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Growers hope for better pricing on rambutan this season

As it ramps up for next month’s rambutan season, growers and shippers are hoping for a better season than the one that contended with early COVID-19 last year. Harvest begins…

Mexican grape pricing strong while imports vary greatly

Mexican grape production has begun out of Jalisco, Mexico. George Matoian of Fresh Farms in Kingsburg, CA says it started its grape harvest approximately two weeks ago with…

Chilean citrus season projects volume increase to the U.S. market

In its initial forecast for the 2021 season, the Chilean Citrus Committee of ASOEX estimates a six percent increase in citrus exports, encompassing navels, lemons and easy…

Club apple brand teams up with upcoming DreamWorks film

JAZZ™ apples are joining an epic adventure thanks to an exclusive new partnership with the new DreamWorks Animation film, Spirit Untamed. The film, which arrives in theaters…

AgroFresh appoints Clinton A. Lewis Jr. as CEO

AgroFresh Solutions, Inc., a global player in produce freshness solutions, today announced that Clinton A. Lewis Jr. has been appointed as Chief Executive…

Oahu. Hawaii

Dole fined $20,000 for safety risks posed by Wahiawa Dam

On Friday, Hawaii’s land board has fined the Dole Food Company Hawaii $20,000 for failing to safely maintain the Wahiawa dam. The more than a century-old dam –…

April 30

Apple quality solutions and market trends discussed at Quality Summit

Hazel Technologies, Inc. announces the first ever virtual Apple Quality Summit. The one-hour event will be held on Friday April 30th and feature keynote speakers from across…

Retail promotions and new vertical packaging for golden kiwi season

Zespri begins shipping its kiwifruit from New Zealand mid-May. Leading the sales growth is SunGold, which is now Zespri's #1 largest and top-growing kiwifruit. Shoppers can…

Twitter.com

Due to eruption La Soufrière volcano

St Vincent: Deputy PM says agricultural region in northeast is destroyed

According to Deputy Prime Minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines, Montgomery Daniel, the agriculture sector is now non-existent on the eastern side of the La Soufrière…

High adaptation to Colima and Michoacán growing regions

New lemon variety Lise developed

The National Institute of Forestry, Agricultural, and Livestock Research (INIFAP) developed Lise, a Mexican lemon that has high yields, better characteristics, and high adaptation to…

Global Focus Machinery/Packaging

New Idaho potato packaging unveiled

ProSource Produce L.L.C., is releasing the first images of the company’s branded potato packaging. ProSource Produce, LLC, an Idaho based grower-shipper of fresh potatoes and…

Special South Africa

Top Control

Jason Glue - Top Control

"Top Control can install a complete system to generate the correct packing weight, align the correct labelling"

Top Control is an Italian based company which operates around the world providing weighing, packaging, labelling and storage management systems to fresh produce companies. The…

Retail

Dreamstime

HelloFresh: Launch of @TheTable

Food City: Alabama debut

Aldi, Costco among world's most reputable companiesAldi, Costco and Amazon are among the top 100 most reputable companies in the world, according to RepTrak. The company…

New University of Michigan study

Fruits and vegetables could help young adults improve sleep

Increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables could help young adults sleep better, especially young women, a new University of Michigan study shows. Young adults who…

Braga Fresh promotes senior director of sales

Braga Fresh promoted Heather Fuller to vice-president of sales.Fuller joined the company more than five years ago and most recently was the senior director of…

Blueberry councils hire new director of communications

Jill Scofield has been hired as the director of communications and industry relations for the North American Blueberry Council (NABC) and the U.S. Highbush…

Center for Growing Talent

New opportunities for professional development

Center for Growing Talent by PMA has announced the newest addition to a suite of development opportunities for produce and floral industry young professionals.…

FDA: ‘Foreseeable hazard’ if leafy greens are still grown near cattle or dairy farms

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would take ‘two important steps to advance the safety of leafy greens’. These steps will impact…

United Potato Growers of Canada

Canadian potato storage holdings April 1, 2021

Total Canadian potato storage holdings on April 1 at 9.0% below 3-year average

Total Canadian Potato Storage Holdings on April 1, 2021 are 9.0% below the 3-yr. average at 38,037,000cwt. A snapshot from this same month a year ago had stocks 4.5% below…

New hot honey product features datil peppers

St. Augustine, Florida is known for growing some of the hottest chili peppers in the country, including the fiery datil pepper. Traders Hill Farm, in…

Cabrero, Chile

More than 4.28 mln boxes of blueberries destined for US inspected as of March 31

At the SAG / USDA - APHIS / ASOEX Phytosanitary Inspection Site in Cabrero, more than 4.28 mln boxes of fresh blueberries destined for the United States were…

Costa Rican pineapple prices rose by 14% in first months of 2021

In the twelve weeks leading up to 7 April, the Mintec price of Costa Rican pineapples rose by 14%. This rise can be attributed to steady exports, following the…

The state produced more than 91,000 tons of melons in 2020

Michoacan, one of Mexico's three-largest melon producers

The state of Michoacan established itself as one of the main melon-producing entities in Mexico. According to data from the Agrifood and Fisheries Information…

Richi Menoyo: "We expect to harvest 5,000 MT of avocados and 1,000 MT of mangoes this year"

Almeria-based company Agroatlas will produce avocados and mangoes in Mexico

The unstoppable growth of avocados continues in the markets, and this rising supply doesn't seem to be having an impact on the demand, which appears to have no limits. For…

“Egyptian garlic season has been rather unstable this year”

The Egyptian dry garlic season is about to start, while the green fresh garlic season is wrapping up. Export quantities have been lower this year, but demand on the Egyptian…

NatureSmart – Wilene Burger

Fresh marketer connects Namibia and South Africa

NatureSmart was established last year to facilitate the growing fresh produce trade between Namibia and South Africa. It makes sense for Namibian growers to enter the South…

Stefano Lugli

The time has come to only think about protected fruit orchards

After the frost of mid-March 2021, the frost of the past week caused serious damage to the fruit-growing potential of northern Italy. Stefano Lugli, experimenter at the…

Civ, Consorzio italiano vivaisti

Strawberry Flavia is becoming increasingly popular in South Italy

Many companies in South Italy and in particular in the Basilicata region are testing the commercial varieties of CIV with great interest, in particular the variety Flaviapbr,…

Erik Kieftenburg, MJ Pronk, the Netherlands:

"Currently more challenging to buy than sell apples"

There's a vast difference between the current apple and pear markets. That's according to Erik Kieftenburg of MJ Pronk in the Netherlands. "When it comes to apples, we're…

ToBRFV: first trial results confirm high resistance level

In 2020, Enza Zaden announced the discovery of the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) High Resistance gene, a complete solution for ToBRFV. Since the announcement, we've…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Colombia at £0.78 per kg

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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