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Produce companies make Canada’s Best Managed Companies list

Oppy, Mastronardi Produce, Red Sun Farms, and Fresh Direct Produce have been included in the annual Canada’s Best Managed Companies list. Canada’s Best Managed Companies…

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High pricing slows organic lime demand

Demand is outstripping supplies of organic limes right now. Stefan Misse, President of Discovery Organics based in Vancouver, Canada says that larger sizes of…

Miyazaki Kanjyuku mangos selling at $168 for a box of three

Miyazaki Kanjyuku mangos flown in by air selling for $168 for a box of three were recently seen at FreshWay in Markham, a Chinese supermarket in Toronto. The store…

Good weather means ample radish supplies

Radish supplies nationally are strong right now. Todd Miedema, marketing director for Hudsonville, Michigan-based Miedema Produce, Inc. (which also has operations in Arizona…

Launching North America's first commercially grown greenhouse melon

Greenhouse company Pure Flavor has launched a greenhouse-grown melon, which will be branded under the Solara name. “After many years of research and development, we are…

Sharp drop in transit times and U.S. spot freight rates as demand plummets

The U.S. GDP fell 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022, which has concerned economists and analysts alike. Ripples have been felt across the Trans-Pacific corridor as…

New in at New Factor

Flavored pistachios

At Macfrut, New Factor officially presented the latest products created in collaboration with Wonderful. FreshPlaza talked about it with New Factor director Francesco Perego. FreshPlaza…

California desert water agencies win $100 million in U.S. funding for aging dams, canals

Southern California desert water districts with aging or failing infrastructure won big federal funding Monday, with more than $100 million allocated for major…

USDA PACA updates

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Fong Shing International Corp. satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $53,540 issued under the Perishable Agricultural…

“Turkey must increase their export regions and volumes for the export of garlic”

The Turkish garlic season has only just started, and the production of garlic in Turkey is increasing, says Tumen Tarim’s export manager Kerem Baltu.“The new season for…

Special Asia

“TempU08 Disposable USB temperature data logger with LCD Screen is better at recording temperature changes during transport”

The ability to accurately monitor temperature and humidity levels in storage or during transport is of the utmost importance to manufacturers, suppliers, importers, and…

Global Focus Melons/Kiwifruit

Carlos Cruzat, president of the Chilean Kiwi Committee: "This year can still be considered good, but you have to be careful"

"Large stocks of European kiwifruit have delayed the start of the southern hemisphere kiwifruit campaign in Europe"

The Chilean kiwifruit season started in week 8 with the harvest and export of the first fruits of this new season, in which the sector expects to ship between 150,000 and…

Retail

Dreamstime

First 99 Ranch Market to open in New York

ADUSA Supply Chain: Automated York DC now the largest in the network

US: Online grocery sales skidded in AprilInflation-cautious U.S. consumers retreated to their grocery-shopping corners in April, new monthly data from Brick Meets Click and…

Mana Farms

Peter Pane focuses on indoor farming

"Growing lettuce directly in the restaurant itself is an absolute megatrend"

Peter Pane likes it crunchy: The popular burger grill chain is the first German system gastronomer to roll out its indoor farming concept. After a test phase in Lübeck, the…

New Jersey cranberry yield highest since 2016

Cranberry growers produced over 588 thousand utilized barrels from 2,900 acres. The 203 barrel per acre yield led the Nation and was the highest since 2016…

Grant helps researchers fight peach bacterial diseases

Clemson University researchers are conducting research to improve sustainability of the Southeast’s peach production, focusing on bacterial canker and…

Fall Creek promotes two employees to leadership team

Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, an international blueberry breeding and nursery company has announced the promotions of two long-tenured employees to its executive leadership team,…

Mason County becomes largest chestnut planting site in U. S.

By 1946, most of the American chestnut trees in the United States were dying of a blight that would eventually wipe out billions of them. These giant trees…

Alico announces net income of $30.8 million

Alico, Inc. announces financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022 and the six months ended March 31, 2022, the highlights which are as…

Peruvian passion fruit exports increased by 10.1% in the first two months of 2022

In the first two months of the year, passion fruit exports have registered a year-on-year increase of 10.1% totaling 6,180,000 dollars, according to the…

China one of the main destinations for blueberries from the Piura region of Peru

Producers in Piura, with the support of the National Agricultural Health Service (Senasa), have started a 2022 export campaign in the region, which is expected…

Abenhardt GmbH & Co. KG

Carsten Abenhardt expanded product range to include organic zucchini

"Paper banding enables cost-efficient entry into new product group"

