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Africa Fruit Export Sales Manager - South Africa

Grower - Philippines

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Food Safety and Quality Director - South Bend (IN) USA

Commercial Manager - United Kingdom or The Netherlands

Tomato Grower, Chapais - Canada

Director of UbiGro Sales - California, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada USA

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Greenhouse Crop Specialist - Southwestern Ontario, Canada

Greenhouse Product Development Specialist - Leamington (Ontario) Canada

Texas logistics stabilize, crop damage still being assessed

While the weather in Texas is currently back up to comfortable levels, the cold snap of last week has caused many challenges for the produce industry. Not only are growers…

In particular from North America and Europe

High demand for Argentinian pears this season

Argentina’s pear harvest started with normal timing between weeks two and three this season. The season always kicks off with the Williams Bartlett pear, which is the main…

New York State

As is mirrored in the national crop, New York State is down in apple supplies. “New York State is down in some varieties—we’re going to have to manage some varieties to go…

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Africa Fruit Export Sales Manager - South Africa

Rectification grape update Vanguard International

This past Wednesday, Vanguard International published an update on the grape market in the southern hemisphere. One of the key growing countries, Peru, was…

Vital citrus trade ties between Japan & Florida underlined on 'Grapefruit Day'

Kenji Hirata is Consul General of Japan for Florida. Yesterday, he wrote an opinion piece on the relations between the US state and the Asian country, as a…

Bonduelle Amérique du Nord inc.

Another option for consumers who prefer healthy, natural foods

Bonduelle launches new line of vegetables tested for pesticide residues

A pioneer in sustainable agriculture and plant-based food, Bonduelle Group is launching a new line of frozen vegetables that are tested for pesticide residues. Sold under the…

IQonsulting

Chile Crop and Export Report 2021, Week 7

'Week 06 developments normal, without weather interruptions'

The harvests are coming to an end in the south central zone, leaving the last orchards with late varieties with very limited volumes. The southern zone also shows decreasing…

Chinese grape market exceptionally fastidious this season

South African grapes: “It’s not a vintage year”

There’s just not been strong demand from any market in the Far East for table grapes, traders say, and in China they’re hoping the many containers of Chilean cherries that…

USDA

USDA Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade

US exports forecast up $5.0 billion to record $157.0 billion in FY 2021

U.S. agricultural exports in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 are projected at $157.0 billion, up $5.0 billion from the November forecast, driven by higher oilseed and grain export…

United Fresh releases Winter 2021 edition of Fresh Insights for Foodservice

The Winter 2021 issue of United Fresh’s Fresh Insights for Foodservice is now available. Sponsored by Produce Alliance, this quarterly report highlights…

Special Asia

New appreciation for Kyoto’s heirloom vegetables

Vegetables unique to the Kyoto area are often called Kyo-yasai. One factor that makes Kyo-yasai unique is their size. They are usually quite large. Many are…

Global Focus Organics

Dreamtime.com

Romanian consumers spend RON650 million on organic food yearly

Romanian consumers spend about 650 million lei (€137 mln) on organic food (or 1.2% of the entire spending on food in the country), ZF has calculated from the data supplied by…

Retail

Dreamstime

Hy-Vee: Winner of the 2021 Healthiest State Large Workplace Award

Giant urban flagship store in Philadelphia

Walmart's Mexico unit boosts logistics spending in $1bln capex planWalmart’s Mexico unit will ramp up logistics spending this year as a part of a 22.2bln peso ($1.09bln) plan…

Start of the cucumber harvest in Knoblauchsland

"Cucumber prices will inevitably rise due to CO2 tax"

In the Franconian Knoblauchsland, this year's cucumber harvest is almost getting started. Vegetable farmer Willi Sippel is in the process of harvesting the first domestic…

SmartPac

Protective packaging for small fruits and more

Intensive productions require particular attention to safeguard them, especially if we are talking about small fruits such as blueberries. Packaging is essential as, if…

Bogdány Petrol Ltd.

