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High-density vertical farm will supply enough leafy greens for all of British Columbia come fall

Two brothers, a dentist with a background in Biology and an IT/tech business expert, have been working on starting a commercial, high-density vertical farm with the goal of…

California meets strong demand with new crop potatoes

California is underway with spring crop new potatoes. “We started locally here the first week of May which was maybe a few days early and we’ll go right…

Drought declared in 34 Idaho counties

Custer, Lemhi and Butte counties are among the 34 counties outside the Idaho Panhandle that were declared drought counties on April 28. An emergency drought…

Interested Chinese buyers hope for port delays to clear when season starts in July

Slight delay for Washington Cherries

This year’s US harvest was a little delayed compared to other years. In order to receive accurate crops predictions, a week more might be needed, but growers now expect a…

USDA

U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement seasonal perishable products - weekly update

Movement of Mexican asparagus crossing through Arizona, California and Texas expected to increase

The release of the latest Consumer Price Index by the U.S. Census Bureau confirmed what buyers were already feeling – almost everything costs more these days. The April index…

USDA

National Retail Report - specialty crops

Significant increases in price for fruit this week; red cherries, seedless watermelons, Bartlett pears

This week's ads focused on graduations and warm weather get-togethers. Roses, cakes, and gift ideas were featured in special graduation sections. Summer fruit saw an increase…

Hazel Tech® brings on business development manager - Pacific Northwest

Hazel Technologies, Inc. announces the addition of Tyson Cutforth to the company as business development manager--Pacific Northwest. Cutforth joins the Hazel…

Tule Technologies and HotSpot Ag

ET technology gets boost from software system

The only company to provide actual evapotranspiration rates for crops has teamed up with another California startup to assist growers. Tule Technologies and…

SSG Market

South Korea introduces "One a Day Banana" approach

Smarter banana packaging means fruits are staggered by ripeness level

Bananas were none too common until recently in South Korea, as the nation doesn't have the climate to grow them. It wasn't until shipping links were set up with a Dole…

Potato industry Idaho hails potato research endowment

After being harvested, more than 80 percent of the Idaho state potato crop is stored. A lot can go wrong during storage and having a good understanding of what…

Special Asia

"Suppliers pack grapes with visible stems to show how fresh the grapes are"

The grape industry is struggling with an important issue during this pandemic and the general difficulties with logistical delays, which is the freshness of grapes when they…

Global Focus Melons/Kiwifruit

Gilles Lagache, Terragaïa:

“Zespri kiwis still have great potential to grow on the French market”

Three weeks ago, the import company Terragaïa started the campaign of the Zespri SunGold kiwi. The sales of this product have been growing steadily for some years on the…

Retail

Dreamstime

PCC Community Markets announced it awarded $25,000 in Organic Producer Grants

Stater Bros. Markets donated 20,000 lbs. of fresh apples to FARSB

US: Kroger Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation funding food waste researchWith an estimated one-third or more of U.S. food waste happening in households, The Kroger Co. Zero…

Grewar Oosthuizen - Agri Gamtoos Farmers Association

Gamtoos Valley citrus campaign runs uninterrupted

In the Gamtoos Valley of the Eastern Cape, the Satsuma crop has  been picked, and it is now followed by Novas, clementines and lemons. The area didn’t experience the same unrest…

SATI:

National grape intake volumes 3.6% higher than last year

SATI has released the weekly grape figures in their newsletter, while looking back on the lessons learned while attending Fruit Logistica in Berlin. National OverviewThe…

Bananas as prime Ecuadorian non-oil export product

Ecuador surpasses Colombia and Peru in GDP growth

Ecuador is one of the countries to have benefited the most from the trade agreements that the states of the region maintain with the European Union, since the…

The Netherlands produces almost 7 times more cucumbers per square meter than Spain

The data shared by FAOSTAT on cucumber production in two major producing countries, Spain and the Netherlands, shows the difference in yield per area in the…

Australian berry industry has seen significant growth in recent years

Australia’s berry industry has gone through a period of significant growth in recent years; production grew strongly to over a billion dollars in farmgate value in 2019/20.…

Carlos Llambrich, manager of Llamfruit:

"We started the cherry campaign 12 days later, with good prices and large sizes"

The cherry campaign has already started in the earliest areas of the Spanish region of Aragon with almost two weeks of delay due to the impact of colder than usual weather,…

“This vagueness about processed products leads to significant imports of apples from other European countries”

Will French apples disappear from our compotes?

France is a major producer of apples, with nearly 1.4 million tons harvested each year. And thanks to the diversity of the land and know-how, French apple growers offer a…

VLAM reflects on successful royal mission to the UK

From May 8 to 12, HRH Princess Astrid led the Belgian economic mission to the United Kingdom. The agri-food sector was strongly represented. The Flanders' Agricultural…

Regional Portuguese food products producer Manuel Patrício Produtos Alimentares invests in Körber’s technologies

Portuguese food company builds automated warehouse with Körber

Körber Supply Chain is proud to announce a new project with Manuel Patrício Produtos Alimentares. Körber will provide automated logistical technologies to increase storage…

GECO2 project

New tools against climate change also in the fruit and vegetable sector

New tools against climate change is what has been achieved by the GECO2 project, which started in 2019 and is now in its final phase with the presentation of its final report…

Online auction of weighing and packaging lines for onions

Several interesting combinations are offered at the online auction from Industrial Auctions in Kapelle (NL). One of the offerings is a weighing and packaging line for onions…

Russian isolation deepens with shipping lines making their final port calls

Russia’s ocean container imports continue to collapse as shipping lines wind down the last remnants of their services to the country’s ports. Russia still has…

CMA CGM launching early container return incentive program to increase supply chain fluidity

The CMA CGM Group, a global leader in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, announced today that it will implement the shipping industry’s first Early…

Alexander Piutti from SPRK.global and Robert Leuendorf from mirontell fein & frisch AG

Sustainable fruit salads against surpluses and food waste in the supply chain

Every year, some 2.5 billion tons of food are thrown away worldwide, which not only entails a large cost, but also causes around 2.5kg of CO2 equivalents per kilo. For this…

Sicily's NTB services for the fruit and vegetable sector

When trust becomes a working tool

"The period of the pandemic paradoxically helped NTB to be more appreciated for its services. Since it was impossible to visit the productions on site, the commissioners…

Grupo AN: "We will have trays of peeled Navarra PGI white asparagus available until mid-June"

"We expect to recover the sales figures of fresh white asparagus from 2019, and even exceed them by between 5 and 10%"

In late March, the Spanish region of Navarre started its white asparagus campaign. This product is highly appreciated in the market and its differentiated quality was…

It is estimated that the total output of cherries this year is 800,000 kilograms, which can be harvested until the end of the month

Local cherries in Hefei enter the harvest season

In May, domestic big cherries officially entered their harvest season. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the current cherry planting area in Hefei is…

Apple market cools down, and the trading enters its off-season

After May 1st, the apple trade in the production and sales areas was not as good as before. In the production areas, merchants who look for cold-storage goods…

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