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Head of Sales for Mexico and Latin America

Nursery Manager - Guyra (NSW) Australia

Territory Sales Manager

General Manager Poland

Compost and Mushroom Technology Specialist

Territory Sales Rep for expansion in Western United States (OR, WA, ID, MT, UT)

Commerciale Italia – Settore frutta e verdura

Nursery Supervisor, Saanich Forestry Centre - Victoria (BC) Canada

Growing Systems Specialist

Technical Sales Position - Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, USA

More mangoes coming in this year into North America

Volumes of mangoes imported into North America is steady right now. “We have good volume in mangoes coming in from Peru and Ecuador with about five to six loads per week,”…

Derek Vaughn of Johnston Farms on CA citrus season:

“Mandarin demand is higher than it has been for 10 years”

California oranges are harvested from the first of November through the first of May, and so far the season has been going really well. Derek Vaughn of Johnston Farms says:…

New plastic-free packaging for Starr Ranch organic Fuji apples

Starr Ranch Growers is extending its sustainability program with new packaging for organic apples. The new, sustainable packaging is part of a controlled trial for Starr Ranch-sold…

US-Mexico-Canada Agreement

Florida farmers continue to raise alarms on ‘NAFTA rewrite’

Florida fruit and vegetable farmers, including tomato growers in Manatee County, worry they will continue to lose market share to their Mexican counterparts under the ‘new…

California strawberry acreage increases lead to optimism

Although state-wide the 2019 California strawberry production fell short of another record, the industry is optimistic that 2020 will bring huge volumes during…

Alabama peach chill hours start adding up

The Chilton Research and Extension Center in Clanton, Alabama, has reported that chill hours for the 2020 peach crop are accumulating at a sufficient rate: “As…

Dry start to 2020 for Pacific Northwest

It’s only early January, but washingtonagnetwork.com is already talking about drought across the Inland Northwest. According to the USDA, over 83% of Washington is in the Abnormally…

US: Huanglongbing remains a threat to Ventura County orchards

Ventura County growers remain vigilant against a disease that’s led to an expanded Southern California quarantine zone aimed at protecting the state’s huge citrus industry.…

National Retail Report - Specialty Crops

US retailers focus on health and organics this week

This week, US retailers took multiple tacks to attract shoppers. Dia de Los Reyes (Three Kings Day) was promoted with avocados, Roma tomatoes, onions, and pineapples. Shoppers…

Salix Fruits sees growth in US in 2019

Distributor Salix Fruits ended 2019 with 30% growth over 2018, in part because of its imported Argentine lemon program in the US. The global fruit distributor…

Special Fruit Logistica

StePac will showcase its solutions at Fruit Logistica

Sustainable packaging extends the pomegranate season

StePac L.A., Ltd. have been working on advances in pomegranate packaging since 2003. The company introduces its latest range of sustainable packaging solutions, designed for…

Global Focus Bananas

Costa Rica is interested in a new variety of banana that is resistant to Fusarium

A novel variety of Cavendish banana resistant to the Fusarium Tropical Race 4 virus is under study in the Philippines. The new banana variety, which was developed by the…

Retail

Parent company for Shoppers Value files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection

Sprouts Farmers Market has partnered with Whole30

Ahold Delhaize USA reveals CT warehouse plansAs it embarks on the transformation of its supply chain to a fully integrated self-distribution model, Ahold Delhaize USA will…

Greenyard divests of its logistics company in Portugal

Greenyard has signed an agreement for the divestment of Greenyard Logistics Portugal through a management buyout (MBO). This Greenyard company operates since…

Better sizes bolster Far Eastern sales for South African grapes

In the Orange River it’s been an average year, not great but still better than last year, and the area hasn't reached its harvest estimates. Some varieties have disappointed,…

Damage to Batlow apple orchards still to be assessed after devastating fire hits the town

While the full extent of last weekend's bushfire is still yet to be assessed, it appears apple growers in the New South Wales town of Batlow may have escaped major damage. The…

Mango season in full swing in Queensland, Australia

Despite many growers enduring everything Mother Nature threw at them, this summer a good supply of quality mangoes is expected. From extreme heat to monsoonal rain and…

Australia rainfall deciles - December 2019

Some dry reading.

Crop and Export Report 2020 - Week 1

Chilean blueberries: Crops still concentrated in the south central zone

The crops are still concentrated in the south central zone, where the volumes remain at the peak although the focus has moved towards the mid-season varieties, dominating…

"Prices of Chilean cherries in China under pressure due to high volume"

Currently, Chilean cherries are flooding into China. As the Spring Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday gets closer, the market demand for cherries is rising. "Recently,…

Peru: Ancash blueberry exports doubled in 2019

The department of Ancash in northern Peru has 570 hectares of blueberries in full production, distributed in the provinces of Huarmey and Huaylas, the main…

"Cold climate weakens market demand for mandarins in China"

At this stage, China's mandarin production season is in full swing. Due to the impact of the climate, the overall output has decreased to a certain extent…

"The domestic production season is coming to an end, but the import season has not yet begun"

"Temporary shortage of pomegranate supply in China"

There are great differences in the pomegranate market conditions. Although the price was relatively high at the beginning of the season, some fruits were harvested too early,…

"Hainan watermelons conveniently fill a gap in the Yunnan watermelon market"

The traditional Chinese Spring Festival [25 January, 2020] is approaching. Fruit traders supply the Chinese market with large volumes of fruit during this period. Even Hainan…

"Regulations threaten Flemish leek farming"

Record sales of EUR 208 million for Belgium auction

REO Auctioneers are based in Roeselare, Belgium. They ended 2019 with record sales of €208 million. That makes last year the best the cooperative has ever had. For the second…

Dutch trader has worked in the fruit and vegetable sector for 65 years

To still know the exact prices, every day, of grapes, mangos, and kakis, at the age of 80. Few people can say that. However, Jan van den Heuvel is at each one of Hillfresh's…

Yvonne Tweddle - Jupiter Group

“We have an excellent supply base and we want to take that a stage further"

2019 has been quite a year for Jupiter Group, getting exclusive production and marketing rights for ARRA grapes in India, expanding their grower base in Colombia and acquiring…

Novel cabbage vegetable is cultivated on 10 ha

Four tons of domestic kalettes for the whole of Switzerland

In 2010, British seed company Tozer Seeds launched a new vegetable called the 'Flower Sprout'. This mix of Brussels sprouts and feathered sprouts was convincing: four years…

Morocco’s soft fruit to conquer foreign markets

The total area allocated to the cultivation of red fruit in Morocco increased from 3,035 hectares in 2009 to about 9,000 hectares during the past two years. The increase in…

UAE: Pure Harvest to add berries and lettuce

Ever since they started harvesting their first tomatoes in November 2018, the team with Pure Harvest has been battling the temperatures in Abu Dhabi (UAE), that reach up to 53…

Question: Why does toothpaste makes orange juice taste terrible?

For those among us that ever drank a glass of orange juice in the morning after brushing our teeth: that was a lesson learnt. And it’s a lesson most of us learn as young kids…

Albania: 7th in European orange production

Albania ranks seventh in Europe for oranges production in 2018. This data was revealed in a recent Eurostat report, according to which 300 hectares of oranges…

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