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Alex Guzman, CEO of Huercasa USA:

"US demand for value-added produce has gone up this year"

Demand for value-added produce has risen this year as more consumers have been cooking at home due to the ongoing complications. Huercasa offers Ready to Eat produce range,…

Brian Numainville of the Retail Feedback Group:

“Consumers are gravitating toward price-focused retailers like Aldi during pandemic”

Discount retailers such as Aldi and Lidl have been seeing growth in the US market, and both Aldi and Lidl have significant expansion plans for the coming years. According to…

Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman:

"Guacamole is always a part of my Super Bowl menu, this year won't be different"

This year Avocados From Mexico launched their first ever in-store celebrity shopper engagement program to encourage avocado consumption during the Super Bowl. The program,…

Where will pricing go on Chilean cherries?

Imported cherries will begin this week with fruit from Chile and from Argentina. “Every year Chile is expanding acreage and their volume that’s available.…

IFG looks forward to securing its intellectual property rights for grape varieties in China

International Fruit Genetics (IFG) a California-based fruit breeding company has filed for patent / plant breeders' rights / plant variety rights and trademark…

Better green bean supplies for Thanksgiving 2020 compared to last year

Supplies of green beans are ample for this month’s U.S. Thanksgiving. “Supplies look very good. It’s night and day to last year,” says Mark Munger with 4Earth Farms in Los…

Ocean Mist Farms

Recent freeze brings a special winter option for a limited time: Frost Kissed® artichokes

Ocean Mist Farms, the grower and marketer of fresh artichokes, welcomes the first Frost Kissed® crop of the season. The Frost Kissed artichokes are currently being shipped to…

Sev-Rend announces addition of James (JC) Nyssen to the team

Sev-Rend announced the addition of James (JC) Nyssen as their new Pacific Northwest Sales Manager. Bringing JC Nyssen on as the Pacific Northwest Sales Manager…

SmartWash Solutions®

Study shows reduction of foodborne illness risk in leafy greens with new pretreatment

SmartWash Solutions®, a produce industry company for fresh cut food safety, continues to provide advancements to mitigate foodborne illness risk. A recent…

Viva Fresh Expo launches Clean Eating Challenge 2.0

After the success of last year’s Clean Eating Challenge, Viva Fresh launched its second annual health and wellness campaign on October 1. The challenge will…

Chiquita deploys nationwide disaster response to Hurricane Eta relief effort

Chiquita is lending a helping hand to Central Americans impacted by Hurricane Eta by spearheading donation efforts from its North American headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, FL.…

Special Wholesale markets

Thomas Stütz, Früchte Braun LLC:

"Thanks to the sales from our stocks we are able to fully utilize our employees, even in the lockdown"

The German fruit and vegetable industry is back in lockdown mode. Delivery and collection services are being resumed and wholesalers are opening their doors to consumers to…

Global focus citrus

Market supply is larger than demand

Product quality of Chinese tangerines is less than ideal

The overall surface area devoted to tangerines in Sichuan has not increased this year, and the production volume is more or less the same as last year. However, the product…

Retail

Food Lion: Early termination granted of the HSR waiting period to acquire 62 stores from Southeastern Grocers

Walmart and self-driving car company Cruise pilot grocery deliveries in Arizona

US: UNFI reaches labor accords with Teamsters in New York, CaliforniaUnited Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) and Teamsters union locals in New York and California have agreed to new…

Berry company introduces new look and messaging for their labels

International grower and year-round marketer of strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries, Wish Farms, has introduced a new look and messaging for its labels.…

FDA announces investigation of a third outbreak of E. coli O157:H7

The following quote is attributed to Frank Yiannas, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response: “The FDA is investigating a third outbreak of Shiga…

Nominations now accepted for 2021 Produce Excellence in Foodservice Awards Program

United Fresh has opened the nomination period for the 2021 Produce Excellence in Foodservice Awards Program. Developed to honor the foodservice industry’s most…

Sunions®

Tearless and sweet onions hit retail shelves this week

Sunions®, the tearless and sweet onion, are hitting retail shelves this week. Decades of research and a tightly controlled testing protocol are to thank for…

Percentage of children and adolescents who consumed any fruit on a given day decreased with age

CDC investigates fruit and veg consumption among children and adolescents in the US from 2015-2018

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), 2015–2020 (1), recommends consuming different types of vegetables, including dark green, red or orange, starchy,…

Research suggests that people who regularly eat chilli peppers live longer

A recent study proposes that eating chilli peppers regularly could provide previously unrecognised health benefits. It states that chilli eaters may have a…

U.S. potato exports still impacted by pandemic, but beginning to recover

U.S. potato exports for the July – September quarter were down significantly compared to the same period in 2019. This drop is a result of the pandemic’s…

Items include orange juice and sweet potatoes

EU imposes tariffs on $4 billion of US goods

The European Union will impose tariffs on up to US$4 billion of U.S. imports in retaliation for U.S. subsidies for Boeing , but said on Monday it was hopeful…

Eta ravaged more than 22,000 hectares of crops as it passed through Guatemala

According to data from Guatemala's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food (MAGA) that was gathered up to November 9, the Eta tropical depression damaged…

