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Lead Grower - Stevensburg (VA) USA

Assistant Crop Manager - Tasmania

Post-Harvest Quality Manager - Europe

Farm Operator - Kearny (NJ) USA

Cultivation Manager - MI, USA

Export Sales Manager (Europe Division)

Africa Fruit Export Sales Manager

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Young Plant Program Manager (WA)

Plant Pathologist - Kearny (NJ) USA

Slower start but strong quality on Northwest cherries for 2021

“When you’re growing cherries, you’re one of the first summer fruits available and riding that edge of the storm.” So says James Michael of the Yakima, WA-based Northwest…

Lid Mates

Sustainable lid product for growers and retailers alike

CKF, Inc. has added to its line-up of reduced plastic packaging with the newly redesigned Earthcycle Lid Mates™. The Lid Mates marry a clear recyclable PET lid with an…

Key findings on Canadian post-COVID shopping preferences and habits

Execulytics Consulting, a consulting firm for the fresh produce industry, has completed an in-depth report that highlights Canadian shopper preferences in a…

The Valencian Community didn't export clementines, mandarins, nor Valencian oranges to the US market in 2020

The 25% increase in US tariffs on different European agri-food products announced by the Trump administration in October 2019, in the context of the conflict…

Last remaining California pole-grown tomatoes

Harvest of vine-ripened tomatoes is around the corner

More than a million poles stretch toward the sky on 750 rolling acres in Oceanside, CA, graced by vines that will yield the season’s first vine-ripened roma and round tomatoes…

Heat sealable paper packaging receives recyclable certification

Wisconsin based The Paper People LLC, announced today that the company has received their official “certified recyclable” certificate from Western Michigan University in…

Grape grower-importer partners with American Institute for Cancer Research

Divine Flavor and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) launched a partnership to spread awareness to consumers of how table grapes can be part of a plant-based…

Local Bounti pipeline includes 8 facilities by the end of 2025

Lettuce growers expand, expand and expand

US greenhouse company Local Bounti is more than doubling the size of its flagship facility in Hamilton, Montana, and plans to break ground on two additional facilities in the…

PlantTape announces promotions

PlantTape®, an automated transplanting system, announces the promotion of Lance Portman to president and Hunter Smith to vice president of agriculture and sales. The two…

Workers critical to US fruit volumes in danger from extreme heat

The extreme heat that is hitting huge parts of the US West is threatening the working conditions of the laborers that pick America’s fruit and vegetable crops.…

Import of US blueberries to India on the rise

The US Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) has said that the import of US blueberries to India has increased over the past few years. The organization said that…

Special Mediterranean

Cherry campaign about to end in Apulia

The Apulian cherry campaign will end in a few days' time and has been characterized by yields above average, low prices and daily protests. "The harvesting of the Ferrovia…

Global Focus Cooling and Logistics

Girteka Logistics continues growth of intermodal rail capacity

Girteka Logistics has continued the growth of its intermodal rail capacity, which has resulted in growth of the number of shipments done utilizing the sustainable…

Retail

Dreamstime

DoorDash and Albertsons Companies: New partnership

Uber to become the sole owner of Cornershop

What US grocers could learn from Alibaba’s connected supermarket experienceWhen it comes to integrating eCommerce into the brick-and-mortar grocery experience, China may be…

South Carolina Lori Anne peaches back in stores for summer

Lori Anne Peaches are back in stores at select retailers nationwide. For more than 10 years, Titan Farms has grown the Lori Anne Peach, where only the top 20 percent of its…

Lineage Logistics announces acquisition of the Cold Storage Division of Claus Sørensen Group

Lineage Logistics, LLC, a leading global temperature-controlled industrial REIT and logistics solutions provider, today announced its intention to acquire the…

Sweet corn slow off the mark, but there is optimism about the season

Farmers have said this spring’s cooler temperatures and lack of rain have delayed the growth of their sweet corn. John Cromwell, a Virginia Beach sweet corn…

