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Product Manager, Horticulture - De Lier, the Netherlands

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Northwest pear market steady despite slower movement

The Northwest pear season has faced more moderate demand this year, suppliers say. Overall movement has been slower than normal. Total crop volume however, was lower than last…

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Product Manager, Horticulture - De Lier, the Netherlands

Dale Murden of Texas Citrus Mutual:

“Texas citrus exports to Europe really low this season”

The Texas citrus season is about halfway done, as it typically starts in late September and runs through early May. So far, the season has been running pretty smoothly: it started…

Michigan beet supplies continue to be good

Supplies of beets continue to be strong out of Michigan. “We have ample volume on beets and it’s similar to last year at this time,” says Jordan Bremer of Victory Farm Sales…

"The Sino-US trade war does not have a big impact on the export of fresh Chinese pears"

"The export price of Chinese pears gradually dropped in the last few years because market competition has become more intense. The changing relation between supply and demand…

But none are shipped to US

Mexico: Jalisco avocado exports increased 30% in 2019

In 2019, avocado exports from the Mexican state of Jalisco increased almost 30%, even as producers in the state remained locked out of the lucrative United States market. The…

US (OH): Great Lakes Growers increasing production capacity to 260,000 square feet

Great Lakes Growers, a hydroponic greenhouse facility that grows leafy greens and herbs in Burton, Ohio, have broken ground on another 100,000 square foot expansion on the…

Organics Unlimited GROW Program hosts volunteers from New Seasons Market

Organics Unlimited, a San Diego-based grower and distributor of organic tropical fruit, recently hosted volunteers from New Seasons Market, Portland, Oregon-based chain of…

First batch of Taiwanese guavas land in US

The first batch of Taiwanese guava exported to the United States has arrived, after a ferry trip of more than 20 days. These 13 tons of fruit will be available…

Prepping for the Canadian pea growing season

French company Roquette to open pea processing plant by the end of 2020

Along the stretch of Trans-Canada highway between Winnipeg and Brandon, not far from Portage la Prairie, a new build is going on. French company Roquette is…

SNFL opens protocol to ship new varieties directly from Spain to Peru

As Peru has become one of the fastest growing table grape markets in the world, Special New Fruit Licensing (SNFL) has sponsored the release of a brand new protocol that will…

Special Fruit Logistica

Data-driven disruption and sustainability take centre stage at Start-up Day

Like produce itself, data with the potential to make fresh produce supply chains more manageable, predictable and sustainable must be cultivated and harvested…

Tenderstem Royale® shortlisted at Fruit Logistica Innovation Awards 2020

Fresh produce brand Tenderstem Royale® is celebrating being shortlisted for this year’s Fruit Logistica Innovation Award, making the shortlist of the ten best innovations in…

Global Focus Bananas

Chiquita announces new updated Sustainability Report

Chiquita is to launch its new and updated Sustainability Report this February, underlining the company’s long-term engagement to ensuring sustainability is embedded in…

Retail

7-Eleven: Surpassing 70,000 stores globally

Walmart is testing a slightly higher minimum wage in a few hundred of its stores

US: Fry's Food Stores founder dies at 92Charles Fry, co-founder of Fry's Food Stores, passed away on January 20, at the age of 92. Fry started the business in 1955 in…

Ecuador as a strategic partner at Fruit Logistica 2020

Ecuador's fruit and vegetable exports generated $ 3.2 billion dollars between January and November of last year. International fruit shipments, including shipments of…

British Columbia - Canada

Cultivating truffles with passion and patience

The Truffle Association of British Columbia is hoping to interest farmers in growing an "alternative crop" that could pay thousands, or very little at all.…

Trade between Philippines and US

Agreements on pineapples, blueberries to be finalized

The Philippines and the US are expected to finalize this year the bilateral trade of blueberries and pineapples. The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Plant…

National Retail Report - Specialty Crops

Last week was an active week for retailers - 185,040 fruit ads

Last week was certainly an active week for retailers with lots to promote. Then, the Year of the Rat will began on January 25. Traditional red and gold decorations, themed…

"Paraguay has the potential to be a world leader in fruit production"

According to Carlos Medina, the director of the Chilean-Paraguayan Chamber of Commerce, Paraguay has all the potential to become a world leader in fruit…

Peru readjusts its forecast for this campaign's fresh mango exports

The projection that the Association of Mango Producers and Exporters (APEM) made at the beginning of the 2019/2020 mango campaign (last November), which…

US trade mission offers opportunities for export to Philippines

Exporters of American horticultural products and food were given the opportunity to explore new business opportunities in the Philippines during a…

Good yields but high costs for Argentine potatoes

Before the imminent start of the new potato harvest in the southeast of Buenos Aires, engineers Sergio Costantino (director of Argenpapa) and Ricardo Bergonzi (private…

In 2019 AVI helped in recycling 111 million bottles to produce its PRIME range of punnets

The packaging industry as a whole, and the plastic packaging industry in particular, is having to evolve and adapt as consumers and retailers want more sustainable packaging…

Softripe sets new quality standard for ripening avocados

Frigotec GmbH will present avocados ripened by the Silver Innovation Award 2019 winning technology, Softripe®, at Fruit Logistica 2020 following successful trials in Brazil…

Packing tomatoes in paper sleeves

Jasa intends to showcase no less than four packaging solutions during Fruit Logistica in Berlin: three Sleevers and the award-winning Bag-2-Paper™. The Jasa Sleever is an…

