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Michigan's apple season is wrapping up

“We are in our final push of the season here in Michigan.” So says Julia Willer of BelleHarvest Sales in Belding, MI of the state’s apple season. “A lot of packing facilities…

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Tight watermelon supplies should start to ease

Supplies of watermelon are very short right now. Daren Van Dyke of Brawley, CA-based Five Crowns notes that there are sizeable disease problems out of the Guaymas watermelon…

Shipments up 10 percent

Peru's 2022 grape harvest has finished

March 8th marked the last day of the Vanguard Peru grape harvest. However one-third of the product from the season is still to arrive in the markets as our global team…

National Potato Council Statement

Joint announcement made on potential reopening of Mexican market to U.S. potatoes

The National Potato Council today released the following statement in response to a joint announcement by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Mexico Secretary of…

Biosweet, new player in the cultivation and export of organic pineapples in Costa Rica

“In 2021, only 1.5% of the fresh pineapples shipped from our country were organic”

Costa Rica is the world's largest exporter of fresh pineapples. In an area amounting to 40,000 hectares, the country produced more than 2.6 million tons of this tropical fruit…

Decline in China/US spot freight rates set to continue

Trans-Pacific container spot rates between China and the U.S. West Coast and U.S. East Coast have been on a steady decline since peaking in early January. West Coast rates…

Ecuador exported an estimated 5 million boxes less bananas in the 5 weeks since the war started

The consequences of the war in Ukraine on Ecuador's banana sector continue to grow as the days go by. According to figures revealed by Richard Salazar, the…

Purple Gala apple has won market acceptance

A 100% red apple, developed by Brazilian researchers, is very promising. The Purple Gala has an intense and uniform red color on the skin. Researcher Paulo…

Avocado shipper introduces brand refresh

Calavo, a global avocado company and provider of value-added fresh food, proudly debuts a brand refresh of the company logo, tagline and brand personality to fully support…

Berry grower opens new sales office

Bobalu Berry Farms continues to celebrate 60 years in business with another milestone. For the first time, the company has offices in the Watsonville/Salinas area. Like many companies,…

Special Fruit Logistica

Pink Lady highlights future projects at Fruit Logistica

The Pink Lady® Europe association is present at the Fruit Logistica trade fair in Berlin from 5th to 7th April 2022 to highlight its sustainable commitments as well as the…

Global Focus South Africa

Jan Lievens – Humiditas

Grape growers struggle with shelf life under harsh new logistical realities

Jan Lievens, a specialist on table grape and fruit postharvest technology in general, has long been advocating for a mindset change to preserve grape quality from the moment…

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eGrowcery and Door Dash have partnered

Kroger Dallas Division has rolled out a new service

US: Publix readies 5 for-1 stock splitPublix Super Markets plans to enact a 5 for-1 stock split that will boost its number of authorized common shares from 1bln to 4bln.…

Disease and yield data to come

Bee Vectoring Technologies announce ongoing 2022 almond trials in California

Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. today announced it is conducting 10 almond trials in the 2022 growing season, which started during the almond…

USDA lifts PACA reparation sanctions on several businesses

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has lifted several Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) reparation sanctions. Companies involved include: Natura…

Blueberry council seeks applicants for leadership program

The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) announced the launch of its new program to elevate up-and-coming leaders in the blueberry industry. The program…

Better breeding tools for future-proofing potatoes

Thanks to a collaboration between researchers across the world, including the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture,…

Maine potatoes go west after drought in Idaho and Washington

Farmers from Maine shipped potatoes by rail for the first time in four decades this winter thanks to a strong harvest in the state and heat and dry weather…

Record breaking highs for avocado sales in fall and winter of 2021

Avocado dollar sales during the fall and winter holidays of 2021 soared to new record breaking highs. The Hass Avocado Board’s (HAB) recently released holiday…

Cover crops more effective than insecticides for managing pests, study suggests

Promoting early season plant cover, primarily through the use of cover crops, can be more effective at reducing pest density and crop damage than insecticide…

Market and Crop Update for April 7, 2022

'Onions still being shipped out of Washington'

