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Senior Grower Manager | Soft Fruit | California

Product Manager - Hann. Münden, Germany

Full Time Sales Representative - New York, Pennsylvania, Maine & Connecticut, USA

Stone Fruit Sales Category Manager - Europe Division

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Cultivation/Propagation Manager Young Plants - Australia

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Florida blueberry volumes enter a strong market

The Florida blueberry season is slowly starting up. Adam Roe of Noble Citrus shares: “We are starting to get a bit of fruit this week and then next week we should really be…

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Delayed start for some California asparagus

Some California asparagus will get an intentionally late start this year for spring production. Craig Rolandelli of San Ramon, Ca.-based Jacobs, Malcolm &…

PMA back in Monterey for Foodservice Conference 2021

Produce Marketing Association has announced that the association will bring the industry back together – in person – in Monterey, CA for the Foodservice…

Washington apple exporter comments on container shortages and shipping delays

The logistics challenges that have been caused by multiple pandemic-related factors have been getting increasingly worse, says Donna Feltrup, Export Manager at L&M Companies.…

25-acre tomato/strawberry greenhouse expansion for Ontario grower

With the increasing demand for locally grown greenhouse produce, DelFrescoPure® announces phase 1 its 25-acre greenhouse production expansion. The expansion will be in full…

Shippers fleeing port congestion on the West Coast of the US arrive in Houston

The congestion and pressure in the ports on the US west coast, such as Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland, have forced shippers to search for other entry…

Third estimate of the 2020-2021 season

ASOEX forecasts Chilean table grape exports will decrease by 12%

According to the third estimate made by the Chilean table grape sector, the country will export 64,582,046 boxes of 8.2 kilos in the 2020-2021 season are…

The ugly truth:

More consumers will buy unattractive fruits and veggies when they’re labeled ‘ugly’

Few marketers would recommend that clients call their products ugly — but new research from the UBC Sauder School of Business shows that when it comes to selling misshapen…

IQonsulting

Crop and Export Report 2021, Week 10

Chile: Blueberry harvest in southern zone in its final stage

The harvest in the central-south zone is already finished, while the south zone is in its final stage, with the last harvests concentrated in Los Ríos Region and with volumes…

Methamphetamine - hidden within spinach shipment

Over $1.3 million worth of narcotics seized at Otay Mesa

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa commercial facility discovered over $1.3 million worth of methamphetamine hidden within a shipment…

Global Focus Bananas

Biotropic bananas now in folding crates

"Savings effects continue at our banana ripening facility"

A year ago, wholesaler BioTropic launched the project 'Reusable packaging for bananas' and it now relies on EPS reusable crates, especially developed for bananas. From now on,…

Special Australia / New Zealand

Maungatapere Berries expands North in partnership with Ngāpuhi

Whangārei’s berry producer Maungatapere Berries is set to expand its operations into Kaikohe through a partnership with Ngāpuhi Asset Holding Company and Far North Holdings…

Retail

Dreamstime

Brazilian retail sales fell in January for a 3rd consecutive month

SpartanNash: Finance team transitions

Brazil retail sales fall in January for third month in a rowBrazilian retail sales fell in January for a third consecutive month, official figures showed, largely in line with…

Agriculture coalition files lawsuit challenging Coachella urgency ordinance

A coalition of agricultural organizations has filed a lawsuit in Riverside Superior Court to block Coachella’s urgency ordinance mandating that farmers and…

Ecuador reopens its market to Peruvian grapes

The agreement reached between Peru's National Agrarian Health Service (Senasa) and Ecuador's Animal and Plant Health Service (Agrocalidad) will allow Peruvian…

Delaware fruit and vegetable growers who pass Food Safety Audits eligible for cost-share

Delaware fruit and vegetable growers who receive a passing score on their third-party food safety audits and agricultural water tests are eligible to receive…

Due to late January downpours in Chile

Grapes might become hard to find at US grocers

Heavy and unusual downpours in late January devastated unharvested grapes in Chile, the world’s no. 1 exporter. According to grape expert John Pandol , the rainfall…

