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Looking ahead at California’s avocado season

Although it’s early and its first handler survey forecasting the upcoming California avocado season volume isn’t expected until next month, right now the California Avocado…

PEI potato growers stunned over border closure

Shocked. This is how Prince Edward Island potato growers and shippers feel following a Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) decision to suspend the certification of exports…

Consumers continue to show interest in exotic produce

While it’s clear by now that the pandemic helped give overall consumption of produce a lift, what continues to make gains on that lift are exotic fruits and…

Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles announce further postponement

‘Container dwell fee’ on hold until November 29

The Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles have announced a further postponement of the “Container Dwell Fee.” With continued progress moving…

Sauce shortage and crop challenges make for tight cranberry supplies

There’s a perfect storm of events that have helped lead to a tight supply of cranberries. In Carver, MA, Patrick Rhodes of Edgewood Bogs/Cape Cod Select says there were issues…

Starr Ranch Growers supports Nashville’s ‘The Store’ with holiday donation

Starr Ranch Growers concludes a hopeful harvest season with JUICI holiday donation to Nashville’s The Store. Founded by Brad and Kimberly Paisley, The Store is a…

The Last Harvest

Release of award-winning documentary telling growers’ stories

The award-winning documentary “The Last Harvest” releases for free exclusively on Vimeo for a timely Thanksgiving message of appreciation and acknowledgment of the challenges…

Strong export season

Promotable California table grape volume continues through December

With promotable volume of California grapes available through December, retail promotion and consumer advertising continue through year-end in the U.S. and in Canada, Mexico…

Southeast Produce Council announces SEPC University Educational Session speaker

The Southeast Produce Council has announced another SEPC University Educational Session to be held during Southern Exposure in March. Led by Inlay Insights founder and content…

Sweet potatoes can be grown in US Pacific Northwest

Sweet potatoes are typically grown in warmer southern states, but WSU scientists want to figure out if these tubers can be grown successfully in Washington. Carol…

Special Greenhouse

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Quebec's growers and suppliers launch promotional campaign

"We want to double the production of greenhouse fruits and vegetables over a five-year period"

As a result of Covid-19, the Government of Quebec has re-examined its priorities in order to promote economic recovery. Among these priorities is food self-sufficiency. Being…

Global focus citrus

Donnalia continues to gain appreciation among the operators of the supply chain

The large-scale retail is oriented towards quality

Despite the harsh off-season weather, Sicily continues to bring on its production. The company Di Pasquale of the brothers Angelo and Vincenzo, creators of the brand Donnalia,…

Retail

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Natural Grocers® is partnering with RangeMe

Walmart launched 1st commercial drone delivery with tech partner DroneUp

US: iFresh announces NASDAQ delistingiFresh, Inc. (the “Company”), a leading Asian American supermarket chain and online grocer, announced that on November 19, 2021, the…

PMA’s Virtual Town Hall Series scores awards

The Produce Marketing Association’s Virtual Town Hall Series, which began in March 2020 and has continued as a weekly broadcast into 2021, has won recognition…

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P.E.I. Potato Board announces John Visser as its new chair

The P.E.I. Potato Board has elected a new executive. In a Nov. 19 news release, the board announced John Visser, the board’s former table stock director for…

Canadian growers look at new potato variety: Red Fox

Canadian potato growers are looking for new varieties that can withstand global climate change and survive in new conditions. The new Red Fox variety, which…

Citrus World reports increased returns

Citrus World, Inc. reported its top pool for early- and mid-season oranges paid a combined $2.41 per pound solid (PPS) last season. The same combined pool for…

Potatoes USA

Potatoes USA presents data on fresh potato retail sales for July-September 2021

'Yellow and petite potatoes were up in dollar and volume sales from 2020'

Potatoes USA has presented a data sheet concerning fresh potato retail sales for Marketing Year 2022, Quarter 1 (July-September 2021). Among the conclusions were the…

Strella Biotechnology starts with saving Washington state apples

Biotech company aims to fight food spoilage

As a junior in college, Katherine Sizov started a company called Strella Biotechnology. Her goal was to reduce waste in the US food system, a problem that by…

The Mexicali Valley produces 90% of the dates that Mexico consumes

90% of the dates consumed in Mexico come from the fields of the Mexicali Valley, Baja California, and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, where the 2021 Expo Ruta…

