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Record export volumes of Mexican avocados so far in 20-21 season

While the US is the biggest market for Mexico’s avocados, it certainly isn’t the only one. Avocados from Mexico and their Mexican counterpart APEAM (Association of Producers…

High demand for ginger meets low global supplies

Supplies of one of the hottest 2020 commodities—ginger—are going to be tight in the coming weeks. One experienced importer/seller says right now there is new…

A Triumph over apple scab!

Introducing the Triumph™ apple tree

The latest apple cultivar from the University of Minnesota renowned apple breeding team is a triumph! Triumph™, MN80 cultivar, has been released to nurseries…

Volumes expected to be down 10-20%

Peru’s Wonderful pomegranate season to start in week 8 at full swing

Peru is currently supplying multiple products to the world market, such as figs, whose season is in full swing right now, and pomegranates, which are just starting up with the…

Polar White

Premium white potato variety highlighted this winter

EarthFresh has launched a new winter promotion highlighting its premium white potato variety--the Polar White. "This stunning white potato with an excellent taste profile is a…

USDA

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

Supplies of bell peppers from Mexico through Nogales expected to increase seasonally

Unloading backlogs at ports on both US coasts continue to delay arrivals of offshore produce. Border crossings from Mexico face fewer transportation issues and are in many…

D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc.

Yuengling Launches new Raging Eagle Mango Beer with Bold Flavor

D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., America's Oldest Brewery®, is disrupting the beer scene with the launch of its edgy and flavorful brand, Yuengling Raging Eagle Mango Beer; a…

PhilaPort is the fastest growing port on the US East Coast

PhilaPort achieved a 7% increase in container volumes in 2020. This placed The Port of Philadelphia as the fastest growing container port on the U.S. East…

Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association

FFVA names new director of labor relations

The Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association has named James “Jamie” Fussell, Jr. as its new director of labor relations. He replaces Mike Carlton, who retired in…

Rex Schultz, president of the Michigan Blueberry Advisory Committee

‘Michigan blueberry farming threatened by rising imports’

Rex Schultz, is the president of the Michigan Blueberry Advisory Committee and owner of Heritage Blueberries in Bangor. He wrote an article about the agro…

Special Asia

"FYK" mango ripening stimulant turns cardboard box into ripening room

The mango season is currently in full swing in Brazil, Peru, and Australia. And the Mexican mango season also started in January. Although the price of mangoes in European…

Global Focus Organics

Roy Zylka (Roy's Naturkost) on trends and market developments in the organic wholesale trade

"We definitely need more regional producers who want to convert to organic"

In these times of Corona, German consumers are increasingly turning to regional and organic products. That's what the media have been saying since the beginning of the crisis.…

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Dreamstime

BJ’s expands New York presence

First quarter fiscal 2021 results for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage

US: Chicory survey reveals that over 50% of consumers place an online grocery order once a week or more oftenChicory, the leading digital shopper marketing platform for CPG…

FDA announces new sampling plan for Romaine from the Yuma, Arizona growing region

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is launching an assignment to collect romaine lettuce samples from commercial coolers in the Yuma County, Arizona growing…

Travel restrictions will affect Canadian vegetable production

Canada’s horticultural industry plays a vital role in producing local, fresh food for millions. Many of the farms employ seasonal workers, temporary foreign…

IQonsulting

Crop and Export Report 2021, Week 5

Chilean Week 04 blueberry exports highlighted by high export volumes

Week 04 was highlighted by high export volumes, which reached 8,745 tons and by rains that interrupted the harvests between the Maule region to the North of the Araucanía…

Blue Whale partners with Inversiones VECS in Chile

Blue Whale, France's largest apple exporter, has been developing its fruit sourcing in the Southern Hemisphere in recent years and is excited to partner with…

Concern in Honduras about the reduction in banana exports

Bananas are one of the most important products in Honduras. Their production creates many jobs and they are an essential source of foreign exchange. From…

