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Horticultural Soil Sales Representative - USA

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Update on Pacific Northwest and California seasons

Increased demand for packaged pears

U.S. pear growers anticipate good demand on the 2020 crop of fruit. “This year’s crop is similar to last year’s within a percent or two at a projected 16.6 million boxes,”…

Southeastern states preparing for Hurricane Sally

Louisiana sweet potato growers relieved post-Hurricane Laura

“We dodged a bullet.” So says the Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission’s René Simon of Hurricane Laura that struck the Southern Louisiana region two weeks ago. While at the time…

British Columbia tree fruit seeing increased demand

British Columbia is anticipating a season of strong demand for local apples. “We’re finding demand for local product as strong as it’s ever been. Customers very much want to…

Cultivar choice and antimicrobial treatment are tools to control Salmonella in dried apples

Dehydrated fruits have been the subject of manufacturer recalls due to contamination with Salmonella. Scientists at USDA ARS (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania) have…

Mastronardi Produce certifies fifth operation through Equitable Food Initiative

Mastronardi Produce (sold under the Sunset brand) has certified its fifth operation through the Equitable Food Initiative. This certification marks a worthy…

California avocado merchandise shop launched

The California Avocado Commission announced that it has launched a California avocado merchandise shop to sell California avocado-branded merchandise online. The shop is…

Oscar Serrano joins Crawford Packaging's Mexico team

Crawford Packaging announced the addition of Oscar Serrano, who will be joining the Crawford Mexico team as a Technical Services & Sales Representative for…

Index Fresh welcomes Susie Rea to the team

In a move to bolster their sales efforts, Susie Rea joins the Index Fresh team this month. Rea has a great reputation in the avocado industry and brings with…

Ontario’s apple harvest plentiful this year

Ontario consumers are in for a particularly flavorful apple harvest this year. The hot, sunny summer months not only provided great growing conditions, they’ve also helped…

Hortifrut inaugurates Chile's first floating photovoltaic plant

In 2019, Hortifrut began to develop with Solarity, a company specializing in the delivery of clean energy, a photovoltaic project to power its fields and facilities promoting…

Special PMA Fresh Summit

Jake Kamysz of Chestnut Hill Farms:

“We look forward to displaying our new organic and Fair-Trade bananas”

“We have built our brand over the past 20+ years on the back of our fresh pineapples. In the past at trade shows, it has always proven successful to have people come into our…

Global Focus Potatoes and Onions

Tjerk Nagel, Konaxx Onions:

"Dutch onion market is so-so"

The Dutch onion market isn't doing so well at the moment. That's according to Tjerk Nagel of Konaxx Onions. This is an onion sorting and packing company. "The market is very…

Retail

Walmart is teaming up with Zipline

First Amazon Fresh outside California

US: Kroger Dallas division associates ratify new contractThe Kroger Co. announced that associates working at 98 stores across Kroger's Dallas division ratified a new labor…

Packaging company commits to reducing environmental impact

Moving forward, Giro Pack, Inc. is focused on optimizing the plastic used in each package to reduce the possible environmental impact. Greater sustainability reduces waste and…

United Fresh Annual Washington Conference

Trump and Biden campaign representatives to discuss plans for produce industry

Representatives of the Trump and Biden Presidential Campaigns will tangle live at the United Fresh Annual Washington Conference, advocating their case for why their candidate…

CBP officers discover $6.6 million in hard narcotics at Hidalgo and Pharr International Bridges

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility intercepted a load of hard narcotics consisting of…

Canadian legend on the decline

Legendary McIntosh apple is set to disappear gradually

Sometimes, the McIntosh apple is referred to as Canada's national apple, but it is hardly ever planted in Quebec orchards to the point where it will likely…

'HLB solution could be available in three years'

University of California, Riverside (UCR) scientist Hailing Jin believes she has found a substance capable of controlling the deadly citrus greening disease…

Where do your french fries, chips and hash browns come from?

Where do all your favorite potato products originate? @LindsayIrrigate tweeted some numbers from the National Potato Council (@ThisSpudsForYou).

