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Associate Director International Procurement: Produce - Berlin

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One Eleuthera Foundation grows on the Bahamas:

"Retractable roof greenhouse ideal for tropical climates"

“The Bahamas has an agricultural history but it has fallen to the wayside over the past 50 years. We want to help bring it back through training about advanced agriculture in…

Stronger lemon pricing, particularly on larger sizes

Supplies of lemons out of California currently are good. “We’re starting to finish up the desert region and we’re a bit ahead of the industry in that regard” says Alex Teague…

Lighter volumes meet strong demand on organic asparagus

Organic asparagus is currently in a lighter production cycle, as expected. “We’re pretty much where we expected to be. We have Baja finishing and Caboroca sputtering to life…

Gross profit down, but business remains resilient

Mission Produce releases 4th quarter financial results FY 2021

Mission Produce, Inc. reported its financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter ended October 31, 2021. “Our business faced significant headwinds in the…

Calavo Growers, Inc. appoints Brian W. Kocher President and CEO

Calavo Growers, Inc, a global avocado-industry player and provider of value-added fresh food, today announced it has appointed Brian W. Kocher as President and…

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US: Report shows key sales opportunities for apples

A special CatStat® (category statistics) report looking at data from Nielson Answers®, total US for the 52-week period ending November 27, 2021, paints an opportune landscape…

Dole Fresh Vegetables announces voluntary recall for salads processed at Bessemer City, NC and Yuma, AZ facilities

Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc., is voluntarily recalling from the market all Dole-branded and private label packaged salads processed at its Bessemer City, NC and its Yuma, AZ…

US: New H-2A wages effective December 29

A recent issue of the Florida Citrus Mutual Triangle newsletter provided information about the wage that growers must pay H-2A labor, effective December 29.…

2021 trial results driving growth in new markets

Bee Vectoring Technologies announces 2022 US sales on track

Bee Vectoring Technology International Inc. is pleased to announce that its US sales is progressing as projected for the 2022 growing season. The sales plan is…

Indoor farm robot reduces labor expenses and increases (harvesting) efficiency

“With the learnings from the trials we’re hoping to have the product ready and improved mid next year, in order to launch the product in September,” says Hannah Brown, CCO and…

Special Year Overview

Year overview: November

More shipping news caught readers’ eyes in November with reports that even with the global shipping shortage slowly easing, supply chain delays are far from over. In fact, on…

Global Focus Exotic/Tropical Fruit

Jennifer Quintero, of Cooperativa Frontera: "After the Cabildo itself, we are one of the companies with the highest volume of business on the island"

"98% of the Canary tropical pineapple production comes from the island of El Hierro"

Pineapples are one of the fresh fruits that the European Union imports the most from non-EU destinations, only behind bananas and oranges, with volumes that in recent years…

Retail

Dreamstime

Lowes Foods and DoorDash have teamed up

National Convenience Distributors: Acquisition of Century Distributors

US: Starship Technologies releases 2021 Robot Wrap Up reportUS-based autonomous delivery services firm Starship Technologies has revealed its 2021 Robot Wrap Up, highlighting…

Sunkist Growers and Tajín Seasonings collaborate on Rose Parade® Floatfest

Sunkist Growers and Tajín Seasonings have created a display for the Rose Parade Floatfest in Pasadena, CA on January 1 and 2. Sunkist Growers will showcase its…

Receiving high-level scores by CDP

Fresh Del Monte’s sustainability programs deliver strong close to the year

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., one of the world’s most prominent vertically integrated producers, distributors, and marketers of fresh and fresh-cut fruits and…

Vancouver Island: Growers are still harvesting carrots

Andrew Engqvist, owner-operator of Andrew’s Farm Stand on Tomlinson Road in Central Saanich, was still pulling out carrots last weekend. For carrots and other…

Listeria monocytogenes found in Fresh Express Packaged Salad

“The FDA, along with the CDC and our state and local partners, is working to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections. To date, a…

Potatoes USA

2021 foodservice menu trends for potatoes

Potatoes USA has released its 2021 foodservice potato menu trends report. It looks at ‘potato penetration’ percentages, the availability of potatoes on restaurant menus, the…

