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High demand for frozen blueberries helps alleviate loss of foodservice for the industry

As the Florida blueberry season winds down, other regions in the United States are ramping up. Kasey Cronquist, president of the US Highbush Blueberry Council, says: “Georgia,…

Tighter supplies on spring asparagus

Asparagus is seeing lighter volume currently. “There are extremely light supplies out of Mexico and Peru. California asparagus is going strong and has very good volume right…

Strong pricing on tight mango supplies

Mango supplies are currently tight in North America. “Right after the pandemic broke, mangoes were not one of the items that were moving. There was quite a bit of inventory on…

Oppy adds the Katicich brand to their cherry offering this season

As one of the few seasonal fruits left, cherries are among Oppy’s anticipated offerings due to their temporary availability and exceptional flavor profile. The popularity of…

Anne-Marie Roerink, President, 210 Analytics

"Amid strong perimeter growth, produce sales jumped back up"

During the last full week of April, grocery shopping patterns remained vastly different. Since early March, food spending has been highly elevated, trips have been shifting…

Awe Sum Organics

New crop of organic Mexican grapes to arrive soon

Awe Sum Organics will have their new crop, organic and Fair Trade Certified seedless red and green table grapes from Sonora, Mexico available for loading in Nogales, AZ…

Ontario greenhouse grower protects employees with SHIELD Program

Mastronardi Produce is addressing the next milestone as it adapts to the COVID-19 pandemic with the creation of the SUNSET® SHIELD program to help protect its…

Viva Fresh clean eating challengers to showcase results in virtual wrap-up event

Viva Fresh may have been canceled but that isn’t going to put a pause on the success or results of the Clean Eating Challenge. On May 20 at 2:00 pm CST, Dr.…

Courtesy of MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology breakthrough

New device could deliver crucial treatment to diseased fruit plants

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a precision injection system for plants to potentially help orange, olive and banana crops threatened…

Citrus grower launches "When Life Gives You Lemons" talk show series in Canada

Sunkist Growers, the 127-year-old citrus cooperative, recently announced the new virtual talk show When Life Gives You Lemons. Hosted by television and online…

United Fresh

United Fresh’ efforts on behalf of the industry see rewards

New Farmers to Families program to spend $100 million per month on fresh produce procurement

On April 21st, the USDA held a webinar to introduce a new purchasing program designed to provide alleviation to those in the agricultural industry who have been hit hard by…

Global Focus Melons / Kiwifruit

Michael Franks - Seeka

“It’s been a tough run for the SunGold harvest but the post-harvest teams have pushed through"

The New Zealand kiwifruit harvest has faced challenges this season due to the restrictions put in place due Covid-19, but the SunGold harvest is nearing completion and the…

Retail

Metro: Additional online services to meet spike in demand

Publix: Double-digit gains

Canada: Metro launches additional online services to meet spike in demandE-commerce demand surged in Metro’s second quarter as Canadians opted to stay home or limited their…

Empowering retailers with key category data on stone fruit

Prima® Wawona, a U.S. stone fruit producer, has partnered with a leading fresh produce strategic insight and research company to provide retailers with key stone fruit…

Packaging company announces membership of sustainable packaging coalition

Fox Packaging™ has announced its membership of two sustainability programs, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and How2Recyle®, a standardized labeling system…

Peruvian pomegranates reached 39 countries in March

During the month of March 2020, Peruvian pomegranate exports reached 14,785 tons, a similar volume to that dispatched in the same period of 2019 (14,689) with…

Mexico

COVID-19 hits Oaxaca's mango production

The sanitary crisis has slowed the export of mangoes in the East Isthmus zone, Oaxaca, where 2,500 producers harvest more than 10 million boxes of mango from 30,000 hectares…

Federico Beltran, general manager of Terra Business:

"Peru will have 20,000 hectares of blueberries in the next five years"

According to Federico Beltran, general manager of Terra Business, one of the few positive aspects of the current world health crisis for Peruvian agribusiness is that it has…

Lemon production in Uruguay grows steadily

The results of the Spring 2019 Citrus Survey, prepared by the Directorate of Agricultural Statistics (DIEA) of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and…

Ecuador

Banana exporters oppose the creation of another tariff due to the COVID-19 crisis

On Monday, May 4, Ecuador's National Assembly will hold the first debate of the draft Humanitarian Support Law, which proposes exceptional contributions in…

Peruvian pre-cooked potato imports increase

Peruvian imports of pre-cooked potatoes experienced a rebound in April, reaching 4,164 tons, a much higher volume than in the same month of 2019 and in all the…

Colombian scientists work to identify new pineapple varieties

In the framework of the "Technological options for the development and sustainable management of the Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. pineapple (Bromeliaceae) crop in the main…

So many varieties of broccoli

Spoiled for choice.

