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Upcoming New York apple crop up over 2021-2022
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Cannery pressure keeping California pear pricing strong
Temperatures are stunting crops and hurting market attendance
North Texas: Growers worry about extreme heat
New VP of marketing for Splendid by Porvenir
The new variety of apple, Cosmic Crisp, from the US has landed in China
Canada:
Export ban still harming P.E.I. seed potato farmers
USDA PACA sanctions three companies
New Jersey Department of Agriculture makes Jersey fresh peach visit
Organic grower and shipper celebrates 10 Years of Fair Trade certification
Michoacan reactivates avocado exports to the United States
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Australia’s LYRO Robotics builds produce-packing robots to fix food’s broken supply chains
Gobal Focus Softfruit / Stonefruit
Edwin van Eijndhoven of Gebr. van Aarle:
"Soft fruit, especially strawberries, rose sharply in price this week, availability of stone fruit has been difficult all season"
Retail
Dreamstime
Instacart has launched OrderUp!
Grocery Outlet has teamed up with DoorDash
Tree Defender awarded fourth US patent
Fresh Del Monte achieves significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions goals
Drought-stricken US states must cut water use as federal deadline looms
Post-harvest container company raises $7.5M in Friends and Family Round
Some NY state vegetable crops are struggling
Food production at risk because climate crisis endangers butterflies and bees
FDA’s new proposed food-safety agri water rule may be too complex
"Peru will have 42 - 45,000 hectares of avocado at the end of 2022"
Michoacan's pear production plummets
Agriculture Ministry Saint Lucia restarts banana exports
Dominican Republic: Coconut industry outpaces production
Shift to a plant-based diet presents big opportunities, says Prof Stephanie Midgley of the Western Cape Department of Agriculture
Changing course of climate change creates co-benefits for fruit farmers
"Our objective is to encourage more fruit into export supply chains; it is not to turn every grower into an exporter"
How Berries Australia plans to expand export markets for future growth
NZ kiwi revenues hit by poor fruit quality and rising costs
Minister Chen Chi-chung:
'Chinese pomelo ban will not affect market Taiwan'
Lytone will be presenting USApple Outlook 2022
“We are ready to share our postharvest freshness solution directly with apple producers”
UAE date exports up fivefold in last decade
Lower demand Greek seedless grapes, resulting in lower prices
“The biggest challenge for the fruit industry is to maintain regular sales volumes”
Hungarian farmers build more ponds as drought and heatwaves intensify
Greenyard proposes changes to its Board of Directors
New NFU survey:
Millions of pounds of fruit and vegetables wasted due to UK labor shortages
Difficulties with Russian market forced Serbian apple exporter to enter new territories
“Serbia has an important role in the world apple market“
Greydanus takes steps to make its potato washing process more automated and sustainable
Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas
Bananas from Costa Rica at £0.93: no change from last week
Lorry driver smuggled heroin from Rotterdam to Immingham in strawberry shipment
Creating a sustainable and appealing avocado substitute
Ecovado could be a greener alternative to 'green gold'
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