USDA

U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement seasonal perishable products Weekly Update

'Mexican asparagus movement expected to remain about the same'

This report provides trend analysis of the volume and prices of Seasonal Perishable commodities. Volume represents current week and prices represent open (spot) market sales…

USDA cites New Hampshire company for PACA violations

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on JLD Inc., doing business as North Country Wholesale, North Conway, N.H., for violating the…

US: Tarping proven to reduce Asian citrus psyllid movement

Researchers at the California Data Analysis and Tactical Operations Center (DATOC) have analyzed Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) trapping data along major…

Banana farmers want EC$1.9 million loan guarantee from Saint Lucia government

The reluctance of the Government of Saint Lucia to guarantee an EC$1.9 million loan from the Saint Lucia Development Bank (SLDB) to the National Fair Trade…

Colombian blueberry exports increased by 387% in 2020

Blueberry was one of the most outstanding products of Colombian agriculture in 2020, registering a growth of 387% over the previous year with international…

Spain and Mexico were the leading exporters of cucumber in 2020

According to data from Eurostat and the Mexican Ministry of Economy, Spain and Mexico led the global exports of cucumbers and gherkins in 2020, accounting for…

Peru has the potential to export nearly 70 million boxes of table grapes without increasing the cultivation area

The general manager of Exportadora Safco Peru, Benjamin Cilloniz Guerrero, said that the table grape industry continued to grow in Peru. At the end of…

Sunraycer, an opportunity to enhance the productive system of the valleys of Jujuy

INTA presents a new nectarine cultivar

The National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) presented the second nectarine cultivar evaluated and selected in the Jujuy region. The cultivar is…

China remains a main export market

2020/2021 Citrus production in Egypt and South Africa rises

As a result of expanding acreages in production and favorable weather during the flowering and fruit setting periods, the total production of Egyptian oranges…

Citral, a promising natural preservative for postharvest quality extension in kiwifruit

Citral is an aliphatic aldehyde extracted from citrus essential oil. Scientists at Jiangxi Agricultural University (China) have examined how citral treatment affects the…

Giddings Fruit is preparing for coming US cherry season

“Consumer confidence in cherries is gradually building up”

The Chinese imported cherry market is gradually recovering and, over time, and through intense promotional activities, consumers are starting to have more confidence in…

Taiwanese pineapples qualify for Tokyo Olympics

Officials have stated that Taiwan's pineapples, along with mangoes, dragon fruit, and bananas, have met the requirements to be served at the Tokyo Olympics. On…

Vietnamese wholesale markets confirm drop in waste

According to the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, due to partial treatment at the source, the amount of waste relative to the total amount of…

Jupiter’s Greek plum project trials six new varieties

Global fresh produce grower Jupiter Group are thrilled to announce that they will be trialling six new varieties of South African plums in the northern hemisphere for the…

An overview of the situation with a wholesaler

Downturn for oranges with the exception of the organic ones

The fact that the orange market has so far had below-average returns for producers is nothing new. This situation has been going on since the beginning of the campaign, but it…

Aurelio Manuzzi: "The large-scale retail trade is doing well, the HORECA sector is a disaster"

A two-speed trend for the dried fruit market

The dried fruit sector is struggling with stratospheric costs for renting shipping containers from abroad. The trend in the sector has been upwards for many years, but Covid…

Sicilia Bedda

Canary yellow melon Duci is now also grown in Sicily

"Sicilia Bedda" is a company specializing in the cultivation of Canary yellow melons. Last year, it introduced watermelons to its range, and there is some news for the…

Solid performance in 2020 - positive outlook for the year 2021

CMA CGM Financial results for the year 2020

The Board of Directors of the CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, met today under the chairmanship of Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief…

Shipping industry changes tack after container crisis

Following the effects of the Covid pandemic, giant container ships that take goods from China and the Far East to western consumers faced delays at ports.…

Artes Politecnica in Italy

Video Insect nets: Good experiences for monoblock and monorow installation

As spring is approaching dangerous pests begin to wake up after winter and start to threaten our orchards. The Asiatic stink bug is probably one of the most dangerous and…

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