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GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW GRAPES

The global grape market is generally positive at the moment, but the industry continues to be plagued by many of the challenges we are all familiar with by now: high…

Mango pricing could stay strong for near future

Mango supplies in Canada are somewhat scarce, particularly on bigger sizing. “We can’t get enough right now from Mexico regardless of what the pricing has been like,” says Robert…

Sweepstakes kicked off July 1 and is available to residents throughout Lidl's 9 East Coast states

LIDL to give away Tesla electric vehicle to one lucky winner this summer

Lidl US, ranked a top 5 U.S. grocer in back-to-back editions of USA Today 10 Best Readers' Choice Awards, is partnering with Avocados from Peru to give away a Tesla to one…

US avocado grower sees plenty of opportunities for the industry in years ahead

There is optimism among producers that the avocado market will remain strong in the years ahead. Chris Sayer from Petty Ranch explained they are in the process…

Produce Pro Software acquired by Aptean

Aptean, a global provider of mission-critical enterprise software solutions, has acquired Produce Pro Software, a provider of enterprise technology solutions…

Growing strawberries from seed becoming increasingly popular

"Strawberries still offer plenty of growth opportunities," says Gé Bentvelsen, director of ABZ Seeds. This Dutch company has, for more than 25 years, focused on propagating…

Kwik Lok names new CFO

Kwik Lok Corporation headquartered in Yakima, Washington announces the addition of Howard Head to its leadership team. Head takes on the role of chief financial officer (CFO) and…

University of Maine study:

Some Maine blueberry fields are warming faster than others

According to a new University of Maine study, some blueberry fields are warming faster than others. This seems to depend on factors like location, season and…

Illegal Early Sweet grapes uprooted in Egypt

A recent ruling in Egyptian Courts sets major precedent, paving the road to dramatic change in the local industry’s IP atmosphere, as well as setting the stage for increased…

US growers got smaller share of price for fresh tomatoes in 2021

The growers’ share of the retail price of fresh, open-ground tomatoes has dropped from 43 percent in 2020 to 36 percent in 2021. While the US monthly average…

Special Automation

Robs4Crops

Robots to aid growers with repetitive daily tasks

To grow healthy grapes and apples, weeding and spraying tasks need to be repeated several times during the growth process. Depending on the year – and if some pest occurs –…

Gobal Focus Softfruit / Stonefruit

Smaller crop and stronger prices for British Columbia stone fruit

“Just like most of the Pacific Northwest growing region, we are trending behind last year by almost two weeks.” So says Laurel Van Dam of the Lake Country, B.C.-based BC Tree…

Retail

Dreamstime

Costco: June sales results

GS Foods Group announced its acquisition of Graves Foods

US: Fast grocery delivery service Gorillas opening Jersey City locationA quick-delivery grocer that launched in New York City amid the pandemic will be expanding across the…

Using pineapple leaf fibers in Polymer Composites

Natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites (NFRPCs) are considered an eco-friendly alternative to synthetic fiber-reinforced composite materials. These…

Invasive, exotic fruit fly has returned to Florida

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) has sounded the alarm about Bactrocera dorsalis in Pinellas County. To protect crops in the…

Carlo Porro, Agricola Famosa: “We chartered our own vessels just for our own production”

Brazilian melon grower and exporter charters own boats to Europe

The largest melon and watermelon grower and exporter from Brazil, Agricola Famosa, has just concluded a contract for a direct weekly service to Europe, with owners GreenSea,…

Rob Cullum - Pacific Produce

European window for Peruvian grapes getting smaller

The main Peruvian grape season ended in February and it is now in the low season. The 2021-22 season was strong with good volumes and good market conditions with the exception…

DaColheita packaging innovations presented at IFPA Meeting in Fortaleza

Participants at the IFPA – International Fresh Produce Association – meeting, held this week in Fortaleza (CE), for producers, distributors and retailers in…

This season’s Kashmir stone fruit crop seems abundant

This year, the Kashmir stone fruit crop seems abundant. As first in line for the harvest, these fruits pave the way for commercial activities of growers and…

Guangzhou Fruit Wholesale Market Report - Week 26

Price of imported oranges goes up, and price of Vietnamese dragon fruit comes down

This week in Guangzhou Fruit Wholesale Market the price of import oranges went up, some stone fruits from the USA just entered the market, and the price of Vietnamese dragon…

“They dump it on us like an ice bath, right in our peak weeks, with no lead time.”

