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Ecuador’s yellow dragon fruit season to start in October

The yellow dragon fruit season out of Ecuador is set to start mid-to-late October and will last between four to six weeks. Directly following this season will be the start of…

Bad air quality from California fires causes labor challenges

It is fire season in California, and this season, though it has only just begun, has been a heavy one. As of September 21st, 2020, over 19,000 frontline firefighters are…

North American growers adjusting apple volume estimates

While it’s still early in the fall 2020 crop, apple supplies look to be very similar, if not slightly lower in volume, than 2019’s levels. EAST COAST Pennsylvania saw spring…

Apeel and Houweling’s plastic-free cucumbers are at select Walmart locations

Houweling’s Group has officially launched its plastic-free CaliforniaGrown English Cucumbers in partnership with Apeel. While English Cucumbers traditionally have required…

Giro Pack Inc.

New Dual Handle lightweight welded bag introduced

Giro Pack, Inc. has introduced their lightest package in their line-up of welded bags in the US and Canadian markets. This is among many new innovations offered by Giro aiming…

Organic green & gold kiwi and organic Chilean blueberries

Awe Sum Organics announces winter season organic fruits

Awe Sum Organics' organic green and gold kiwifruit aresourced from top growers in both the Northern and SouthernHemispheres to ensure a year-round supply. "One of nature's…

USDA cites PK Produce Inc. in Ohio for PACA violations

As a part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S.…

Effective October 1st, 2020

GoldenSun Insights announces agreement to sell company

Don Goodwin owner of GoldenSun Insights announced the signing of an agreement to sell the company to Randy Riley and Jason Fuller effective October 1, 2020. “I…

SIMBA Lite traceability system for smaller growers, packers and shippers

Dynamic Systems, Inc., a software developer specializing in Traceability and Inventory Systems for Fresh Food, has launched a new low cost version of their…

Monterey Mushrooms awards 76 academic scholarships to employees’ children

Monterey Mushrooms presented 76 children of its employees with $182,000 in scholarship awards for the 2020-21 academic year. Some $169,000 was issued to recipients in the…

Special PMA Fresh Summit

Welcome to Flavorville: Sunset’s virtual take on PMA Fresh Summit

Houston, Orlando, New Orleans, Anaheim, and Atlanta. No matter what city the PMA Fresh Summit is held in, Mastronardi Produce is always known for bringing…

Global Focus Potatoes and Onions

High speed packing line for WDK Onions

Family business WDK Onions is sorting and packing onions since 1933. The cooperation with Eqraft goes back for decades. This summer, Mike de Koster, grandson of the founder,…

Retail

Walmart is reaffirming its commitment to battle climate change

Mercato has been selected by the City of New York

US: How Wegmans keeps winningRochester, New York-based Wegmans Food Markets, which operates 104 stores and is led by the family of Colleen, Danny and Nicole Wegman, has…

US: Blueberry imports from Latin America increase to meet year-round demand

U.S. demand for fresh blueberries reached an all-time high in 2019, and to meet this increased demand, both domestic and global production of fresh blueberries have trended…

United Potato Growers of Canada

Canadian potato crops in varying stages of growth and/or harvest

As the first day of fall arrives, the potato crop in the country is in varying stages of growth and/or harvest. The production outlook is mixed after parts of Eastern…

USDA potatoes 2019 summary

US 2019 potato production down 2 percent for comparable states

All potato production in 2019 totaled 424 million cwt, down 2 percent from the 2018 crop for comparable States. Harvested area, at 937,300 acres, was down 1…

Trade issues for fresh Florida citrus

Dan Richey, president of Riverfront Packing Company, gave an update on trade issues impacting fresh Florida citrus during the recent virtual citrus…

Rockit Global Limited appoints new CEO

Rockit Global Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark O’Donnell as its new Chief Executive Officer. In this role Mark will be responsible for…