Peru seeks access for new products to the US market

Peru is seeking to export more products to the United States, one of the main destinations for the country's blueberries, asparagus, and table grapes.…

Honduras positions itself as Costa Rica's leading Hass avocado supplier

Honduras' Hass avocado has gone from accounting for 4.17% of all Costa Rican imports of this fruit in 2018 to 30% in the first nine months of 2020, positioning…

Asoex expects Chile will set a new record in the 2020-2021 season

Chilean cherry exports are estimated to grow by almost 36%

According to Asoex's Cherry Committee's first estimate, in the 2020-2021 season, the country's cherry industry is getting ready to break the 228,592 tons export record it…

Almost half of La Mancha PDO's saffron production is shipped to the US

7 to 10 days before the end of the saffron harvest in the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha, the Regulatory Council of the Azafrán de La Mancha Designation…

Spain

New device to determine quality and shelf life of fruits and vegetables in real time

A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) has patented a device that makes it possible to estimate the quality losses that a…

Increased testing to continue in December

Will ozone become a viable alternative for CIPC?

Sprout inhibitor CIPC has been officially banned in the Netherlands and Belgium with France and the rest of the European Union expected to follow soon. The impact on the…

Patrick Bauwens, Aucxis, Belgium

“Auctions are still the best way to determine correct reference prices”

The Belgian company, Aucxis, is active in 26 countries globally. It's known in Belgian and Dutch fresh produce sectors mainly for its auctioning systems. "Auction automation…

Richard Neuhoff (EcoMark LLC) on the erroneous monopolisation of 'natural branding'

"Use of laser technology is allowed for everyone; it is not a protected process"

"With almost 15 years of experience, we are pioneers in the gentle product marking of fruit and vegetables using lasers," a recently published press release from Spanish…

It's like playing chess in an international context

The banana industry is facing a very difficult time

"The banana business is in a very complicated, difficult situation," said Alessandro Dal Bello, vice president Dal Bello-Sife. “There is a lot of product in the ports,…

PSB Producción Vegetal plants 45,000 new hybrids in Murcia and France

New improvement program for flat nectarine, plum and cherry varieties

PSB Producción Vegetal, a company that produces and distributes hybrid stone fruits, is carrying out a new program to improve flat nectarine, plum and cherry varieties. The…

Saving costs and sustainability go hand in hand

"Whoever says strawberries, says Hoogstraten. Rightly so, because Hoogstraten Cooperative grew out of strawberry cultivation. In the meantime, Hoogstraten is also known as the…

Stefano Foschi from Bioplanet

Anastatus bifasciatus the best weapon against brown marmorated stink bug

It is now possible to make the first evaluations on the biological control of the brown marmorated stink bug in a year when its presence in Italy seems to have generally…

Gert Last, Mondipal, the Netherlands

“Shallower plastic fruit boxes provide more space and a little less pressure”

Most fruit growers probably have large cubic crates. They mainly use these to store apples and pears for long periods in ULO cold stores. These are often crates with a height…

Chilean cherries sell well in China after early-season imports of US and Canadian cherries was limited

The Chilean cherry export season is in full swing. China is the largest importer of Chilean cherries, and has been for years. Chilean cherries are as popular…

APAL call for collaboration as US imports working group gets busy

APAL’s US Apples Access working group are is currently working steadfastly to submit a review of the scientific biosecurity threat posed by the proposed import…

MSC to take part in Asia Fruit Logistica ON and speak at Cool Logistics Asia

MSC will be taking part at the upcoming Asia Fruit Logistica (AFL) ON, the leading continental trade show for Asia’s fresh produce business, which is happening…

Dirk Burger – Sun World

The grape replacing South Africa’s Thompson Seedless

The latest vine census of the South African table grape industry indicates that over the past year, a quarter of South Africa’s Thompson Seedless vineyards were removed. At…

Weather monitoring to improve table grape disease management in Western Australia

High-tech weather stations are being installed on four table grape properties across Western Australia's Swan Valley, South West and Gascoyne, as part of a new project to…

Aweta installs an apple sorting and packaging line in Chile

The apples of Southern Chile are waiting for news. In the Unifrutti plant in Linares (total storage capacity 25,658 m2), the installation of a modern Aweta line for sorting…

Rijk Zwaan

Rijk Zwaan at Asia Fruit Logistica

Responding to a changing market

The coronavirus outbreak appears to be reinforcing four key consumer trends in particular. At Asia Fruit Logistica ON 2020, Rijk Zwaan will be sharing details of solutions…

Xinyang Normal University, China:

Telling children that carrots help them see in the dark ‘can damage them in later life’

Researchers from China’s Xinyang Normal University have stated that telling kids ‘white lies’ like “Eating carrots will help you see in the dark” could give them psychological…

YY Nation from Wellington

Eco-friendly shoes made from pineapple husk for footwear sustainability

There is a new, eco-friendly shoe collection from New Zealand, made from products like bamboo, algae, sugarcane and pineapple husk. Produced by Wellington-based start-up YY…

Improving sperm quality with dietary changes

Studies recommend intake of walnuts, almonds, leafy vegetables and fresh fruits

Millions of people in this world are infertile and some scientists expect this number to rise with time. With regard to infertility in men, it is thought a person’s diet is…

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