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GLOBAL OVERVIEW SWEET POTATOES

Whilst sweet potatoes remain an increasingly popular product in many countries, some markets have struggled to make a profit from the crop this year due to the rising cost of…

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Area Sales Manager DACH

Strong crop of Quebec Haskap anticipated this month

Haskap berries in Quebec are about three weeks away from starting harvest. “Usually we start harvest around June 24-26 but this year we’re aiming to start June 19-21. So it’s a…

Ontario grower launches new organic strawberry program

Organic field-grown Ontario strawberries are just hitting production. In New Hamburg, Ontario, Pfennings Organic Farms is in the first year of commercial production for its…

Winter Farm:

CAN: Winter mushroom introduced to Quebec supermarkets

Winter Farm, a Quebec-based agtech, introduces its latest product, the 'Champignon d'hiver' mushroom is now available in most IGA supermarkets and Rachelle-Béry stores across…

British Columbia cherries coming on later in 2022

Global Fruit Grower Group is excited to share the second 2022 crop update from its orchards in British Columbia, Canada. Temperatures remained relatively cool for most of May,…

Canada: Combining vertical with hybrid solutions to 'serve the underserved'

“As an Indigenous-owned company in Canada, our social mission as a social enterprise Beneficial Corporation is to lower produce costs in Far North Indigenous communities by…

Port of Oakland and USDA jump-starting ag exports again

Relief is coming to growers who ship farm goods from the Port of Oakland. The Port is teaming up with the federal government to provide financial aid to agricultural…

Leigh Cummin with Catalytic Generators Australia on attending Hort Connections

“We will be showing safer and lower-cost ethylene applications”

Catalytic Generators has been focusing on fruit ripening by ethylene application for almost 50 years. The company was established in the United States, but their ethylene…

Limoneira enters two-year fallowing program at Arizona citrus ranch

Limoneira Company a diversified citrus growing, packing, selling and marketing company with related agribusiness activities and real estate development…

Avocado grower-shipper opens New Jersey distribution center

The grand opening of West Pak Avocado’s new distribution center in Logan Township, New Jersey, took place on May 25, 2022 with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony and open…

Organic Produce Summit

Onion grower/shipper promotes organics & sustainability

Peri & Sons Farms of Yerington, Nevada will exhibit in Booth #107 at Organic Produce Summit (OPS) in Monterey, California, July 13-14, 2022. With the pandemic still lingering…

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Dreamstime

Kroger and Market Wagon launched Kroger Farmers Market

Walmart plans to open four new fulfillment centers in the United States

US: SpartanNash tallies across-the-board sales gains in Q1SpartanNash hit sales and earnings targets for its fiscal 2022 first quarter after reporting strong preliminary…

2022 Organic Industry Survey Shows:

USA organic fruits and vegetables sales increase 4,5% to over $21 billion revenue in 2021

With market volatility and pantry loading subsiding, industry growth is shifting back toward historic trends, according to the Organic Trade Association’s…

Calavo Growers increase Q2 profit by $8.5 million, revenue by 20%

Calavo Growers, Inc., a global avocado-industry leader and provider of value-added fresh food, today reported its financial results for the fiscal second…

Canadian government invests to grow British Columbia's economy and fruit industry

Canada's fruit industry is an important contributor to the Canadian economy and plays a key role in keeping their food supply steady and strong. The Minister…

Landec Corporation sells BreatheWay for $3.2 million cash

Landec Corporation a diversified health and wellness company announced that it has completed the sale of all of its Curation Foods’ assets related to BreatheWay…

$60,000 awarded for industry research of the grape, fruit and wine industry in North Dakota

Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring announced that a grant totaling $60,000 has been awarded for industry research of the grape, fruit and wine industry in…

Difficult 2021/22 campaign for blueberry producers and exporters in the southern hemisphere

The 2021/22 campaign was not easy at all for blueberry producers and exporters in the southern hemisphere. This time the culprit was not the weather, which…

Biofase develops biopolymers from avocado pits

Mexico-based Biofase has developed a process to create environmentally-friendly disposable utensils in response to the alarming plastic pollution. The company…

Michoacan's blackberry production increased by almost 9% in the first quarter

Michoacan is Mexico's main blackberry producer, accounting for 94% of the national production. In the first quarter of the year, the state increased its…

Egyptian grape prices haven't increased despite increased costs

"Margins are extremely tight this year"

The Egyptian grape season has started, but it came a tad late, meaning there's a lot of work ahead of the Egyptian growers. One exporter states that margins are extremely…