South Africa: extremely low domestic apple price the result of inaccurate data

Figures released last week on the national average apple price in South Africa, that suggested that the apple price was at a ten year low, elicited quite a bit of reaction…

Clemenluz™ brings strategic benefit to early soft citrus programmes

The Chilean variety Clemenluz™ can make an early season even earlier, which is very desirable when the market is as strong as this year. The variety is standing strong against…

Pietro Russo

Not all blood oranges are the same

The citrus fruit campaign might have encountered a few difficulties this year, but it has not been terrible from a commercial point of view. Retail prices exceeded €2/kg in…

Mart Valstar (Best Fresh) about the corona crisis' expected impact on the fruit and vegetable sector:

"Despite all the limitations, I have found my empty diary strangely soothing"

Best Fresh's Director, Mart Valstar, has recently been writing a weekly coronavirus update. This was for his colleagues in the Netherlands. Companies like ABC Logistics,…

What to consider when planning a new cherry orchard?

"The market determines the success of a cherry production, but a meticulous scientific study is also needed as it is not possible to rely on luck or chance. This is why we…

Automated pre-sizing process in water and automated robotic packing

Since the 1980s, Maf Roda Agrobotic has largely contributed to the evolution of the fresh fruit and vegetables grading sector by bringing grading machines from mechanical to…

Rob Culum - Pacific Produce

Slow supply of Peruvian avocados to Europe

Pacific Produce are just finishing the early season departures of avocados from Peru which have been arriving on the European market now for a few weeks. The main season is…

Christina Manossis on the Greek kiwi season

"We anticipate better sales results for the Greek kiwis"

The Greek kiwi season has been doing quite well, despite the circumstances and one particular exporter is already setting its sights on next season. After aiming for a new…

Coen Boonen, TService

“A temperature logger has more applications than just in the cold store”

Pharmacists, pharmaceutical companies, meal deliverers, vegetable processors and even the National Archives. They all use the temperature loggers supplied by TService in…

New ARRA Agency opens in Morocco

Grapa Varieties is pleased to announce the opening of a new agency in Morocco. Due to the great success of last season's production of ARRA™ and Early Sweet™ table grape…

Remote imagery research into providing better fruit yield forecasts

A remote imagery research project on citrus orchards is set to be expanded, after promising results at a Western Australian farm. Professor Andrew Robson, from the University…

"Some obstacles for Chinese potato export, but in general everything proceeds smoothly"

China is one of the world's largest potato producers. Production areas in Shandong recently officially opened the new potato production season. Mr. Wang of Huizhou…

Benedikt Mangold, BayWa Group:

“Greenhouses interesting and promising part of our strategy”

“2019 has been a pleasing year,” says Benedikt Mangold, Head of Global Produce at BayWa. Benedikt has been working with BayWa since 2011 and runs the Group’s international…

Greek competition affects Italian kiwifruit quotations

"The Italian kiwifruit season is ending on a positive note when it comes to demand, with prices higher than in February and March. Unfortunately, however, it is not enough to…

Gabriel López, of Cebollas Lolo: "We have quintupled our production in 3 years"

"There is a lot of pressure on onion sales"

“The prospects that we professionals of the onion sector had for 2020 were not bad before the Covid-19 pandemic; however, the situation has changed significantly following the…

“Logistics cost of Vietnamese fruits to Europe increased substantially”

After being closed for almost 3 weeks, some factories in Vietnam started operating again from 23 April. However there are still fewer vessels from Vietnam to Europe, which…

Six ways to use a broccoli stem

Food waste is always a hot item, both in the fresh produce sector as among consumers. Fruit and vegetables have its share in the 1.3 billion tons of food that goes to waste every…

China: Looking back on the Orri mandarin sales season of 2019/20

The Chinese sales season of fresh Orri mandarins entered the final stage around the first of May. The 2019/20 sales season is almost over. Many citrus fruit…

Zelfo Technology researches packaging material of the future

"Worldwide, tomato farmers throw away thousands of tons a year"

The Zelfo Technology company, which has its pilot plant in Schwedt, is researching the packaging material of the future. Plastic and waste paper are…

"This will allow producers to choose the properties they want their strawberries to have"

Researchers identify factors to obtain strawberries with better properties and flavor

A team of researchers from the University of Huelva has managed to identify the cultivation factors that allow producers to obtain strawberries with better properties and…

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