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Key Account Manager Horticulture - Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Operations manager - Berlin area, Germany

Commercial Manager | Cut Flowers | Kenya

General Manager (Horticulture Farm) | Kenya

Floral Designer - Floral Direct. Carle Place, NY (Long Island, USA)

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New squash varieties attracting attention

The upcoming crop of Washington organic winter squash looks strong. “We planted a bit earlier this year but then we’ve also had a little bit of a cool spring,” says Michele…

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Peruvian production challenges domestic blueberry growers

With multiple regions supplying blueberries to the market currently, supplies look strong. “Michigan is peaking right now and Oregon and Washington are on the back ends of…

California

Plane-delivered peaches to bridge gap from farm to grocery

The Giumarra Companies recently completed a test flight shipment to deliver peaches grown in the San Joaquin Valley to Southern California-based grocery retailer Gelson’s. The…

Michigan apple crop on schedule

"Early varieties will be ready for harvest around August 25-27"

Michigan’s apple crop is right on schedule, and growers are ready to harvest the delicious fruit for consumer to enjoy. “Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, so many events and…

G&R Farms

Company's 75th anniversary celebrated with promotion of sweet onions from Peru

G&R Farms is celebrating their 75th Anniversary with a new consumer marketing campaign promoting their family’s legacy along with their sweet onions from Peru. The campaign…

Superfresh Growers

Orchard update: Planning for new crop apples and pears

August is a busy month in the Superfresh Growers farms. They are harvesting four categories of Superfresh fruit simultaneously: cherries, blueberries, apples, and pears, and…

New line of automated form-fill seal and stand up pouch paper packaging

Central Wisconsin based packaging company “The Paper People LLC” announced the introduction of their new patent pending paper packaging. Developed throughout the past two…

Prune plums to be on offer for late-summer season

Oppy is welcoming the late-summer season with its Blue Goose prune plum brand, which has enjoyed a loyal fanbase for decades thanks to its consistently high-quality. The plums…

Sun Belle announces new green initiative at Jessup, Maryland distribution center

Sun Belle Inc. has launched a new green initiative at its 64,000 square foot Jessup, Maryland warehouse and distribution facility with the installation of a 450 kW rooftop…

The CGC asks Europe to speed things up to resume Spanish citrus exports to the US

On July 24, Airbus announced that it was renouncing to the aid that had been declared illegal by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The governments of Spain, France, and…

Special Latin America

Peruvian avocado supply strong with peak volumes this month

Index Fresh is seeing peak volume of its Peruvian avocado this month, with volume up by 15-20 pct compared to last year. Avocados from Peru have been available since May and…

Global Focus Soft/Stonefruit

Eric Godard, Agence Laparra:

“This year, the French mirabelle plum campaign looks promising”

Agence Laparra started the season of Lorraine mirabelle plums on the 24th of July, just two weeks after the mirabelle from the southwest. “The Lorraine truly is the ancestral…

Retail

Tops Markets will begin piloting Flashfood at 6 of its stores

GreenWise Market will no longer have a presence in South Carolina

For second year in a row, Lidl US takes top spot in Hot 100 Retailers listFor the second year in a row, Lidl US was the top ranking retailer in the National Retail…

Hydroponic tomato grower expands year-round offerings and organic varieties

The fresh produce market, like all grocery categories, is experiencing new challenges relating to the COVID virus. Alejandro Santander, Vice President of Sales and Operations…

Renaissance Food Group welcomes Edward Redd and Kate Brooks to sales team

Renaissance Food Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Calavo Growers, Inc., announced the addition of two food industry veterans to their sales team; Edward…

USDA PACA sanctions update

As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture has…

US: High demand for fresh and sweet jumbo carrots in the Northeast Region

BDA/Dorot Farm, an exporter of fresh and sweet carrots, reports high demand for their fresh and sweet jumbo carrots in the Northeast, direct from their farms. Ami Ben-Dror,…

SEPC Southern Innovations 2020 cancelled

Southern Innovations 2020, which was to be held from September 17th through September 19th in Savannah, has been cancelled. The Southeast Produce Council…

California kiwifruit growers vote to continue federal marketing order

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that California kiwifruit growers voted to continue their marketing order program. In a referendum conducted May…

New tools in the fight against lethal citrus disease

Scientists are closer to gaining the upper hand on a disease that has wiped out citrus orchards across the globe. New models of the bacterium linked to the disease reveal…

Šimun Aščić

BC blueberry growers struggle to salvage crop

Poor weather and labour shortages are making life harder for B.C.’s blueberry growers, who are dealing with lower yields and a workforce reduction of more than…