New savory organic plantain crisps coming to market

Barnana®, the plantain chips brand with its flagship salty snack, Organic Ridged Plantain Chips¹, introduces Organic Plantain Crisps. The Plantain Crisps are made with 100…

Nike

‘Happy Pineapple’ sneakers

Nike sneakers use leather made from pineapples

Recently, Nike brought back the Free Run Trail with an assist from a pineapple. The pineapple family of sneakers is growing by making use of the actual fruit. Nike’s new…

Tesla

Northern Fruit turns to Tesla ‘cybertrucks’ to curb transportation costs

East Wenatchee fruit grower Northern Fruit is going high-tech in its quest to stay competitive in the global fruit market. The grower, packer and exporter of apples and…

US research

Potato nutrients may reduce risk of hypertension

A new study published in Nutrients has looked at the effect of increased dietary potassium from a whole food source--baked/boiled potatoes and baked French…

Products like bananas and melons not yet back on track

Costa Rican exports showing signs of recovery

The total of Costa Rica’s goods exports totaled US$5.771 billion between January and last May, which is a growth of 23% compared to the same period last year.…

Panama Canal Authority

PCA increases allowed size limit for transiting vessels

The Panama Canal Authority has increased the waterway’s maximum allowable length for commercial and non-commercial vessels transiting the Neopanamax Locks. The PCA will now…

Signing of South Africa-Chinese lemon protocol will attract R325 million in new export revenue

The Citrus Growers’ Association of South Africa welcomes the recent signing of a revised citrus protocol between South Africa and China by Minister of…

South Africa drops its soft citrus export estimate

South Africa's soft citrus focus group last week again slightly dropped its soft citrus export estimate, by 300,000 cartons to a current estimate of 29.2 million 15kg…

First horticultural seeds from BASF's advanced center in Ethiopia hit the market

The first horticultural seeds produced at BASF's advanced production center in Ethiopia are already on the global market. Located in the Amhara region, the center meets the…

USDA

South Africa: Citrus Semi-annual

South African citrus estimated to continue strong growth in 2020/21

The production of South African citrus, mainly soft citrus, new orange varieties, lemons and limes is estimated to continue its strong growth in the 2020/21 Marketing Year…

Created in order to counter the 40% of claims that exporters receive

Dutch technology for reefer transport reduces fruit waste on a global scale

Otto de Groot, an expert Dutch fruit consultant, and the University of Wageningen developed Otflow . This technology is a patented floor cover that provides the optimal…

New all-time record for Andalusian agro-food exports in the first four months of 2021

The value of Andalusia's agro-food exports reached 4,766 million Euro in the first four months of 2021; the best all-time figure for a January-April period since comparable…

USDA

European Union: Citrus Semi-annual

EU citrus production projected to rebound 10.4 percent in MY 2020/21

In MY 2020/21, EU citrus production is projected to rebound 10.4 percent compared to previous season to 11.7 mln tons. Favorable weather conditions in the top EU…

CMA CGM adds reefer surcharge for Yantian as freight rates still high

French shipping company CMA CGM is putting a hefty surcharge on reefers for shipments to Yantian as congestion continues and container freight rates soar. The…

High price puts pressure on garlic export

Chinese garlic price remains high and shows no signs of coming down

Relevant data shows that, as a consequence of the appreciation of the Chinese yuan, the Chinese garlic export volume declined by 1.83% in the first quarter of…

Ships waiting up to 16 days to dock

Chinese port of Yantian has a backlog of 175,000 containers

The global shipping industry is concerned about the situation of the southern Chinese ports; including Yantian, one of the most active ports in the country,…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Colombia at £0.42: 47% drop from last week

This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale…

Brexit and Covid cause farms to be under-staffed

‘Food shortages inevitable in UK’

More items are likely to disappear from the food isles at UK supermarkets, as companies struggle to fill roles after lockdown. A post-Brexit recruitment crisis…

Future report 2021

Green trend growing – genuine flavours taking over imitations

Women are showing the way in the transition to a sustainable food system. This is one of the conclusions of this year’s future report Växa Tillsammans (“Grow Together”). In…

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