2020-21 California navel orange objective measurement report

Initial 2020-21 navel orange forecast set at 84 million cartons

According to the 2020-21 California navel orange objective measurement report, the initial 2020-21 navel orange forecast stands at 84 million cartons, down 5 percent from…

Maryia Kazlouskaya

Negative effects of COVID on Washington potato industry estimated at $1 billion

A study conducted by the IMPACT Center of the School of Economic Sciences seems to indicate that the COVID pandemic has negatively affected the Washington…

Blueberry season forecast 2020

Argentina has started its 2020 blueberry export season

Argentina has started its blueberry export season 2020. This year, the Latin American nation will continue being focused on preserving quality and ensuring the…

Chileans celebrate successful clementine season

The current season of clementines in Chile is being concluded with “quite a success”, according to Juan Enrique Ortúzar, president of the Chile Citrus Committee (ASOEX). The…

Senasa, USDA-Aphis, and Copexeu coordinate the start of Argentina's cherry export campaign to the US

Representatives of the National Agricultural Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa), the United States Animal and Plant Health Service (USDA-Aphis), and the…

Panamanian banana exports to Asia and the United States increase

Panamanian banana exports to Asia and the United States have increased in 2020 despite the global expansion of COVID-19. Last week, the Banapiña Panama SA…

Thongrob Banditnet

Kenyan avocado trade thrives despite pandemic

Despite these strange times, the avocado business in Kenya seems to be thriving. Kenya has recently topped Africa in global exports and at this point in time ranks…

Peter Turner – Variety Innovations B.V. & SA Kiwi Pollen

Interest from European companies in partnering with South African kiwi growers

South African kiwi arrivals are improving every year as a result not only of tweaking shipping protocols through, lots of little things done on the farm and in the packhouse,…

'Macfrut Digital has overcome the challenge'

A total of 32,212 participants in the three-day event, which was attended by 18,164 individual professionals, 49% of visitors were from abroad, 208,000 pages were viewed, and…

Kiwifruit vine decline hits the main production area in Italy

For eight years now, the kiwifruit vine decline has been progressively spreading, affecting the root system for unknown reasons. Now this disease has hit the main production…

Remaining stocks of Argentinian lemons limits demand for Turkish lemons

“We expect demand to be really high in October, November and December”

The Turkish lemon season is having a pretty rough time of it. Due to the Argentinian lemons still being on the market, demand for the Turkish Meyer lemons has not really…

Gocitrus project

By 2021, it will be possible to identify 25% of mandarin varieties without error

The differentiation between certain mandarins or oranges and other fruits from the same group is still a problem that hinders the development of the Spanish breeding industry,…

Export ban attempts to keep prices affordable for Indian consumers

Indian government puts a stop to export of onions

The Indian onion export has come to a halt. The Government has intervened after prices for onions increased significantly. As the onion is a very important commodity in the…

Citrus black spot: a threat for citrus production in Tunisia

Citrus products are economically important in Tunisia and constitute a significant part of agricultural exports. In March and April 2019, symptoms resembling citrus black spot…

More than 150 business leaders and investors have signed open letter to EU

Girteka Logistics urge EU heads of state to set higher 2030 emissions reduction targets

As the European Commission sits down to discuss proposals for a new 2030 emissions target in time for the State of the Union address on Wednesday Sept 16, more than 150…

JD Cooling and Worldwide Fruit launch softripe facility

JD Cooling Group, an independent supplier of temperature control systems, and Worldwide Fruit Ltd (WFL) have unveiled their new Softripe® avocado ripening facility in…

Video Agri Kiwi Expo attracts more exhibitors and visitors

The 7th edition of Agri Kiwi Expo was held in Cisterna di Latina on September 12th-13th. The event focused a lot on kiwifruit vine decline, featured 65 stands (+20%) and…

Concern among Ecuadorian banana growers about the restriction of mobility in the cantons

Ecuador's export sector is very concerned about the different mobility restrictions that various municipalities have announced they'll implement in their…

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Fruit and vegetables exported to 43 countries

Iran authorizes duty-free potato exports

The export of potatoes from Iran has been exempted from tax and customs duties by the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade. According to Mohammad Reza…

Taiwan opens its market to Peruvian blueberries

The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Minagri) has announced the opening of the Taiwanese market for Peruvian blueberries, following the agreement signed…

Frumini Sportgel, the latest from the Spanish company Diverfruit

Launch of new natural fruit concentrate for athletes

The Huelva-based company Diverfruit, devoted to the production and marketing of healthy products obtained from fruit, has presented its new fruit concentrate…

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