Manuel José Alcaíno on Chile’s seasonal blueberry window

Manuel José Alcaíno, president of Decofrut and an international consultant recognized by the fruit industry, recently spoke about the Chilean blueberry…

"The idea was born in 1983, but we were unable to do it because the US had restrictions and this fruit was hardly known in Europe"

Gloria Polanco, Guatemala's first avocado exporter

Gloria Polanco, the founder of the Frutas Tropicales, S. A. (Frutesa) company, was the first person to export Guatemalan avocado to Europe. “The idea was born…

Melons Australia

Australian melon growers hoping for a 'bounce back' year after pandemic

Australian melon growers are looking forward to the 2021/22 summer season because it will give growers a chance to bounce back after challenges brought about by the pandemic.…

Sam Vasala - Sai World

AU cherry season a disaster, but African mangoes looking good

After a good if slightly late start the stonefruit season is turning into a nightmare for Australian grower and exporter Sai World. “It has been too cold and we have had lots…

Anna Catley - Cherri Global

The warm days and cool nights have promoted good fruit set

The cherry harvest has started in Otago, New Zealand, the early varieties will go to the domestic market and the export varieties will be harvested starting mid-December.…

LaManna Premier Group CEO Anthony Di Pietro

"When you see your glasshouse washing down the main street of Mildura, then you know you’ve got a problem"

LaManna Premier Group CEO Anthony Di Pietro has been featured in the AgJournal of the Australian publication Weekly Times, which visited the company's Lancaster Farms…

High Court suspends orange juice cartel damages claims

A Brazilian company accused of being involved in an illegal cartel will not have to face mass damages claims in the UK after the High Court in London ruled…

CitrusWatch: A new industry biosecurity program

Biosecurity helps us understand what the risks are to our primary production and provides a systematic, risk-based method of protecting these assets. It…

Sylvia Jones, Lodestar – 2021 Subtrop marketing symposium

Avocados become entrenched in South Africans’ shopping baskets

Over the nine years that Lodestar has been conducting market research into avocado buying behaviour on behalf of the South African Avocado Growers’ Association, they have seen…

Looking back on the first Shanghai International Fruit Expo

The first Shanghai International Fruit Expo finished on the 17th of November. The theme of this expo was 'global fruit, Chinese market'. The goals of this expo were to gather…

A metalized bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film for packaging applications

Cosmo Films Ltd. launches Enhanced Barrier Metalized BOPP Film

Cosmo Films Ltd., known for their specialty films for flexible packaging, labeling and lamination applications as well as synthetic paper, has launched…

Chinese garlic export in October significantly increased compared to September

Inelastic overseas demand for Chinese garlic continues to grow

The Chinese garlic export volume in October was significantly larger than in September. The Chinese garlic season was later this year than usual as a result of…

Southwestern Taiwan

City of Tainan opens first container distribution centre

The Taiwanese city of Tainan has opened its first container distribution centre as part of its economic development. This project came to fruition some 24…

China to buy $150 billions worth of farm goods from ASEAN members

Yesterday, President Xi Jinping announced several major initiatives to boost economic cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…

Saffron R&D project turns out successfully

Vertical farming is not quite like ordinary farming, just like saffron is not quite like ordinary crops. The Association of Vertical Farming saw this too and decided to…

136 years of success and decline of a historic crop in the archipelago

"In 1885, the English became the pioneers in the cultivation of Canary tomatoes for export"

Canary tomatoes are currently in a difficult situation. In recent decades, several factors have led to export figures falling from 352,000 tons in the 1998/1999 season to the…

"Trioza erytrae is one of the twenty worst pests that could enter Europe"

Pilar Mateo, an expert in the control of insects that transmit endemic diseases, one of the ten most prestigious scientists in Spain, and one of the hundred…

FEFCO launches Testing methodology for printed corrugated board in food contact

The European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO) has issued the FEFCO Testing methodology for printed corrugated board in food contact. At EU…

Gov.uk

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Current average week price at £0.51 for bananas from Colombia

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…

An Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit panel

Financing resilient food systems

"There’s a lot of interest out there from investors: they're just waiting for an improved business model of vertical farms. In return, they can employ larger amounts of funds,…

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