Elevate and NSF International to offer EFI certification auditing

Equitable Food Initiative continues to focus on value-added solutions to further standardize its audit process and eliminate audit fatigue. Most recently it…

Progressive Produce voluntarily recalls red and yellow onions because of possible health risk

Progressive Produce LLC is voluntarily recalling a very limited quantity of red and yellow onions as a result of a recall initiated by Thomson International,…

Katesmirnova

Michigan asparagus harvest disturbed by COVID-19 outbreaks

In 2020, the asparagus industry was one of Michigan’s first agricultural industries to face the coronavirus pandemic. Michigan’s major asparagus production…

Hailing Jin - University of California Riverside:

'Exotic Australian finger limes may help save Florida's citrus industry'

Frantically, researchers are developing tools to help control citrus greening, a disease that has killed thousands of acres of orange and grapefruit trees,…

Farm groups ask USDA for more time to apply for COVID-19 aid

Late last week, 28 US farm groups have asked the US Department of Agriculture to extend the deadline for farmers to apply for coronavirus assistance payments…

Ecuador targets UK and Europe for goldenberry expansion

The Trade Office of Ecuador in the United Kingdom, Pro Ecuador, announced its objective to increase exports of Ecuadorian goldenberries (physalis) to the UK and Europe by…

Argentina wants to regain competitiveness in the blueberry market

Jorge Neme, the Secretary of International Economic Relations of the Nation, stated that the Foreign Ministry was going to work with Argentine blueberry…

Gerard van den Anker (NFO):

"Dutch top fruit harvest estimates offer good growers price outlook"

Last week, as usual, the apple and pear harvest estimates were presented at Prognosfruit 2020. According to Gerard van den Anker, these figures offer a healthy…

Reduced export estimates on both Valencias and navels

South African orange season to end early

The Valencia season in the north of South Africa is winding down with lower export volumes from Durban within the next few weeks, while in the Western, Northern and Eastern…

Phalani Fresh on the current pomegranate season

Healthy demand for Indian pomegranates

Demand for fresh pomegranates arils has been solid, both in the Indian domestic market as well as other Asian countries. The current harvest is smaller in size, as the larger…

FreshChain Systems

"Consumers want to know more about the food they eat, now more than ever”

The emergence of COVID-19 has accelerated the need for reliable end-to-end traceability in the fresh produce industry, according to a leading Australian blockchain…

"PENBOTEC® 400 SC provides excellent protection of treated fruit over long storage and transport periods"

Australian citrus and pome fruit growers to have access to new post-harvest fungicide this Spring

E.E Muir & Sons and Janssen PMP have announced the release of fungicide PENBOTEC® 400 SC which is registered for use on citrus and pome fruit. Greg Smith,…

Registration for the Europatat Congress 2021 has opened

Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, and the Irish Potato Federation are pleased to announce the opening of registrations for the next Europatat…

Rick Marwitz (mirontell) & Daniel Heidenreich (DACHSER SE) on ultra-fresh logistics:

"Logistician at the center of supply assignments"

The past few months have posed a very special challenge for the fruit and vegetable trade. Reliable delivery during the crisis period caused many traders great concern. For…

The commercial summer of the Fellini Patrizio company

Vegetables in 'Io Riciclo' packaging win over the large-scale retail trade

There are some types of vegetables that show consistency throughout the year. One of these is celery, one of the flagship products of the Fellini Patrizio company. "Celery is…

The solutions propsed by the Apulian company Carton Pack

CartonShell® and Social Plastic®, the double face of sustainability

Although in the midst of the Covid-19 emergency plastic wrappers have been a safety precaution, the environmental impact of plastic is one of the most relevant issues at a…

High prices expected for citrus from Turkey

“We have to keep the fruits affordable for the final consumer”

Turkish citrus is heading towards a risky season. Although demand is high and prices have risen along with it, the fear one Turkish exporter has is that the citrus fruits…

Kanzi® season to wrap in September

Kanzi® apples will only be available in supermarkets and green grocers for another 4 weeks. This year’s Kanzi® harvest was smaller than normal with volumes impacted by…

IRTA

How to know the ideal ripening point for peaches using NIR technology

The PEACHNIR Operational Group intends to apply NIR technology in the commercial grading of peaches to avoid grading errors. To do this, IRTA is developing the necessary…

Jupiter Group secures partnership with blockchain traceability provider DiMuto

Global fresh produce grower Jupiter Group have consolidated their plans to provide fully traceable fresh produce to consumers around the world, by signing an exclusive…

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