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Solinftec's Solix Sprayer joins its Solix Scout robot

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In September FreshPlaza will be focussing on avocados, are you a grower, importer or exporter of these products? We would love to hear from you. You can send us some…

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A good year for Manitoba's potato crop

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Yuma leafy greens growers worried about additional water cuts

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Workers vow to keep fighting for bill

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Highland Ag MarketWatch hits the fresh produce market as a pro-competitive data and insights tool

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Germany is the world's second-largest buyer of tomatoes, after the US

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IFPA names 2022 Caplan Family Business Scholarship winners

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Lineage Logistics completes the acquisition of Spanish transport and cold-store operator Grupo Fuentes

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USDA

Sales volume of 2021-2022 US mushroom crop totaled 702 million pounds

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Massachusetts cranberry forecasts are fine

According to the 2022 U.S. cranberry crop forecast, this year’s Massachusetts cranberry crop is projected to be up 19% from the 2021 harvest. The Cranberry…

Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program looks at French fry, chipping and fresh markets

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Counterseasonality of South African oranges proven by European data

Freshfel Europe, the European Fresh Produce Association, has released graphs showing the origin of oranges available in the European Union throughout the year, the CEO of the…

Process underway of getting Australia's new strawberry varieties to market

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Registration and exhibition space open for World Avocado Congress 2023

New Zealand avocado export season well underway

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Robot strawberry picker kills fungus with UV technology

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Growers choose not to expand SunGold Kiwifruit production outside of New Zealand

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Joep Jongmans, Special Fruit:

"Mango market's not been too wild recently"

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Clarifruit AI-powered QC software reduces supplier waste by 20%

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Quality mismatches during sorting result in the rejection of hundreds of tons of fresh produce annually. It’s at this critical link in the supply chain that Clarifruit’s…

Níjar will have a plant for the production of fuel from greenhouses' plastic waste

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Deprez and Zwaaneveld will stay with Greenyard until 2026

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Catering to the health trend of gifts

Dole launches the National Style Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Box

Approaching Mid-Autumn Festival, the international fruit and vegetable brand Dole, aware of consumers' needs for gifts in important festivals, recently launched a variety of…

Chinese scientists cultivate a new fruit line

Here is the offspring of the longan and the lychee

"This is the world's first new hybrid of longan and lychee, which is groundbreaking." According to Liu Chengming, the head of the breeding team and a professor…

China ups currency defense as yuan nears 7 per dollar

The People’s Bank of China has set its daily reference rate for the yuan at 6.8906 per dollar. That’s after the bank set the yuan fixing at 249 pips higher…

Weekly freigth rate update

Reefer rates defy global spot trends on North Europe to Far East trades

While spot rates for ‘dry standard’ FEUs are declining on the world’s key global trading corridors, the rates for equivalent reefers are bucking the trend on…

First Spanish food fight fiesta after pandemic

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Thousands of attendees hurled some 130 tons of over-ripe tomatoes at each other yesterday in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol. It is known as the "Tomatina" festival and it…

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