Mississippi State agriculture tops $8 billion for first time

Great commodity prices propelled Mississippi agriculture to its highest level in 2021, reaching an estimated $8.33 billion. This is a 19% increase over 2020.…

Beta aims to double its table grape acreage by 2023

In the next two years, Complejo Agroindustrial Beta plans to increase the area of table grapes installed in the district of Chulucanas (Piura) to 1,000…

Fairtrasa implements 'lean manufacturing' and digitalization tools for its operations with family farming in Peru

Lean manufacturing (LM) has spread to all continents and to all business activities since Wornak, Jones, and Roos published a book titled 'The machine that changed the world'…

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Log-In Logistica approves takeover bid by MSC

Brazilian freight transportation company Log-In Logistica has greenlighted the acquisition of a 67% in the company by the Swiss/Italian global container…

Costa Rica breaks its record for goods exported through November 2021 with $13.316 billion

Accumulative goods exports in Costa Rica through November this year totaled $13.316 billion, 25% more than the same period in 2020. The figure is a new…

Re-opening of Botswana border boosts South African potato sales

It’s raining potatoes

It’s raining potatoes at the Johannesburg market, says David Nel, potato specialist at Grow BothaRoodt agents. “We have plenty of potatoes, but at the same time we have the…

Omni Group - VentX Unico

Australian fruit and veg pallet wrapping solution wins major international awards

Australian packaging company Omni Group has picked up several international awards for its innovative fruit and vegetable ventilated pallet wrapping solution, in just months…

Blake Reeve - Reeve Tasmania

“There’s no extra work to get ready for audits, just print out the report and I’m done”

A young Tasmanian Orchardist set out to digitalise operations to tap into lucrative export markets. Blake Reeve, Managing Director of Reeve Tasmania, decided on TieUp Farming…

High demand for Italian Rojo Brillante persimmons

"The demand for Rojo Brillante persimmons has been steady since the beginning of the season, but the demand has been so high since last week that our warehouse stocks have run…

University of Cambridge research

New grafting technique could combat Panama disease

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have found a novel way to combat the “Panama disease” that is affecting world banana crops. The method consists of…

WAPA releases an update of the Northern Hemisphere apple and pear crop

EU apple stocks stood at 4,865,028 T as of 1 December 2021

WAPA, the World Apple and Pear Association, released today the updated Northern Hemisphere Apple and Pear Crop Forecast. As crops have now been fully harvested…

Video Constructing a mini tunnel?

Constructing a mini tunnel? This clip makes it look so easy. Another example of a great idea to protect crops efficiently.

Automated “Terminal + Rail + Warehouse” integrates and involves

Cosco Shipping Ports’ Xiamen Haicang supply chain project hosts groundbreaking ceremony

Cosco Shipping Ports Limited, a prominent global ports operator, has announced that, in the morning of 22 December, the groundbreaking ceremony of Cosco Shipping Ports’ Xiamen…

WayCool transforms kirana stores into ‘Magic Points’, powering them with tech, products and lending

WayCool Foods, India’s fast growing agri-commerce company, announced the launch of “Magic Points”. The program is aimed to transform neighbourhood retailers…

West Bengal: Winter vegetable prices go through the roof

Even though winter has set in, the prices of seasonal vegetables are yet to go down. Most of the vegetables are priced at Rs 50 per kilogram while a few have…

DSR Taiko wants to increase global Musang King market share

Durian company DSR Taiko Bhdhas set its sights on expansion in 2022, planning to increase its production capacity upstream as well as creating a bigger market…

USDA

Citrus Annual - Brazil

Brazilian orange crop for MY 2021/22 forecast at 16.5 million tons

The Brazilian orange crop for Marketing Year 2021/22 is forecast at 405 million 40.8-kg boxes (MBx), equal to 16.52 million metric tons (MMT), an increase of 12 percent…

A new study from the Institute of Physics

Global agriculture loses billions of working hours to heat

A new study from the Institute of Physics seems to indicate that billions of working hours have been lost to excessive heat globally. Exports fear the trend…

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