“We’re fast-tracking this tomato variety”

“This variety is actually the result of a problem,” says Erwin de Kok, Tomato Sales Specialist at BASF’s breeding company, about the NUN09398 tomato. This new cherry tomato…

Driscoll's blueberries get new packaging

"We wanted a distinctive, sustainable blueberry packaging"

Remmert Dekker Packaging has designed new, fully recyclable blueberry packaging for Driscoll's. "This partnership led to the development of new cardboard packaging to replace…

Guhan Ramachandran, Komatha Fresh:

"We're using our source-to-supermarket concept to supply European markets with Ecuadorian bananas too"

In recent years, Komatha Fresh has been selling premium quality fruit and vegetables to European retail partners via its import office in Amsterdam. The emphasis has been on…

Dr. Hans-Christoph Behr, fruit and vegetable expert at Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft mbH:

"Greenhouse produce sales will still increase but will not displace imports"

For more than 30 years, Dr. Hans-Christoph Behr has worked in the fruit and vegetable industry as an expert and consultant. He is a long-time employee of Agrarmarkt…

Why, despite the rising cost of living, do people still opt for organic products?

Did you know that people spend only eight percent of their income on food? This share is greatly overestimated. People in the Netherlands think it is 24%. And since the cost…

Roamler Product manager Marielle de Jong:

"Exotics Monitor launched in 800 European supermarket sites in 12 countries"

The Dutch crowdsourcing platform, Roamler has launched a follow-up to its soft fruit and tomato monitors: the Exotics Monitor. This device gives a complete overview of exotics…

Raf Fissette, Berrymark

"Frozen fruit consumption has increased"

"The market is definitely growing overall," says Raf Fissette of Berrymark. This Belgian company supplies frozen fruit and purees to the food industry…

‘Complete nonsense’: Asda boss mocks post-Brexit plan to return to imperial measures

The government’s push to increase the use of imperial measurements in Britain has been mocked as “complete nonsense” and confusing for business. The Department…

Nathan Hall - Disruptive Packaging

Millions of boxes have been distributed throughout the Australian supply chain and export markets

Disruptive Packaging is doing something different in the packaging sector with Uniqcor®, a replacement for conventional wax-cardboard and polystyrene packaging that is made of…

Vietnam rediscovers Aussie peaches and nectarines

Vietnamese consumers are enjoying Australian peaches and nectarines for the first time in seven years. After Australia and Vietnam finalised market access protocols, LPG Cutri…

The Avozilla is back at Brisbane Central Market

Weighing in at over 1kg the giant avocado 'Avozilla' is 5-10 times the size of a regular avocado and looks more like a melon. Grown in Central Queensland, this…

East African Community Finance ministers to adopt a 35 percent rate

Fruit included in new import tax

Following the May 5 decision by East African Community Finance ministers to adopt a 35 percent rate for the fourth band of the region’s common external tariff…

Prof Nick Kotze – University of Stellenbosch

A bounty of the best of Dutch horticultural tech in South Africa

On 11 May 2022 the cornerstone for the Horti Demo Centre on the grounds of the University of Stellenbosch was laid with the symbolic handing over of a tomato plant and cutting…

Avatar against food waste in the citrus industry

Researchers at Empa’s Biomimetical Membranes and Textiles laboratory in Switzerland, with the help of horticulturalists from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, have…

Export potential for Bangladesh mangoes

Being the most popular fruit of the country, Bangladesh has never felt the need for any international tag for its quality mangoes. Still, the tag of a GI…

Dussehri mango season kicks off with new brand name 'Kakori'

Despite a poor crop, the mango growers in the fruit belt of Uttar Pradesh have been expecting a good level of export. The state government has decided to…

Dubai: Prices of first Pakistani mangoes of season to be high

The wait is over for Pakistani mangoes as traders and importers say the first consignments of the king of the fruits have arrived in Dubai. However, they said…

Vietnam: Border province to set up virus-free zones to aid exports

The local authority in the northern province of Lang Son has set up several COVID-19-free zones in an attempt to ensure the flow of goods across the…

Dubai pineapple pioneer using modern methods to help tropical fruit thrive

An Emirati businessman steeped in a rich farming tradition is reaping the rewards of his enterprising approach to agriculture. A real estate boss by day, Abdullatif Al Banna,…

Lang Son speeding up customs clearance for fresh fruit

Large volumes of mangoes, jackfruit, longans, dragon fruit, and lychees have been transported to the Tan Thanh border gate in the northern province of Lang Son for export to…

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