Top-seal film can reduce packaging materials by as much as 42%

Proseal worldwide is a supplier of tray sealing machinery and allied equipment for the global soft fruit sector. Proseal enables customers to pack their products in a…

Advanced packaging cuts fresh green bean waste

The US foodservice industry is discovering the benefits of receiving fresh green bean supplies in lean, modified atmosphere bulk packaging (MAP) newly developed by sustainable…

New table-grape packaging consists of paper instead of plastic

One of the most contentious issues confronting the fresh produce sectors at the moment is unquestionably the issue of plastic packaging on fruit and vegetables. There is a…

Ricard Myburgh, Cortina Farm

Apple grower excited about new Lady in Red plantings

Ricard Myburgh has been managing his family’s fruit farm since 2012, fifty-four hectares in the Vyeboom area with all of the standard apple varieties of the South African…

Pineapple throwing takes centre stage on Australia Day as shoppers urged to buy local

Pineapples were the main focus on Australia Day, at one Queensland Hotel. Dozens turned out at the Pineapple Hotel, in Brisbane, on Australia's national day for the annual…

"Overseas sales volume of fresh Chinese chestnuts steadily grows"

"We have worked hard to open up the European market for Chinese chestnuts in the last few years, but because the variety of chestnuts is limited, European market demand…

"Higher prices for stored garlic drove export of Chinese frozen garlic cloves"

“Despite the high prices of Chinese garlic in the 2019 season, the rising prices of stored garlic have driven the export of frozen garlic cloves,” Manager…

"The percentage of large Chinese apples is quite big this year"

The overall apple production volume greatly declined in Chinese apple orchards in 2018 because weather conditions were extreme. The conditions in 2019 were…

Maciej Chmielewski - Milbor PMC:

"Machines must be available to adapt to quick change of the new kind of tray.”

Milbor PMC, the integrator of sorting and packing equipment for berries, will be present with its partner vendors: A&B Packing Equipment and WECO Sorting at the Fruit…

First report of Alternaria alternata on Quince trees in Iraq

Quince (Cydonia oblonga) is an important fruit tree that is native to the Western Asia region. Currently, it grows widely in countries with moderate and subtropical ecological…

Good season for PDO oranges from Ribera

"The trend is more than positive for the 2019/20 campaign of PDO oranges from Ribera, which confirms us as leaders in the commercialization of this precious citrus fruit.…

Tjerk Nagel, Konaxx Onions:

"Dutch growers are currently tougher than trade on the onion market"

In the weeks leading up to the end of 2019, large numbers of Dutch onions were being exported. Exports have, however, fallen considerably in recent weeks. "The borders closed…

"selling with the grower in control"

Growers Finest will start selling eggplant for Zwinkels in mid-February

Starting with the marketing of twelve hectares of eggplantsfor "Zwinkels Aubergine", that is what Growers Finest is going to do. Since the 1st of January this year, the sales…

Deceased Langkloof fruit farmer praised for his enormous contribution

The new year started badly in the Joubertina District of the Langkloof with the passing of Bokkie Kritzinger (49) of Tulpieskraal (photo right supplied by Hortgro).…

Alejandro Sales, of Ingivision: "We provide sorters with the latest technology at a very competitive cost"

New external quality detection system based on neural networks

Ingivision, which is present in more than 20 countries directly or through intermediaries, is a producer of electronic systems for fruit and vegetable sorting. This year, at…

Pepper, tomato, strawberry, persimmons, etc.

"Advancing the coloring of fruits and vegetables helps producers"

"Producers can improve the commercial category of their products by using one of our nutritional products that improve the ripening of fruits and vegetables to…

Record export of Dutch onions in 2019

After the disastrous harvest of 2018, a great year has followed for Dutch onions. The gross yield per hectare has for the time being been calculated by the Central Bureau of…

Stoffels Tomaten lays down a sharp production expansion plan, which is at an advanced stage

"The time of every new, interesting thing finding its way to store shelves is over"

Stoffels tomaten will be in the renovated Hall 27 at Fruit Logistica this year. This Belgian company has been assigned a brand new stand at the German trade show. There, they…

Dutch company, Go Products, ready for the future with the Eqrader

Go Products is a family business based in Noordoostpolder, the Netherlands. They work with different onion set growers. After years of manual sorting, they were ready to take…

Swarms now heading to Uganda and South Sudan

Kenya suffers worst locust infestation in 70 years

The worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya in 70 years has seen hundreds of millions of the insects swarm into the east African nation from Somalia and Ethiopia. Those two…

Name change: Bratzler & Co. B.V. becomes Fruit Solute

Video "Comprehensive service for avocados, kiwis and mangoes"

On 01.01.2020, Bratzler & Co. BV was renamed FRUITSOLUTE BV. In parallel to the name change, a comprehensive strategic realignment was carried out at the Dutch location in…

Tirunelveli Yellow mango

Sri Lanka: New mango variety discovered

The Department of Agriculture of Sri Lanka has discovered a mango variety that provides produce year-round. The variety has been named “Tirunelveli Yellow mango". The Director of the…

Bok choy - the next vegetable trend

Kigali has very many Chinese restaurants, and some people have probably come across cabbages, such as green, Savoy, red, Napa, bok choy, and Brussels sprouts,…

Which countries get the most paid vacation days?

Americans not getting the best deal, here.

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