola Conference, in week 14 of 2022, the United…

Sea and air freight rates the same, but there are signs that they could start to drop

High ocean freight rates were expected to return to pre-pandemic normality, and with a significant drop in rates heading into 2022, it was predicted that rates…

Maurice Koppen, Oakfield Champignons:

"The mushroom market's supply-side regulation will become evident"

The recent good Dutch weather has not benefited mushroom sales. "The market's now reacting to that, partly by tempering supply. But the high costs have also led to several…

Pierre Gelebart, Prince de Bretagne:

“The 2022 artichoke campaign is early and very qualitative”

The French artichoke campaign has started a couple of weeks ahead of schedule. “We’ve had a great spring and the winter was quite dry, which enabled us to start harvesting two…

Modest increase in Israel’s 2022 table grape harvest estimated

A modest increase of just over 7% is estimated for Israel’s 2022 table grape harvest that has just started. Only about 5% of the annual crop is exported with 95% going towards…

Environmental group claims "dramatic increase" of pesticides on fruits and vegetables

Environmental activist group Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has released a report on pesticides found on fruits and vegetables, sold in Europe.…

‘Measures have practically broken all trade routes in and out of the country’

Kremlin official admits Western sanctions are indeed taking a toll on Russia

A top Kremlin official has admitted that Western sanctions are taking their toll on Russia, after they were imposed over Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.…

A Catalan company creates edible packaging that avoids the use of plastic

The Department of Business and Labor reported that the Catalan startup Bio2Coat, from Terrassa, has developed edible coatings and packaging for the…

Bayer makes US$160 million commitment to Zero Hunger Pledge

Joining like-minded companies in the private sector, Bayer has signed the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge with a 160 million U.S. dollar commitment dedicated…

Visit of the delegation of the Catalan-Brazil Chamber

A delegation from the CCBC visited the CMR GROUP headquarters in order to learn about the modern management, storage, packaging and distribution processes implemented at the…

European investors take a stake in Lona, one of the largest South African citrus exporters

On May 20, Freshplaza published an article on how the Lona Group acquired a majority stake in the Unlimited Group, creating an entity with a combined export…

Cape Town vendors welcome renewed suspension of permit payments

Hawkers of fruit and vegetables in Cape Town have welcomed the decision by City officials to suspend traders’ permit payments for another six months. Payments…

ACT weakens plastic ban by removing fruit and vegetable bags

The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) is pleased the Australian Capital Territory government is taking the next steps on banning marine wildlife-killing single-use…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Panama steady compared to 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…

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