The Abenhardt family business from Datteln (North Rhine-Westphalia) has been considered one of the largest producers of carrots for several decades. In addition to…

Apulia, Italy

An Apulian entrepreneur who is desperately in search of workers for the cherry harvest

With the arrival of the harvesting season, farmers are looking for hundreds of seasonal workers. This is the case of Giacomo Giotta, a farmer from Conversano (Bari) with 20…

Only 15% of the usual volume is offered to the market

Prices for mushrooms in Ukraine have reached unprecedented levels

Prices for mushrooms in Ukraine have reached unprecedented levels. Now producers give a mushroom to the buyers at the prices of 75-80 UAH (2,3-2,5 euro) per kilogram, and at…

Petra Kaukua: “online platform for second class and surplus fruit and veg”

Danish 'Eat Grim' fruit and veg of all shapes and sizes

What comes in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours? Eat Grim fruit and vegetables from European farms directly to Danish doorsteps of course! The online start-up Eat Grim…

Mari Luz Iglesias, of Iberian Exotics: "We are already carrying out various exotic crop projects in Portugal, Spain and Italy"

"Our goal is to help producers find an economically profitable alternative and facilitate its marketing"

Tropical fruit has become very important in global trade, especially in Europe, where the demand has been growing rapidly in recent years. Imports have grown hand in hand with…

medFEL 2022: the meeting for a 100% committed sector

The medFEL event has drawn to a close, with very good results for this edition, gathering the whole Fruit and Vegetable sector. 3,151 professionals happy to be there!During…

Greenhouse tomatoes and bananas

Citronex shows facilities in two videos

Citronex is a producer of tomatoes and a distributor of bananas in Poland. The company has uploaded two videos explaining the way they work with both fruits, and what their…

Greece's fruit and vegetable exports take a hit due to Ukraine crisis

The crisis in Ukraine has made it difficult for the apple orchards of the Agricultural Cooperative of Naoussa (ACN) in northern Greece. "The fruits we grow here…

Production is expected to reach two and a half million kilos

Barbastro's first pink tomatoes will hit the markets in June

Barbastro is expected to start marketing its pink tomatoes in mid-June. According to the Brand Association, the region is expected to produce two million…

UK: Conference pear prices drop by 25% compared to last week

In this week's average wholesale market prices of home grown produce from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs the biggest increase for fruit was the price of outdoor…

Photo report of celebration with business relations

Video Dutch potato wholesaler turns 100

This weekend's weather was perfect for Dutch potato wholesaler, Landjuweel's 100th-anniversary celebration. Although a little off the beaten track, many people from the potato…

New guarana tree fungus may affect other plants of economic importance

The fungus was observed in guarana tree clones, indicating that the new pathogen needs to be monitored so that it does not become a problem for the crop in the future.…

Hà Nội supports farmers in digitalisation of production and sales

The application of digital technology to the production and consumption of products will help Hà Nội's farmers increase added value of agricultural products.…

Inflation in Pakistan continues to rise as the price of lemons has surpassed that of meat

Inflation in Pakistan continues to rise as the price of lemons has surpassed that of meat. The price hike was reported by ARY News on Sunday. As per the…

Maersk’s Soren Skou and Matson’s Matt Cox

China lockdowns are not causing shipping chaos

It was predicted that China's lockdowns would cause container shipping havoc. Six weeks into the Shanghai lockdowns, it still hasn’t happened. Two liner CEOs — Maersk’s Soren…

China has freed up the coastal piggyback system for shipping of foreign trade containers between ports within China

China has freed up the coastal piggyback system for shipping of foreign trade containers between ports within China, enabling foreign logistics giants such as…

Moroccan fresh produce aims to set new standards in exports

Fresh produce from Morocco benefits from the country’s strategic geographical position, as well as multiple competitive advantages, and many of the country's…

Potato production affected due to unseasonal rains and heat wave in UP, Bengal

Potato production in India in the current crop year is estimated to be 53.60 mt, down from 56.17 mt last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture's first…

5000 Zambian farmers benefit from climate smart agriculture

The climate smart agriculture project in Zambia has begun to bear fruit with close to 5000 farmers in Mufumbwe district benefiting from tomatoes, green vegetables, egg plants,…

Average week prices of bananas

Colombia offering bananas for the lowest price this 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…

Fresh Del Monte’s Network Shipping Ltd. offers cargo solutions to wider audience amid ongoing supply chain issues

Network Shipping (NWS), Fresh Del Monte’s ocean logistics arm, continues to drive growth for Fresh Del Monte’s third-party services by further enhancing its…

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