Protecting the orchards with anti-frost candles

Bogdány Petrol is producing special, paraffin based wax and oil products for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, wood, metal, cable, printing and fertilizer industries world-wide.…

Michiel Minnaar: "Successful test with Otflow on mangos from Peru to Europe"

Cold weather puts Otflow to the test

Last week, Otflow, in collaboration with a leading exotics exporter, conducted a test with Otflow, a special eleven-meter-long floor-cover made from recycled and…

Pieter Gabriëls on new Bejo/DGS seed shallot Innovator:

"Shallots should not be mistaken for small onions"

After years of breeding work, Bejo and De Groot & Slot are presenting a seed shallot with high resistance to downy mildew on the market. The variety called Innovator is the…

Maurits van de Water (Van de Water Fruit Group) on Burg MachineFabriek installations

"Water purification installation always worth it for more than ten channels"

The busiest weeks for sorting Sweet Sensation pears have arrived at Van de Water Fruit Group in Waalwijk. The fruit is sorted on a 2x four-track machine from Perfect with…

Ernst Slabbekoorn, frostfans.eu, the Netherlands

"Mobile night frost machine is quiet and protects crops well against night frost”

In recent years, between March and May, many European growers have had to increasingly deal with night frost. Since last year, Swift International has been distributing mobile…

José Enrique Sanz, manager of the PGI Cítricos Valencianos: "The Valencian citrus sector should look after the fruit's origin"

High demand for citrus, rising prices and growing interest in certification of origin labels

The Spanish citrus campaign has taken an important turn in its second half, with price rises recorded both in the field and in the markets. The PGI Cítricos Valencianos is…

Cuadraspania launches fresh ready-to-eat violet artichoke hearts

"In two weeks, we lost 50% of the artichoke production"

The artichoke campaign goes on in southeastern Spain following the impact on the productions of the exceptional low temperatures that were recorded in January due to storm…

Free stock of onions 10% lower than multiple year average

In the past week, VTA has had the second stock inventory for onions carried out among its members for the 2020 - 2021 season. The main conclusions at the moment are: The…

GOCITRUS

Markers revolutionize the procurement, registration, nurseries, and varietal identification of the citrus sector

The term PCR, which is widely used nowadays to refer to the most reliable diagnostic method to detect COVID-19, is based on the same technology that is drastically changing…

Research reveals opportunity for UK blueberries

Retail analysis carried out by Delytics Ltd in collaboration with James Hutton Ltd has identified a premium branding opportunity for blueberries in the UK. The analysis…

Horticulture Statistics Handbook

Value growth in key fruit sectors helps push Australian horticulture value over $15billion

Continued growth in the apple and berry sectors has helped the Australian horticulture industry pass the $15billion value milestone, according to the latest data in the…

First edition of Morocco Berry Conference to take place on 7 and 8 April

The first Edition of the Morocco Berry Conference gathered more than 550 delegates from around 25 countries. It was a great occasion to learn, meet, interact,…

Several Nepalese orange harvests cut in half due to pests

Orange growers in Karnali are very distressed because their harvests are slashed due to a pest attack during the flowering period. Experts attribute the pest…

All over Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai

Retail rates for onions climb to Rs 55-60 after unseasonal rain

Onion prices, which were high throughout 2020, saw another spike on Saturday. Retail rates soared to Rs55-60/kg across Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai. Consumers…

Maharashtra, India

Seven years of research results in new banana variety

After seven years of research, the Jalgaon Banana Research Centre (BRC) -under the Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV)- has come up with a new kind of…

Kuehne+Nagel

Kuehne+Nagel acquires Asian logistics provider Apex International Corporation

Kuehne+Nagel enters into a binding agreement to acquire Apex International Corporation (“Apex”), one of Asia’s leading freight forwarders, especially in the transpacific and…

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