MARKET Washington: John Vlahandreas with Wada Farms provided his report from his Salem, OR office this week. “We are still shipping onions out of Washington,”…

Australian lychee harvest season ended just before the nasty East Coast weather events

Australian lychee growers were fortunate the season had just finished before the widespread rain and flooding that impacted Queensland and New South Wales, meaning that while…

Funding to boost major Australian citrus market expansion in India

Citrus Australia has received Federal Government funding for a major project aimed at tapping into the Indian market with exports of high-quality oranges and mandarins in the…

Bay of Plenty: Kiwifruit property values break new records

Several significant recent sales of Bay of Plenty orchards have established a new benchmark for kiwifruit property values. For the best producing, most sought…

Australia’s Fresh Produce Markets join Hort Connections 2022 as exclusive Trade Show sponsor

Australia’s Fresh Produce Markets, the collaboration between Fresh Markets Australia and Central Markets Association of Australia (CMAA), has been announced as…

Despite ongoing challenges

SA citrus 2022 export estimates predict positive growth

Justin Chadwick, CEO of the Citrus Growers’ Association, recently issued a statement saying: "With the 2022 South African citrus export season kicking off…

Tanzanian avocado farmers are happy their govt is removing levies

Rungwe district avocado growers thanked the federal government for removing several levies on the crop, that were impeding sales. In recent months, fruits…

Severe frosts in the stone fruit and pear producing areas of Lleida and Aragon

The cold snap that swept Spain last weekend caused severe frosts in Aragon and Lleida, which are important producing areas of mid-season and late stone fruit, as well as…

"Twenty percent of the cellulose from Russia will be lacking in the packaging sector"

"Twenty percent of virgin paper came from Russia. I think this percentage will be lacking, but the situation should still be quite manageable," said Claudio Dall'Agata,…

European market eagerly awaiting Dutch chilies

In Mid-March, the supply of chilies on the European market was meager. There was a winter dip in Spain and Morocco, drought in Uganda, and phytosanitary restrictions on…

Rob Langeveld, GreenS & SaladS:

"From vegetable processor to tailor-made vegetable studio”

The global pandemic forced GreenS & SaladS to re-orientate itself on the market. "We've changed course," says Rob Langeveld. After a long career in the fresh sector -…

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Global orange juice market: decreasing demand and supply uncertainty

The global orange juice market is seeing the lowest inventories in five years, with diminishing output from Brazil and Florida. In normal times, this would push prices…

M.B. Nieuwenhuijse and LC Packaging introduce plastic neutral net bags

LC Packaging and M.B. Nieuwenhuijse B.V are two Dutch family-owned organisations that have partnered with Plastic Bank to help stem the tide on ocean plastic to secure a…

Stijn Verreet, Interni Film’s Sales Manager: ‟Our thin mono film puts us on the right side of the plastic packaging industry″

‟We thought the increased flow pack foil demand was temporary, due to the pandemic, but it’s stayed consistent″

You can find packaging in all shapes, sizes, and materials in the fruit and vegetable aisle: paper, cardboard, plastic, rPET, trays, shakers, clamshells, top seal, and flow…

French fruit growers and vineyards endure coldest April day in 75 years

Overnight Sunday and early Monday, French wine and fruit growers have been unpleasantly surprised by the coldest April day since 1947. This is the second…

South Vietnam expects to have 1.2 million tons of 'key force fruits' in Q2

Vietnam's southern provinces are projected to harvest a massive amount of fruit in the coming second quarter. In which eight major fruits produce an estimated…

Climate change: Coffee and tomatoes among the foods on the decline

Winds, droughts, and heavy storms are affecting key agricultural regions around the world, causing many farms to fall short of their required product demand.…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Costa Rica at £0.92, up 2% from last 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…

Sea-Intelligence

Sea-Intelligence data claims:

'11.6% vessel capacity lost in February 2022'

In issue 558 of the Sunday Spotlight, Sea-Intelligence used data from its Global Liner Performance (GLP) and Trade Capacity Outlook (TCO) databases, to gauge the impact that…

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