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Strong supplies of peppers to kick off 2022
Fresh-cut, canned, and IQF
Automation reduces head count and helps control costs for processing industry
Border vaccine mandate adds another complication to stretched supply chain
Florida strawberry growers relieved following weekend’s storm
Celebrating the 9th annual National Medjool Date Day
California avocado forecast shows increase over last season
Postharvest containers helped create value from otherwise wasted fruit
Georgia and Florida citrus avoid major freeze damage
Happy 98th birthday Andy D’Arrigo
Marcel van Rooijen, Trofi:
"Sky-high US prices mean Mexico stopped lime exports to Europe sooner"
Special Machinery and Packaging
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FreshPlaza's February Special is on Packaging & Machinery
Global Focus Organics
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FreshPlaza's February Global Focus is on organics
Retail
Dreamstime
AWG and IRI announced a strategic partnership to launch AWG Partner Gateway
Tops: Olympic Games for produce
AFBF supports Port of Oakland expansion
Tevel will start a pilot test in Spain, Italy, and the USA of the apple harvesting drone it plans to rent out
Smart drone for rent to harvest apples
Science behind the spice
Is that chile pepper hot or not?
USDA partnership
US: Partnership to ease port congestion and restore disrupted shipping services
Listeria contamination in facilities and on products prompt warnings from FDA
Argentina
Rio Negro's onion season begins with good price expectations
Report on US cucumber supply - University of Arizona
85% of US fresh cucumbers are imported
Shipments exceeded 5 billion dollars as of November 2021
Peruvian fruit and vegetable exports continue to grow
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Melon pack house improves post-harvest biosecurity through water treatment
Brazilian watermelon export earns US$7 million this season
Mexico becomes the world’s 7th largest supplier of agri-food products
Gert Smit, Ursula Quinn, Christine Gosling – Hendri Pieterse Boerdery
Keeping the ship sailing: grape producer looks back on a taxing season
The new citrus fruit The Alizza Fruit™ launches in the UK, Spain and Germany
"Never before has a citrus fruit combined such notable size, organoleptic quality and juice"
Gerry Li, Vision Fresh
"Extremely long transit times currently make importing new Chinese ginger very risky"
Seedless lemon farming thrives in Vietnam's Long An Province
Cambodia looks to export mangoes to Europe
Ukraine aims to export apples to India
APH Group celebrates 25 year anniversary
Garlic from Voghiera - good shelf life but slow sales
Tuindersbelang:
“Red and white cabbage market situation provided a nice starting point”
Stam-Schaap Agro:
“Red beets selling well”
Fossa Eugenia:
“Absent winter affects leek market”
Russia provoked a shortage of seed potatoes in the European Union
In2Food
Growth plans underway for national fruit and vegetable wholesaler
© Konstantin Aladyshev
The man who saved New Zealand's billion-dollar kiwifruit industry from disease
Massive Q4 gains posted by ONE, Evergreen, Cosco, OOCL, Matson and Maersk
Container shipping has greatest quarter ever — with more to come
Potato milk the alternative protein trend?
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