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Citrus, avocado and grape importer announces new warehouse expansion

LGS Specialty Sales, an importer of citrus, avocados, grapes and persimmons, announces the opening of its new 235,000-square-foot warehouse. As a mandarin importer in North…

Yuma, Arizona region offers up its own challenges for lettuce supplies

It’s starting to feel like Mother Nature just keeps coming for North America’s lettuce supplies as they continue to be limited. Lettuce volume at the end of the Salinas…

2022 North America cranberry crop offers modest improvements over 2021’s crop

This year’s cranberry crop has improved over last year’s. However, not as much as growers had hoped for. Following last year’s disappointing crop, the August forecast for this…

California and Mexico growers unite in bringing organic vegetables to market

The Borquez family and the Deardorff family have each independently farmed for generations. The Deardorff family has been farming ever since they started in the 1930s in Los…

New cherry varieties shows promise to make Chilean season even earlier

In Chile the race is not only on to get tons of cherries to China in time for the earlier New Year, but also to breed and evaluate new early maturing cherry varieties that…

Avocado board program educates future board participants

As the $7 billion avocado industry in the U.S. continually navigates opportunities as well as challenges that impact its future, emerging leaders are investing their time for…

Food safety tech firm starts shipping new pathogen-killing product

SmartWash Solutions, a food safety technology company, has begun shipping EPIC Panel Sterilight, a new patent-pending product designed to safely and automatically kill…

Ecuador exported 34.1 million fewer boxes of bananas up to October 2022

The world leader in banana exports, Ecuador, has seen a -10.81% drop, with 34.1 million less boxes in exports from January to October 2022. A cumulative 280.0 million boxes…

Changing climate: Not all bad news for Maine blueberry growers

Maine blueberry grower Courtney Hammond spent the past summer developing a makeshift irrigation system, using sprinkler heads and hoses that he scraped…

Weekly Argentinian blueberry arrivals - 2022 / 2023

Total global blueberry shipments from Argentina at 4.228 tons until now

In week 47, Argentine blueberry shipments to the US amounted to 67 tons, of which 62 were shipped by boat. Weekly Argentinean blueberry arrivals to the US for 2022 / 2023 up…

Special Greenhouse

J. Huete International builds high-tech greenhouse for seed research in South America

J. Huete International has begun the construction of a high-tech greenhouse dedicated to seed research in South America for a major international agricultural producer. The…

Global Focus Citrus

Jesús Cucala, sales manager of Campal:

"The demand for quality clementines is very high and prices are good"

The clementine campaign is currently underway with the Clemenules variety, which has arrived with notably lower volumes and a significant price difference between the good…

Retail

Is being the low price leader critical to Amazon’s ongoing success?

US Foods names Dave Flitman as CEODave Flitman will be the new chief executive officer and board member of leading foodservice distributor US Foods Holding Corp., effective…

Avocado grower-shipper enters licensing partnership with Old El Paso brand

Calavo Growers, a global avocado grower/shipper and provider of value-added fresh food, announced a brand licensing partnership with General Mills as the exclusive…

Hortifrut grows its quarterly income by 19% thanks to dynamic blueberry offer

A strong rise in the sale of fresh fruit has given the world's largest blueberry marketer, Hortifrut, a dynamic boost, adding revenues of US$ 627 million in…

"We want to minimize the impact of chilling damage on avocado quality"

Avocado is a subtropical fruit with a respiratory climacteric, many varieties are oval, with green skin. The main commercial variety, Hass, is purple-black when ripe. Avocados…

The first fruit company to partner with China's aerospace industry

Joy Wing Mau Group and China Aerospace reach strategic cooperation

On Tuesday November 29th, China successfully launched its ‘Shenzhou-XV’ manned spaceship on its way to the China Manned Space Agency. Simultaneously, a celebratory signing…

"The overall price of Jinqiu Tangerines is slightly higher than in previous years"

The Jinqiu Tangerine is a new variety of early-ripening citrus in China. Due to its early launch and comprehensive properties, the market price is ideal. It has been promoted…

The price of Vietnamese bananas doubles after Chinese market opens

In the first nine months of 2022, China spent more than US$213.4 million buying fresh bananas from Vietnam. Banana prices in the Mekong Delta doubled recently when the fruit…

Demand for pomegranates triples at Christmas

"Demand for pomegranates usually starts to increase rapidly starting from the first week of December," reports Dario De Lisi, sales manager at Masseria Fruttirossi, the…

Patrick Larrère, Fermes Larrère:

France: Choudou cabbage sales on the rise

The Choudou cabbage produced by Fermes Larrère continues to progress on the market. The variety is available all year round, as it is cultivated from July to December in the…

Miguel Gonzàlez, MG Fruit:

"Uncertainty, challenges characterize Spanish season"

"The season started well. From early September, everything was in slightly short supply. So the first products from Almeria and Murcia looked promising,"…

Oscar van Turenhout, OV Fruit:

"Spanish products are under pressure"

"Things are going pretty well," OV Fruit's Oscar van Turenhout, a Dutch fruit and vegetable trader, summarizes the Spanish vegetable market in early November.…

Schaap Holland:

"Potatoes are becoming popular again"

"Basic product sales are up," begins Moniek Wisse, Schaap Holland's account manager for, among others, marketing freshly peeled potatoes to the retail and foodservice sectors.…

Europe continues to import Iranian pistachios despite sanctions

In the first three quarters of 2022, Iran exported 95 million euros of pistachios to the European Union. According to Eurostat, the figure is down 39% compared…

Five containers of Moldovan apples ready to ship to India – Moldova Fruct

Due to the Russian war against Ukraine and the Russian embargo on Moldovan fruits, local producers are looking for new markets. Among the alternatives are the…

Good news for Brazilian exporters

UK suspends tariffs on fruit juices

Brazilian orange juice shipments to the UK should benefit from the recent decision by the British government to suspend tariffs on concentrated and…

Sharon Kirk - Southern Fruits International

Good volumes of NZ cherries for for Lunar New Year

The first cherry varieties from New Zealand's Southern Fruits International are usually ready by late December and the harvest then continues with varieties ripening…

Zespri releases climate change adaption plan

Zespri has today released its first ever Climate Change Adaptation Plan – Adapting to Thrive in a Changing Climate – outlining how the kiwifruit industry…

Tasmania adaps to changes to minimum wage legislation

New app to monitor fruit pickers

In the Tasmanian horticulture sector, this year things are a little different for growers and pickers; a new fixed award rate of pay is prompting change in orchards and berry patches…

Australia: Macadamia growers produce higher than anticipated crop

Australian macadamia growers seem to have recovered from the record rains and flooding in NSW and South East Queensland earlier this year. They are about to…

Green apples, red apples: Which one is more nutritious ?

As is well-know, apples are rich in antioxidants, flavonoids, pectin, and quercetin that help to protect the cells in the body from oxidative damage. This…

Eating green leafy vegetables might reduce risk of fractures later in life

A large-scale study by Edith Cowan University’s Nutrition and Health Innovation Research Institute indicates that people who eat a diet rich in vitamin K1 have…

South Korea has almost zero food waste. Here’s what we can learn

Every few months or so, 69-year-old Seoul resident Hwang Ae-soon stops by a local convenience store to buy a 10-piece bundle of special yellow plastic bags. Since 2013, under…

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