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New Compact Pattern Labeler™ with vision recognition to benefit smaller packing houses

Sinclair has launched a unique labeling system, the Sinclair Compact Pattern Labeler™ (CPL) with a Vision Recognition System (VRS). “This system is a game changer for smaller…

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Supervisor International Horticultural Projects (USA)

Canadian blueberry growers target of trade probe

Canadian blueberry growers are watching and waiting as the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) launches a trade probe into supplies of the popular fruit.…

Del Monte Fresh Produce

New pineapple with pink interior launched

Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. announced the launch of its newest product, the exclusive and luxurious Pinkglow™ Pineapple. The Pinkglow™ Pineapple is a novel pineapple…

US sweet potato growers see slight harvest delay but no harm to crop from Hurricane Delta

Hurricane Delta made landfall in Louisiana this past weekend as a Post-Tropical Cyclone. Heavy winds and rainfall were brought to the southeastern states of the US due to the…

Mastronardi Produce

New sweet-like-candy yellow tomato to be revealed at PMA Fresh Summit

For weeks, Mastronardi Produce has been hinting at the news of a flavorful new product launch and promising to reveal the next one at this year’s PMA Fresh…

New survey released

How does the produce industry respond to consumer demands for sustainability?

Study after study outlines the growing importance of environmental sustainability among consumers. Food waste, package waste, carbon footprint and other…

Terphane

Sustainable line of PET films to be showcased at Fresh Summit

Fresh produce consumers are looking for natural, healthy, and convenient products. As packaging gains more relevance in the produce category, Terphane, a producer of specialty…

Guatemala supplements volume on Mexican rambutan

Supplies of Mexican rambutan are beginning to wind down. The Mexican rambutan season is a short one—it begins in June and ends right around Thanksgiving.…

Driscoll’s and Plenty agree to grow strawberries indoors

Driscoll’s and indoor vertical-farming company Plenty Unlimited Inc. announced a joint development agreement to grow Driscoll’s proprietary flavorful…

Sakata Seed America welcomes Bill McCarthy, Ph.D.

Sakata Seed America announced the appointment of well-known industry plant breeder, Bill McCarthy, as its new Associate Director of Research and Development.…

Official opening for Tahiti limes packhouse in Colombia this week

La Dona Fruit – a producer and exporter of fresh golden pineapples and tropical fruits in Latin America – is ecstatic to announce the official opening this week of its…

Special PMA Fresh Summit

Grower wants to educate attendees at this year’s Fresh Summit

Educating the industry. That is the approach one grower is taking towards this year’s PMA’s virtual Fresh Summit Show, starting today. “The virtual format gives us the opportunity…

North American vegetable producer to showcase new products at Fresh Summit

Grimmway Farms, carrot producer and organic vegetable producer, is exhibiting new products and sustainable packaging initiatives this week at the first-ever virtual Produce…

Global Focus Top Fruit

British Columbia full steam ahead on apple production

Apple production is picking up speed in British Columbia’s Okanagan region. “The harvest was a bit delayed with all of the smoke. That put a little bit of a gap between…

Retail

Kroger introduces Chefbot

Florida gets 4 new Winn-Dixie stores

Walmart Canada hiring 10,000 more workersAs the second wave of the pandemic hits, Walmart Canada has announced plans to immediately hire 10,000 new workers for a variety of…

Sweetness Worth Sharing™

New berry campaign inspires consumers to enjoy shared moments together

Driscoll’s invites consumers to add a little something sweet to their everyday with the launch of its latest campaign, Sweetness Worth Sharing™. The new,…

USDA clarifies that firm is able to operate in the produce industry

The U.S. Department of Agriculture previously listed Suncrest Produce Solutions as being currently restricted from operating in the produce industry. This is a…

Sunkist Growers

New shopper behavior trends to shape California citrus season marketing

Sunkist Growers, the 128-year-old fresh citrus marketing cooperative, celebrates the return of citrus season with the classic and vitamin C-packed Navel orange, along with new…

Walker Brothers, Inc. welcomes Pedro Cisneros Zevallos to the team

Walker Brothers, Inc. welcomes its newest team member, Pedro Cisneros Zevallos. Zevallos has 23 years of practical experience in the green and white asparagus…

Ocean Mist Farms hired Jesse Lopez as Commodity Account Manager

Ocean Mist Farms, grower and marketer of fresh artichokes in the U.S., announced the hiring of Jesse Lopez as commodity account manager. In this role, Lopez…

EFI hires Karla Cook as certification manager

On its continued path of growth, Equitable Food Initiative, the workforce development and certification organization that partners with growers, farmworkers,…

Two Harvard grads introduce their new mushroom coffee brand

Founded by two Harvard grads, Boston-based startup Ryze Superfoods launched in March 2020 with their 8-ingredient mushroom coffee. Using adaptogenic mushrooms, which are…

Alphabet

‘Mineral’ project addresses sustainable food production

Alphabet’s latest X project: A crop-sniffing plant buggy

Former Google division Alphabet X lab has presented a computational agriculture project called ‘Mineral’. This project focuses on sustainable food production and farming at…

