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Senior Buyer | Fresh Produce | Ireland

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GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW APPLES

As a staple fruit, apples remain ever popular in households worldwide. Many production areas, however, have been affected by unusual weather conditions during the growing…

Washington pear harvest sees later start to season

Like apples in Washington, pear harvest is also delayed. “We’re just getting rolling. Typically we would have been going for a couple of weeks. But with the springtime cold…

Drought forcing vegetable acreage drop in South Texas

Texas’ drought conditions are undoubtedly severely affecting the state’s agriculture picture. “There are fewer plantings. This should mean higher prices down the road once we…

CDFA

2022 California citrus acreage report

California lemon acreage experienced biggest increase of all citrus types

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has released its 2022 California Citrus Acreage Report. The report includes detailed data on acreage broken down by…

4th annual Chef Invitational Top Chef winner announced

California Giant Berry Farms announced the winner of the 2022 Chef Invitational, Derek Seigfried from Gordon Food Service. Seigfried won the title of California Giant Berry…

Prices of organic Romaine lettuce have surged

Organic Romaine lettuce prices have jumped well over 100% between April 2021 and April 2022. The average price per pound went from $2 to $5 in that period.…

Containership backlog outside LA ports almost over

The number of containerships headed for the California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has dropped to the lowest level since the bottleneck started to…

Bangkok, 2-4 November 2022

Tickets available for Asia Fruit Logistica

Visitors can now buy their tickets online for Asia’s premier fresh produce trade show, which is back this November in Bangkok. Exhibitors from around 40 different countries and…

Since the second half of 2021, YoY dollar produce sales have continued to be higher

Research from IRI shows that every quarter since Q2 2020, the year-on-year variations of fresh fruit dollar sales at retail channels have been not only in positive territory…

Is new potato milk a cure for hangovers?

A modern-day medicine man claims to be in the process of developing the world's first potato-based hangover cure. Idaho inventor Richard H. Davis, President…

Special Avocados

Registration and exhibition space open for World Avocado Congress 2023

New Zealand avocado export season well underway

The New Zealand avocado season is well underway, the first small export volumes left for Asia in July and avocados are now being shipped to Australia and 9 Asian markets.…

Global Focus Potatoes and Onions

Kicking off fall onion season in the Northwest

Syracuse, Utah-based Onions 52 has officially kicked off its fall onion season in Washington state and Utah. With demand for new crop onions exceedingly high, it has been a…

Retail

Dreamstime

Food Bazaar opening first Manhattan location

Meijer plans to debut a new version of its brick-and-mortar stores

Costco’s Canadian sales continue to soar with boost in AugustCostco sales in Canada were up 11.6% in August as the company reported total net sales of US$17.55bln for the…

Calavo Growers, Inc. announces Q3 2022 financial results

Prepared segment delivers continued, sequential quarterly improvement

Calavo Growers, Inc. today reported its financial results for the fiscal third quarter ended July 31, 2022. Note: Third quarter results are presented under new…

Celebrating 10 years of serving families across the country with fresh produce

Brighter Bites, a nonprofit organization that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables and nutrition education resources directly into families’ hands, celebrates…

Governor Wolf announces $7 mln funding for free healthy snacks in Pennsylvania schools

Governor Tom Wolf has stated that 266 elementary schools will receive $7 million in grant funding to provide students with fresh fruit and vegetable snacks.…

Citrus greening squeezes Florida citrus industry

In 2004, the year before citrus greening arrived in the state, Florida citrus growers produced 242 million boxes of oranges. But in its latest forecast issued…

Mills administration announces 2022 Specialty Crop block grants program funding

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has announced nearly $560,000 in the Fiscal Year 2022 Specialty Crop Block Grant…

USDA

2022 Farm Sector Income forecast

Vegetable and melon cash receipts expected to rise by $1.6 billion in 2022

Net farm income, a broad measure of profits, is forecast to increase by $7.3 billion (5.2 percent) from 2021 to $147.7 billion in calendar year 2022. This expected increase…

The arrival of new raspberry varieties from different breeding programs could open new options for Peru

Even though the cultivation of raspberries has been promoted in Peru in the last decade, the production of this fruit did not continue to expand (there are…

Twelve exporters from Ecuador agreed to return 1.3 million dollars for non-compliance with the Minimum Sustainability Price for bananas

As a result of the audits carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) of Ecuador, 12 banana exporting companies already paid a total of…

Rooted Global Fruit Co – Ankia Rabie-Gerber & Ryno Palm

Namibian blueberries round out Rooted’s berry basket

The Southern African blueberry season started in July for the Rooted Global Fruit Company, with blueberries accounting for 42% of Rooted’s business and a doubling of their…

Wim Bijl, Bijl's Fruit:

"We have to make a year's earnings in a fortnight, but it's a displacement market"

Conference pear harvesting began much earlier than usual at Bijl's Fruit. "We started on August 20 with 55 people. The harvest looks good: we have lots of nice, large pears,"…

Proposals for Polish apples contain lower prices than last year

“The cost of production for apples has significantly increased, but it seems that nobody cares”

There is a risk that Polish organic apples will not have enough labor for the complete harvest, says Agro Queen's purchase & quality manager Mr. Łukasz Michalak: “The crop for…

“September will be our peak month in terms of exports”

The Turkish grape season is in full swing and Turkish exporter Hatipoglu Tarim is facing the busiest month of the season, as export specialist Cihan Kocar explains: “We’re…

Sterling suffered worst month since Brexit

In August, Sterling suffered its sharpest monthly fall against the US dollar post-Brexit, as political uncertainty and a historic cost-of-living crisis weigh…

Coregeo and Hochfeld to develop Sunburst apple variety as brand

Coregeo, a global specialist in IP protection, brand development and management, has partnered with Hochfeld one of Europe’s foremost independent fruit…

Maersk Asia Pacific market update (August 2022)

'Supply chains will come under further strain in the next few weeks'

A.P. Moller Maersk published a press release stating: We expect that supply chains will come under further strain in the next few weeks especially in Europe…

Presentation in Riyadh on September 13th

Macfrut "moves" to Saudi Arabia

Macfrut, the International Fresh Produce Fair, will present what's new for the 2023 edition in Riyadh together with its partners (Regione Emilia-Romagna and Consorzio Cermac) as well…

Perfection Fresh and Tess Fresh unite to grow convenience in fresh produce

Perfection Fresh is announcing it will be taking a controlling interest in Tess Fresh, a company in the fresh food industry creating and producing processed and packed fruit &…

Highly anticipated New Zealand bred apricots closer to fruition

New Zealand’s summerfruit industry has established NZ Summerfresh Ltd to commercialise the first three new apricot cultivars released by Plant & Food Research after nearly two…

World Coconut Day celebrated

Every year, September 2 is celebrated as World Coconut Day. It is an initiative by the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. The…

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