Insane rise of shipping cost reaches turning point

The Chinese Spring Festival [12 February, 2021] is almost upon us. And the rising shipping cost finally showed the first downward turn in 2021. The Shanghai…

Chinese imports of Brazilian muskmelons limited due to high shipping costs

Brazil has only recently obtained permission to export muskmelons to China. The country began supplying the Chinese market with muskmelons in September last year when the…

Most green coconuts from Thailand end up in the Chinese market

China imports green coconuts from Thailand because the green coconut needs a lot of sunshine and Thailand has high temperatures all year round. Thailand is a tropical country…

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Efforts made to promote sale of crops in virus-hit Vietnamese regions

Efforts are being made to promote the sale of fruits and vegetables in coronavirus-hit provinces, including the two hardest-hit Hai Duong and Quang Ninh, as the Lunar New Year…

"Chinese import volume of plums may decline because of uncertainties in the market"

Chinese consumers are paying much more attention to food safety issues since import cherries tested positive for Covid-19. Market conditions for many import fruits worsened as…

Usually the season would end in November

Egyptian sweet potato season still going

Egyptian sweet potato growers should be preparing for the new season, but in some cases they’re still exporting last year’s harvest. Demand has increased due to the bad…

Salomon Kalondo – Roots Farm

Apples (and blueberries and citrus) in the Kalahari

A Namibian company has done the sums: it is possible to earn a greater income from 10 hectares of apples than from 10,000ha of beef cattle. This realisation is of great…

Régis Le Saint, Le Vili:

“Complicated market for echalions, normal for onions and very promising for shallots”

“The French onion campaign is going smoothly,” explains Regis Le Saint of Le Vili. “The French demand is normal for this kind of year. The market is boosted by the import…

Pascale Begoulle, Sikig:

“This year, we will go far in the kiwi season if the quality holds”

Last year, the sanitary crisis intensified the kiwi sales suddenly and strongly, but this year, the market is calmer. “Last March, we had a very high demand which put an early…

Cristiana Furiani of Geofur provides an outline of the current market trend

The radicchio market is slow but there is still hope for an upturn

The situation for radicchio is not very encouraging. "The market is not very lively, but this is understandable. The Ho.re.ca. channel and the fresh-cut sectors are also…

Juan Plasencia, Farmer Hunter Spain & Portugal of CrowdFarming:

"We offer producers a tailored solution to sell their crops directly to end consumers"

With the aim of simplifying the food chain, avoiding both its inefficiencies and the differences between the prices at origin and those paid at the retail, CrowdFarming has…

CLCircular

Digital transformation, a tool to make logistics more sustainable

According to estimates, up to a third of all food produced globally is wasted each year - i.e. approximately 1.7 billion tons. This has an economic impact of up to 730,000…

DG agri dashboard - Citrus fruit

EU weighted average orange prices for January at €75

For the EU overall. the weighted average orange prices for January (per 100 kgs) stood at €75, which was €15 above the 5-year average, EU citrus imports are still increasing yearly,…

Hong Kong Customs seized 196 boxes of suspected counterfeit branded cherries

Tasmanian cherry producer believes technology is finally starting to thwart counterfeiters in Asia

Last Thursday Hong Kong Customs seized 196 boxes of cherries labelled as Tasmanian grown and packaged in boxes imitating Howard Hansen's 43 Degrees South brand. In a…

Youtube.com

Video Jerusalema African dance craze popular at Mareeba tropical fruit plantation

Seasonal workers at the Skybury Tropical Plantation have found an unlikely way to stay motivated and happy: they have embraced the "Jerusalema Challenge" — a social media…

Russia cuts restrictions on tomato imports from several Kazakh enterprises

Starting February 9, the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision will cancel restrictions on the import of tomatoes into Russia…

The world's fruit and vegetable production is valued at nearly 370,000 million euro

According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) processed by Hortoinfo, the world's fresh fruit and vegetable…

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