New packaging developed for blueberries

When innovation and sustainability come together, interesting proposals emerge on the market. Just like the Nature Punnet: Thenew packaging developed by SanLucar, the brand…

Norwegian Bama introduces plastic free avocado packaging

Previously, the plastic tray of the avocado packaging had already been replaced by cardboard, but now that the plastic around it is also being replaced, the newest solution is…

Sven Stahmer, Sales & Procurement Manager KÖLLA Overseas: "It was a special season"

"Citrus fruits become more popular every year, even in summer"

The season for citrus from overseas will come to an end in the coming weeks - the last shipments left South Africa for Europe the week before last (September 12) and will be…

Joep Jongmans, Special Fruit

"Many more Brazilian mangoes on the Belgian market for three weeks now"

"This year's mango season is progressing differently than we're used to. Noticeably fewer mangos came from, particularly, Senegal. It's a short season with low volumes and…

USDA Worlds Markets and Trade

Reduced 2020/2021 peach and nectarine production globally, due to bad weather

Global peach and nectarine production is expected to decline by 1,1 million tons to 21 million tons. Adverse weather conditions are affecting production in China and the…

Idromeccanica Lucchini

Choosing the best greenhouse film

Choosing the right cover is very important when talking about greenhouses. The most suitable films and technologies must be selected according to specific crop needs or…

Eletta F1 cherry tomatoes - flavorful and early ripening

Eletta F1 cherry tomatoes by TSI Italia, a branch of Top Seeds International, were presented to the Italian public in 2018 with the "Bentornato sapore" (Welcome back flavor)…

Study from Bayreuth

"Even cooked carrots can trigger allergic reactions"

The consumption of raw carrots triggers allergic reactions in many people. Contrary to popular belief, cooked carrots can also have this effect. This was recently discovered…

Ridder introduces HortOS

A new control platform for large-scale horticultural companies is born

The world is changing and so is horticulture. Ridder has presented HortOS, a new ecosystem to help horticultural entrepreneurs follow important trends and developments in the…

Carrefour has already removed more than 1,100 tons of plastic from its own brand

Carrefour, which has the goal of having 100% recyclable, reusable, or compostable packaging by 2025, has managed to remove more than 1,100 tons of plastic from…

Malaga, España

Aquaponics, a sustainable fish and plant culture

La Noria social innovation center has promoted the first aquaponics system in the province of Malaga, a technique that combines aquaculture and hydroponics for…

USDA predictions: Turkey largest cherry producer in 2020/21

World cherry production is expected to increase by 60,000 tonnes to 3.9 million tonnes this year, as the increase in Turkey, Chile and China more than offset losses in the…

Ladbible

UK: Vegetable growing pensioner amasses 88,000 Twitter followers

Gerald Statford is a retired granddad with a passion for growing huge veg, but also a social media influencer, of sorts. The 71-year-old from Milton-under-Wychwood in the UK…

Mango cultivar resistance against anthracnose

Scientists at University of Catania (Italy) with Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil) have conducted a wide-ranging survey in one of the most important mango cultivating…

Total Exotics targets 25% reduction in carbon footprint of its Bleiswijk CDC

Total Exotics, a marketer of premium Avocados and Mangoes to the European retail sector, has taken a significant step forward in reducing still further the environmental…

Dole harnesses the sun to move closer to their carbon neutral promise

Dole Asia Holdings has made a significant step forward to achieving Net Zero Carbon with the signing of a contract with Symbior Solar to expand its renewable energy sourcing…

Margo555

So many different potato varieties grown in India

The potato, which originated in South America, is now grown worldwide. It belongs to the Solanaceae family. The potato has a special value as food. It is also…

Drop in banana exports worries government

Dept of Agriculture worried about Philippines losing banana export market share

Bananas are among the biggest agricultural export commodities of the Philippines. Agriculture Secretary William Dar is apparently starting to worry about a fact…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Colombia at £0.62: down 10% compared to 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…

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