“Draconian, vicious and unethical” EU protocol aims for maximum disruption to Southern African oranges

“How can you treat a trading partner of over a hundred years like this?” asks Charles Rossouw, owner of Roslé Citrus in Limpopo’s Senwes area, which he represents on the board…

Michael Dossor - The Result Group

“According to research the consumer will always choose board over plastic"

Throughout the fresh produce industry there is a drive to get rid of plastic. One of the options is to replace the plastic film covering with a cardboard sleeve. The challenge…

"If they weren't interested in our system they would not spend such a long time attending"

Growers and packers get a first hand look at Reemoon's new Fruscan 7 in Griffith

More than 22 fresh produce companies from Australia's south attended a presentation and site visit to see Reemoon's Fruscan S7 Pro four-lane grader in action this week. Clear Lake…

Kiwifruit giant anticipated the impact and boosted grower payments earlier this year

Zespri restates $42.3 million of cloud software investment

Kiwifruit co-op Zespri has quantified the impact of a change in accounting standards for software as a service (SaaS) investments in its annual report,…

The tomberry; the world's tiniest tomato

The tomberry was developed in the Netherlands by crossing a very small wild tomato with modern varieties using conventional breeding techniques. The…

Fred Douven, abbGrowers:

"Numerous countries are now releasing huge blueberry volumes"

At abbGrowers, the Serbian blueberry season has already ended. "It was a short, intense season," says Fred Douven. "And there was an immediate follow-up because all countries…

Christiaan Rijnhout, Roamler:

"This summer, the Fruit-Vegetable Monitor goes live; bananas are up next"

Dutch crowd-sourcing platform, Roamler, is introducing subscriptions for specific fruit and vegetable categories to the sector at lightning speed. First up was the Berry…

Demargro now completely moved into new building

“We wanted to create future-proof facilities for my sons"

On June 1, Demargro moved into its brand-new building in Ardooie, Belgium. The pandemic slightly delayed its construction, but the exporting company is now entirely moved in.…

Jacqueline Looije, CEO of Looije Águilas: "We expect to produce about 2 million kilos of cherry tomatoes per year in the new greenhouse"

"We'll open our new 7.3-hectare high-yield greenhouse in Águilas at the beginning of August"

The Dutch company Looije, which specializes in the production and marketing of cherry tomatoes, will open its new greenhouse in Águilas, Murcia, on August 3. Looije's new…

Ben Goodchild - Nationwide produce

British cherries competing with cheaper imports

The English cherry harvest is underway with the first early varieties picked in Hereford roughly three weeks ago, and soon to be in full swing. According to Ben Goodchild,…

Exclusively organic, fair trade bananas with hidden cost premium

Crisp now buys its own sustainable bananas

As of yesterday, the Dutch online supermarket Crisp only carries specific organic bananas. These are fair trade and have a hidden cost premium which addresses the banana…

European Commission

DG agri dashboard - Peaches and Nectarines

Average weighted price for peaches at €156 per 100 kgs in week 26

The average weighted price for peaches (in € per 100 kgs) stood at €156 in week 26 2022, an increase of €25 YoY. It was no less than €50 above the monthly 5-year average. In Greece,…

Cutting costs and emissions in reefer container use

Refrigerated or reefer containers have been around since the 1970s. By 2021, there were approximately 3.5m TEUs (20-foot equivalent unit) of reefer containers worldwide, and…

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