Lower cost automated rain shelter introduced

Growers of high-value field and orchard crops like cherries, seedless table grapes, kiwi fruit, apples, berries, and flowering crops have always loved…

Audee Rios with Coliman Bananas

“For our export business, we have transitioned from conventional to organic bananas”

Back in 1978, Coliman Bananas- Grupo AGGALL was established with the goal to ensure a reliable supply chain of produce from start to finish. This was…

Strong bell pepper market could remain through Thanksgiving

Green bell peppers are seeing a perfect storm in supply, and that's creating strong markets. In Georgia, production there was impacted by Hurricane…

Spring’s dry conditions bring slightly smaller Florida oranges

Florida oranges are shipping steadily in what, to date, looks to be a calmer season than 2022. “Last season was unique. We had two hurricanes and the…

Butter lettuce-based salad kits hit the market

In 1973, Floyd Griffin embarked on a journey into the world of fresh produce. With a passion for life and a commitment to the people who worked…

Last season’s demand means great supply of melons this winter

Super Starr International, a papaya and melon grower, shipper and processor, announces promotable volumes available for cantaloupe, honeydew and Hami…

Avocado net bag and value-added blend and halves

Sustainable packaging for avocados introduced

Uniting forces at the beginning of 2022 to form a robust avocado solution, Oppy, Avoworks, and Eco Farms now announce the launch of its compostable…

Connecting produce and health:

Product heroes to make an appearance again

This time last year at Orlando's Global Produce and Floral show, Divine Flavor introduced its product hero campaign to the industry, launching the…

Ever Tru Farms enters the US market with Bosch Growers collaboration

Ontario-based indoor hydroponic strawberry farm, Ever Tru Farms, is set to debut in the US market with a new venture in Kentucky. After acquiring…

Commercial organic mushroom production by state

Pennsylvania’s organic mushroom production area more than doubled from 2019 to 2021

In the United States, the leading producer of mushrooms, organic as well as conventional, is Pennsylvania, followed by California. Pennsylvania has…

CAES leads $3.2 mln USDA grant to improve organic onion production

A team of researchers from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) is partnering with colleagues from Texas A&M…

Hidden in a shipment of fresh jalapeño peppers

CBP officers seize over $10 million in methamphetamine at Pharr International Bridge

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations officers assigned to the Pharr International Bridge this week seized $10.7 million in…

Florida’s citrus growers are selling land in the current housing boom

A booming Florida real estate market has led many growers to conclude it would be more profitable to sell their land than to continue to cultivate citrus. The…

Wisconsin expects large cranberry harvest

Wisconsin leads the nation in cranberry production, supplying 60% of the nation’s cranberry crop. According to stats from WSCGA, cranberries are grown on…

Warmolt Boer, LTO Mushroom group member, about rising basic demand:

"Mushrooms are extremely well-suited to vegetarian or flexitarian menus"

"Consumer demand for mushrooms is slowly reaching normal levels again. The post-pandemic market has been somewhat disappointing. Organic mushrooms…

Tim van Haandel, Mulder Onions:

"Falling sea freight costs are encouraging"

"Exports are quite well spread but the high prices make for slightly more competition on the global market. That's from places like China and Egypt in…

Australian summer fruit volumes should increase significantly on last year

Summerfruit Australia are anticipating a good season. Flowering and fruit set has generally been very good and a warm to hot spring and summer is…

Rik Vanackere:

"Long late summer boosts Salanova and young spinach sales"

The Belgian lettuce market situation is stable, and in Flanders, Rik Vanackere is in the last weeks of the outdoor season. His company grew young…

NatureSweet’s commitment to their worker-centric approach:

“Our employees earn almost 40% above the median wage of agricultural workers in Mexico”

Finding enough workers can be a challenge in the greenhouse industry, but also the working conditions for agricultural employees are often the talk of…

Aldo Colella, manager of Bonobo Fruit:

"Right now there are few alternatives and plenty of price speculation"

The Spanish mango season came to an abrupt end, forcing marketers to switch to imported fruit much earlier than in other seasons, in a year in which…

"Demand for small and medium-sized honey pomelo exceeds supply, export price remains high."

This season of honey pomelo started in early August, and exports to the European market are expected to end before the end of October. Exports to other…

Big drop in Peru’s blueberry volumes balanced by higher prices

As Peru’s blueberry industry, with its significantly lower blueberry volumes due to the weather effects, will not recover lost production sufficiently,…

"Drop in temperatures has begun to spark regular demand for pumpkins"

The summer is finally over and as the temperatures drop, the focus now turns to a new variety of vegetables, says Tania Silva, sales manager for Rush…

Consumers shocked by high prices but notable increase in Limpopo crop will moderate pricing

Potatoes "obviously grown in gold dust"

World Food Day was commemorated with a new sense of urgency in South Africa, spurred by research commissioned by the Shoprite retail group that…

New packaging plant in Morocco

The Alcoaxarquia Group has just acquired a new processing plant in Morocco through the subsidiary Alcoaxarquía Maroc. With this operation the company reinforces its presence…

Building the orchard of the future today

Westfalia Fruit, a multinational supplier of avocados and an array of fresh fruits, unveiled, for the first time in virtual reality, its "Orchard of…

Crawford Packaging announces partnership with StePacPPC in Mexico

Crawford Packaging is pleased to announce its new partnership and distribution agreement in Central Mexico with StePacPPC, a global leader in Modified…

Tianyun International reaches strategic agreement with Malaysian tropical fruit producer

Tianyun International Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, an important seller and manufacturer of processed fruit products in the People's…

Blank sailings boost Ningbo Containerized Freight Index

The composite Ningbo Containerized Freight Index (NCFI) quoted 622.2 points in week 41, which improved 4.8% from the previous week and has remained on an…

WAPA: Northern Hemisphere apple and pear crop forecast reviewed

Both apple and pear volumes revised downwards

With the first part of this year’s harvesting on its way, the World Apple and Pear Association (WAPA) has started revising its annual Apple and Pear Crop…

Ukrainian blueberries continue their expansion in the EU

Ukrainian blueberries increased their presence on European shelves and maintained a better price than last year in the domestic market of Ukraine. The…

Hermann Castro, Regional Marketing Director, Enza Zaden North and Central America

"We look forward to replicating our growth trajectory in Mexico and the U.S."

Since 2011, Enza Zaden has conducted business in Central America as an export region managed by Enza Zaden Export B.V. in the Netherlands and supported…

Pakistani mango exports compromised by alleged foul play

In Pakistan, owners of HWT plants have expressed concerns that 75% of mango exports to Iran were being handled by a single company, sparking accusations of…

Ashdod Port keeps up operations 24/7, despite the war

The employees of Ashdod Port are maintaining operational continuity, unloading and loading vital goods for the residents of Israel. The port is vital to the…

Fairtrade updated the Fairtrade Minimum Price across 16 banana growing countries

Spiraling banana production costs emphasize need for fairer prices

Fairtrade America, the U.S. branch of Fairtrade International, is backing calls from banana producers and farm workers for fair prices and decent incomes. In…

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation promotes avocado cultivation

Kenya is the leading avocado exporter in Africa, with a production of 417, 000 tons, followed by Ethiopia, which produced 152,000 tons in 2022. Recently, the…

Banana juice might offer several medical advantages for men's wellbeing

Some sources claim that banana juice might offer a few medical advantages for men's wellbeing. Bananas have a moderate amount of calories -- a little more than…