Otago study shows whole fruit vitamin C boosts ‘zest for life’

A University of Otago study has shown adults low in dietary vitamin C can improve their feelings of vitality by eating two kiwifruit a day for two weeks. The…

Despair on the Panama-Costa Rica border

The blockade on the border between Panama and Costa Rica, which keeps more than 800 trucks stranded on both sides of Paso Canoas, has become unbearable for…

Argentina's blueberry season faces challenges from the pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is strongly conditioning the development of Argentina's blueberry season. The Association of Blueberry Producers of Argentina's…

Climate change could benefit Argentine garlic

According to a study carried out by scientists from the Argentine Institute of Nivology, Glaciology and Environmental Sciences (IANIGLA), dependent on the…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Costa Rica bananas sell for £0.61 / kg, down 26% week-on-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…

International magazine FreshPlaza / Primeur will be sent to 3,000 Spanish fruit and vegetable companies this month

Although there will be no physical Fruit Attraction in Madrid this year, FreshPlaza and Primeur have jointly published an international, 100-page magazine in English and…

"I encounter many people who are surprised that this tropical produce is actually grown here in Australia"

An online retail company providing the unique flavours of South East Asian exotic fruit Down Under

A newly formed tropical fruit online retail company in Sydney is discovering a huge gap in the Australian market for Southeast Asian produce for the growing migrant…

South Australia: Review upholds licence to import potatoes into Tasmania

Following an independent review, the approval to grant a South Australian company a licence to import potatoes into Tasmania will remain unchanged. Former…

But two weeks of quarantine mandated

Australia: Second planeload of Vanuatu workers has arrived

A second contingent of mango workers from Vanuatu has arrived in Darwin, Australia. Another 160 seasonal workers will arrive on a NT Farmers' charter flight…

Laurent La Morella, Lorre, Belgium

“Beware of 'old' dates being offered at dumping prices”

“The South African date harvest is done. We're currently switching to the Israeli season. Harvesting has only just begun in Israel. And, for now, we expect a similar volume to…

Cool Logistic Conference 2020

Future proofing leadership, skills and training

Today was the first day of the Cool Logistics 2020 conference which was to take place on the SS Rotterdam but instead was an online presentation in which speakers and…

François Bellivier, Capexo:

“There will be a shortage of Kent mangoes on the market in the next 3 weeks”

While it should have ended at the end of October, the campaign of Spanish mangoes came to an end almost a month early. “This year, we had two successive origins faced with…

Lucien de Wit, LuBa Fresh:

"Sales of Italian grapes 30 to 40% higher"

After a difficult Indian and Egyptian grape season due to the Corona crisis, the Italian grape season is flourishing this year. "We really needed this," says Lucien de Wit of…

Coskun Eren on the Turkish pomegranate season

“High demand with lower prices than last year, it seems we are going places this season!”

More volumes, but lower prices and smaller sizes sum up the Turkish pomegranate season according to one exporter. That doesn’t mean the prospects are bad, if anything this…

"Welcome to the Lemon Age"

Elite athletes will promote Spanish lemons in Europe and North America

Canoeist Saúl Craviotto, skater Javier Fernández and karate fighter Sandra Sánchez will promote the consumption of Spanish lemons in the European Union, the US…

A.P. Moller - Maersk upgrades expectations for Q3 and 2020 full year guidance

"Volumes have rebounded faster than expected"

A.P. Moller - Maersk is changing its full-year guidance for 2020, based on preliminary Q3 figures and the current outlook for Q4. Søren Skou, CEO of A.P.…

Exported by the company Freddi

Borettana onion arrives in the Netherlands

Exporting onions to the Netherlands is like exporting champagne to Paris, or beer to Germany for the Oktoberfest. Nevertheless, the Italian company Freddi manages to do it and…

UK demand for pumpkins surges due to vegan food boom

The vegan food trend has helped grow demand for edible pumpkins to record levels. Tesco’s dedicated pumpkin grower planted 100,000 of the eating variety this…

Federal energy efficiency program continues:

Focus on the use of regenerative energies

Agricultural and horticultural businesses can again receive funding from the Federal Energy Efficiency Program. The German Federal Ministry of Food and…

European Art of Taste:

The harvest campaign of kiwifruit for 2020/21 production has started in the Northern Hemisphere

The Italian Kiwifruit is one of the focus products of the CSO Italy project - The European Art of Taste – Italian Fruit and Veg Masterpieces. Now in its second…

“Large interest for participation at PotatoEurope 2021”

Last week the organisers of PotatoEurope 2021 opened the pre-registration for former participants of PotatoEurope and already now a solid number of…

USDA

South African citrus export heads for record heights in 2020

South African citrus exports are expected to hit a record high in 2020. This forecast is based on the pace of exports up to August 2020, increased production, a peak in demand…

Thailand and Peru finalise details for citrus & grape imports

The governments of Thailand and Peru are finalising protocols to allow entry of Peruvian citrus and pomegranates into Thailand. Peru's food exports have their…

Past and future of the banana industry

Over the past few decades, the banana trade has experienced an important rise thanks to the improvements made in shipping and ripening. Freshly harvested,…

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