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Growers & Assistant Growers

Plant Biologist

Ripening Officer Bananas / Exotics

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Farm Manager

Floriculture Production Planning Manager

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Softer August pricing for cantaloupe and honeydew

Supplies of cantaloupe and honeydew melons are good currently. “Across the board, shippers have product. There may be certain shippers who lean more heavily towards smaller…

Smaller 2022-2023 apple crop for Washington

Washington’s upcoming apple crop looks to be down in volume for the upcoming season. “Last summer’s super June heat event created some return bloom issues and we also had…

Calavo Growers announces Jalisco facility open for exports to US

Calavo Growers, Inc., a global avocado-industry player and provider of value-added fresh food, announced official certification and opening of Jalisco packing…

Governor Newsom announces California’s water supply strategy

On August 11, 2022, Governor Newsom announced an emergency four-pointed plan (called California’s Water Supply Strategy) that addresses the intensifying…

After nearly two months of sea freight transit

Chilean table grape trials result in greener stems

Hazel Technologies, Inc. announces a successful trial with New York-based fresh fruit importer, Jac. Vandenberg on Chilean table grape imports, post-arrival. Thompson…

USDA

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

Movement of blueberries through Oregon and Washington expected to decrease slightly

Seasonal changes have led to a shift in the commodities of interest for this report. Blueberries have replaced asparagus, as the number of growing areas shipping blueberries…

USDA

National Retail Report - specialty crops

Total ad numbers this week: 7% decrease from last week's 314,510

Now that the so-called "Dog Days" of Summer, the time when the year's hottest weather is expected, have passed, grocers are working hard to provide shoppers with all the…

Peruvian grown OZblu blueberries popular in China

As their first Peruvian blueberries arrive in China, United Exports reports that their variety OZblu® Magica remains the blueberry of choice for customers in the country. Commonly…

Pistachio growers lawsuit against Duarte Nursery still ongoing

Duarte Nursery of Hughson stopped selling defective pistachio trees in 2014, but litigation over the matter goes on. Several plaintiffs claimed the nursery did…

Canada

Okanagan peach producers lose majority of their crop

Around this time, Okanagan producers should be selling this year’s peach harvest. However, with the colder spring weather, producers have lost the majority, if…

Special Automation

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Australia’s LYRO Robotics builds produce-packing robots to fix food’s broken supply chains

Australia’s LYRO Robotics, a startup building robots and AI for the fresh fruit and vegetable industry, recently raised A$1.5 million ($1.07 million) in seed…

Gobal Focus Softfruit / Stonefruit

"Harvest glove improves picking performance of blueberry"

A twenty to thirty percent higher picking performance in blueberries. According to supplier Vlamings, this can be achieved by using the new PickPick harvesting…

Retail

Dreamstime

Stop & Shop is introducing a new seasonal program

bp opened its first ampm convenience store in New York City

US: Fruit stars in produce categoryThough demand for organic produce has been a boon for supermarkets over the past year, fruit - both conventional and organic - has been a…

Crop-killing bacteria are mutating rapidly

A bacterial species, closely related to the deadly citrus greening disease, is rapidly evolving its ability to infect insect hosts, and possibly plants as…

Rubio praises USDA enforcement of standards for imported grapefruit

Last fall, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) suspended Section 8e grapefruit juice content standards for imported grapefruit without warning. As a…

Drewry

Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review and Forecast report

‘Widespread container shipping trade recovery post-pandemic has boosted global terminal capacity outlook’

According to Drewry’s latest Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review and Forecast report, a widespread container shipping trade recovery in the wake of the pandemic…

Ranking of the ten main Peruvian agro-export companies

In the first half of 2022, Peruvian agricultural exports (traditional and non-traditional) reached US$4.033.262.000, registering an increase of 20.5% compared…

Reduced revenues from flowers, vegetables and fruits

Kenyan horticulture exports down Sh35 bln due to poor avocados & lower volumes

Kenyan horticulture earnings dropped by Sh32 billion (€262 mln) in the first half of the year on the back of reduced revenues from flowers, vegetables and…

Tanzania to build €1.26 mln avocado processing plants

Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan has stated that the government will spend Sh3 billion (€1.26 mln) to build two avocado processing plants in a…

Winter watermelon demand increases by up to 70% over past four years, says Martin Michael from Exec-U-Fruit

Tourism rebound benefits South African watermelon exports

“We took a bit of a knock with Covid which stopped watermelon exports dead in its tracks but it’s starting up again, not yet back at pre-Covid levels, but I expect it to keep…

Guangzhou Fruit Wholesale Market Report - Week 32

Price of imported oranges drops, Xinjiang plums enter the market in large volumes

Peruvian blueberries and Chilean lemons recently entered the Guangzhou Fruit Wholesale Market in week 32. In the same week, the prices of South African oranges and South…

Chongming, Shanghai: High-tech produced vine tomatoes arrive at the market

More than 90% of the tomatoes bought on the market in Shanghai are from other places because the natural environment in Shanghai is not suitable for the growth of tomatoes.…

Stats NZ

NZ avocado industry expects price drops as key Australian market is overflowing

New Zealand’s avocado industry needs to brace itself for a period of lower prices and volatility ahead as its key Australian market is swamped with the fashionable fruit, and…

Banana freckle disease continues to spread in Australia

Banana freckle disease is once again spreading in the Top End, leaving producers worried. The disease has now been recorded on 29 premises Batchelor-Rum Jungle…

New Zealand’s pipfruit industry gathers in August for National Conference

More than 250 growers, suppliers, industry leaders and government officials from around the country will gather at the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson for the 2022…

De Vlaamse Waterweg and Port of Antwerp-Bruges maintain the water level in the docks and the Albert Canal with a temporary pump installation

The Port of Antwerp-Brugeshas issued a press release, stating: "The Albert Canal is a lifeline for this country. Not only is it an important shipping route from the port of…

MIGAL Galilee Research Institute

New Israeli innovation could increase avocado availability in the near future

In 2018, the global avocado market was estimated at $13 billion. By 2026, that number is expected to increase to $21.6 bln. That means farmers would do well to…

Watermelon suspected in Norwegian Salmonella outbreak

A Salmonella outbreak in Norway with almost 20 people sick has been linked to watermelon. Folkehelseinstituttet (FHI) reported that of 13 ill people…

Danish Maersk Group invests $500 million in Suez Canal

The Suez Canal Authority signed a cooperation agreement with the global Maersk Group, which includes investing $500 million to operate a new container berth in…

World Coconut Day to be celebrated on 2 September 2022

The World Coconut Day is annually celebrated on 2nd September and it is observed by Asia Pacific Coconut Community which includes all major producers. Coconuts…

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