The Sicilian organic stone fruit season has started
The stone fruit campaign has started in Sicily, in the area between Ragusa and Catania. The fruit in greenhouses is practically ready to be harvested, and operations started on week 15 with

‘New Border Target Operating Model is a half-baked plan'
The UK government has unveiled its new Border Target Operating Model (TOM) as a simplified approach to border inspections that it claims will save companies £400 million per year. After three

Agrícola Villena starts operating its plant in La Barca de la Florida
The investment in the new Agrícola Villena factory has been destined to completely renovate this branch of the company with which, together with its plant in Villena (Alicante), the company

Sicily, 14 million call for tenders for water infrastructures
Irrigation interventions, Sicily prepares for the turning point. Important opportunities for the island's agriculture to improve irrigation systems. The Region will support, through the call for

Oslo: Again cocaine found in banana shipment
For the second time in less than three weeks, Oslo police have seized as much as 900 kilos of cocaine found in boxes of bananas believed to have originated from Ecuador. The police think it was

QS: Start random audits on harvest hygiene
QS will be carrying out random audits at producer farms in the coming weeks with a focus on "operational hygiene management during the harvest of fresh fruit and vegetables". Compared to the

#Repartofresh. Simone Cicognola: 'What's new in Spazio Conad (Pac 2000A)'.
A restyling operation is modernising the Spazio Conad points of sale which, while maintaining the characteristics of the format, will have some new elements. Fruit and vegetables is a strategic

Canadian greenhouse grower opens new distribution center
Nature Fresh Farms® is expanding its operations, adding 60,000 square feet to its footprint in Delta, Ohio, with the opening of a new distribution center. The newly built distribution center

Highest-paid strawberry of all time wins over operators in Italy and abroad
"When I made all my customers sell my fruit for twice the price of other strawberries, everyone called me crazy. But now the situation is out of control for our strawberries. The demand is

Nick: "Better operating results let many farms breathe a sigh of relief".
The average income of farms developed significantly positively in the 2021/22 marketing year. The partly strong profit increase was recorded by enterprises of almost all farm types - from arable

Seasonal dilemma: insufficient numbers and slow timetable
The click day applications on 27 March had already confirmed the fears of the sector's operators: the quotas for the flow decree are, once again, insufficient. According to the expected numbers,

SNFL has unified its partnerships to integrate with IFG
Special NewFruit Licensing (SNFL), the company developing new grape varieties of the Murcian titan AM Fresh, has unified the two companies with which it operated to streamline processes and

"People will continue to talk about us for a long time, even if the city of Düsseldorf no longer operates a wholesale market"
For several years now, what will happen to the Düsseldorf wholesale market after 2024 has been up for debate. Roland Tolls (on the right in the picture), a board member of the Düsseldorf

Larger and stronger co-operatives to export
This was emphasised by the Secretary General for Agriculture and Food, Fernando Miranda, at the opening of the 6th Congress of Andalusian Agri-Food Cooperatives, where he explained that the Map

Lamb Weston Holdings announces appointment of Mike Smith as Chief Operating Officer
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. announced the appointment of Mike Smith as the company’s Chief Operating Officer, effective May 29, 2023. Smith will continue to report to Tom Werner, President and

Number of port strikes around the world has been growing over the past year
The number of port strikes around the world has been growing over the past year, causing headaches for many parties. The number of protests and strikes affecting port operations quadrupled last