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Sale Manager - remote position located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

State Specialist/Extension Professor of Plant Pathology - Durham (NH) USA

Grower - Snowflake, Arizona

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Master Hydroponics Grower - Bethesda (MD) USA

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Senior Grower Leafy Greens & Herbs - Moss, Norway

Grower medicinal Cannabis - Zurich Switzerland

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Strong supplies of Ontario dark leafy greens following early start

Supplies of organic dark leafy greens from Ontario are ample currently. Christopher Morrison of Pfenning's Organic Farms with freshly harvested kale. Photo: Stacey Newman.…

Job Offers:

Sale Manager - remote position located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Peak of the Market announces new CEO

The Board of Directors of Peak of the Market is pleased to announce the appointment of Pamela Kolochuk as their new Chief Executive Officer. Pamela joined Peak…

First in the nation discovery

CBP Agriculture Specialists in Pharr intercept rare pest

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at the Pharr International Bridge discovered a rare pest, a first in nation discovery, in a shipment…

Strong economy leads to early strong demand for California grapes

The California grape crop is starting slightly early in 2021. “It’s about half a week to a week normal. It’s not a huge swing for us,” says Jim Beagle of Grapery based in…

President Lasso warns strikers

Ecuador: agricultural sector paralyzed by strikes

Yesterday, the National Peasant Movement and the Federation of Agricultural Centers and Peasant Organizations of the Litoral (FECAOL) of Ecuador began an…

Equitable Food Initiative brings on workforce development specialist

Equitable Food Initiative, the workforce development and certification organization that partners with growers, farm workers, retailers and consumer groups, is…

Italian-trained chef Daniele Barresi

Beautiful food carvings attract Instagram fans worldwide

Daniele Barresi is well-known for transforming fruits and veggies into exquisite sculptures. His organically ornate pieces have ap-peel-ed to foodies and art lovers the world…

Village Farms launches compostable packaging

"Reduce, reuse and recycle"

“As a millennial, it’s no surprise, from a very early age I was taught about the ‘Three R’s’ of environmental responsibility and sustainability, ‘Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle’”,…

Kwik Lok adds to board of directors

Microsoft principal project manager Jeff Mendenhall has joined the board of directors for Kwik Lok Corporation based in Yakima, WA. Mendenhall is a seasoned…

Packaging products company completes acquisition of operations in Mexico

Smurfit Kappa Group, an integrated manufacturer of paper-based packaging products with operations in Europe and the Americas, has completed the acquisition of…

Special Automation

Robot on the cutting edge of improving organic farming

Strawberries are a crop often targeted by all kinds of pests. “We're focusing on strawberries,” said Adam Stager of TRIC Robotics. “The pests that we're…

Global Focus Soft/Stonefruit

James Miller -Chambers

"We anticipate that demand will improve as we move further into the summer and the temperature rises”

Most crops are running behind in the UK due the weather earlier in the year. The UK experienced one of the coldest Aprils and wettest Mays on record for years. There has also…

Retail

Dreamstime

Berkshire Grey: $23+mln multi-phase order for grocery picking robots

Loblaw is winding down its PC Chef meal kit delivery service

US: Food 4 Less grocery workers ratify new contractFront-line associates at Food 4 Less/FoodsCo supermarkets who are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union…

Michigan cherry grower comments on season

It’s cherry season in Northern Michigan; growers are in the midst of cherry season in the Traverse Bay Farms region of Michigan. This means fresh cherries may…

Bringing new jobs to Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Frozen food manufacturer increases production capabilities with expansion

Governor Tom Wolf announced that Bonduelle USA, Inc., a French, family-run company involved in the processing and commercialization of canned and frozen…

Pineapples from Panama see spike in demand

Colorada Fresh Pineapples, owned by James Gooden, and LV Farms, owned by Paul Vergara, are making great headway in fruit exports by air from Panama to Europe.…

Mexico establishes itself as a world leader in pepper exports

In 2020 Mexico achieved its highest historical participation in the total global exports of peppers with 23.9%, consolidating itself as a leader in the world…

"People want to buy our product, but it is the challenge of how do we get it to them, quickly and still fresh"

The challenges faced by Australian exporters during the COVID-19 pandemic

Customers around the world want to continue to buy Australian fruit and vegetables, but currently, there are many challenges getting the product to them, according to the…

Haygrove’s climate-controlled automated polytunnel venting solutions

Haygrove is South Africa’s leading manufacturer of field-scale polytunnel and shade net structures and has been operating in South Africa since 2001. Haygrove was originally…

South Africa: Citrus farms pull the brake on harvesting & packing as anarchy continues

Chaos continues in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the port of Durban is not operational and the rail service running citrus from upcountry has been suspended by Transnet…

Antonio Montes, of Frutas Hermanos Montes:

"After testing different origins we found that the pineapples shipped by air from Panama offer the best quality"

"We have been working for many years with brands that are consolidated in the markets and which import pineapples from different countries in order to offer continuity in the…

Season starts in third week of August

Turkish harvest of figs expected to be higher than last year

It’s still a little over a month until the Turkish fig season kicks off. So far, the weather has been ideal for the cultivation of figs, which also means the harvested volumes…

Dennis Blankendaal, Frysk Witlof:

"Chicory prices have been disappointing all year"

Chicory production has been very good in recent weeks, not only for us, but also for others. Unfortunately, the prices have been disappointing all year. The price now amounts…

Dreamstime

New study on sustainable packaging:

How consumers want to be informed

Production, materials and recycling: Interest in sustainable packaging remains high; consumers want clear communication and certificates and labels are also…

South Africa

Agri SA - Request for the declaration of a national state of emergency

Agri SA is appealing to the presidency to declare a national state of emergency to bring an end to the wave of criminality that has taken root in the country.…

HM.Clause and Hazera hosted melon and watermelon fresh chain solution event in Murcia

From 6 to 8 July, HM.Clause and Hazera, two vegetable seed companies, organized a private event especially focusing on melon and watermelon fresh chain solutions in Spain…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Costa Rica at £0.80: 8% drop from last week

This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale…

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