Apple

The harvest of Spanish Pink Lady apples was completed in November and the 2023/24 marketing season has already begun. "This year, despite the problems there have been with the water supply, the production on our farms in Girona will be normal, in line with that of previous years, and even
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The 2023 harvest in the Italian, French and Spanish orchards is complete. Despite a particularly warm start to autumn and some heavy rainfall, the Pink Lady® apples harvested are of optimum quality: beautiful colouring, high sugar content and good
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They are red in the skin and also in the flesh and have become famous on Tik Tok and Instagram. They are the Kissabel apples; read more

A 39-year-old company director, Ismail Elmagdoub, has been fined for the illegal removal of three historic apple trees in his Cotswold garden. Elmagdoub explained that he had the trees chopped down because his dog became sick after eating fallen apples, and the trees attracted wasps that caused
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"The labor factor weighs heavily on the production process," begins Peter Vonk, Technical Advisor at Looije Packing. This Dutch company specializes in packaging fruit and vegetable packaging. That burden, he says, explains the desire to automate packing apples into trays, a job previously done
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With Christmas and New Year's fast approaching, it is time for many employers to show appreciation for their staff's input this last year. It is, thus, hectic at Logofruit. This Flemish Fruitsnacks subsidiary was founded ten years ago to give its fruit delivery business partners a chance to
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The latest India Fresh Deciduous Fruit Annual report from the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA) forecasts apple imports will climb to 410,000 tonnes in the 2023/24 season, a 13.9 per cent increase on the revised USDA estimate for 2022/23.  read more

Superfresh Growers is back with another instalment of their Orchard Update series. In this episode, Horticulturist and Tree Talker, Dave Gleason, stands in a Yakima, WA, Gala apple orchard as a dusting of snow falls. Dave sheds light on what this season is like for farmers in the Pacific
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London’s New Covent Garden Market has been recognised at the annual Green Apple Environment Awards, which promotes environmental best practice around the world. The Green Apple, to be presented during a ceremony at the UK’s Houses of Parliament in November, recognises New Covent Garden
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Based on the preliminary data from the Customs Service of Moldova, in November the country exported only 7.8 thousand tons of fresh apples earning juts over US $4 million in revenue. This is one of the weakest results for November in the recent five years. Only in November 2022 and 2020, exports
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According to EastFruit, based on the preliminary data from the Customs Service of Moldova, in November the country exported only 7.8 thousand tons of fresh apples earning juts over US $4 million in revenue. This is one of the weakest results for November in the recent five years. Only in
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The apple crop in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, is showing positive signs of recovery following the adverse effects of Cyclone Gabrielle and other unfavorable weather conditions. Danielle Adsett, the market access manager for NZ Apples and Pears, mentioned that the surviving apple trees are blooming
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The EU produces a wide range of fruit, berries and read more

So-called club apples, varieties grown and sold under controlled licensing schemes, are a big part of the commercial strategy for the Val Venosta Association of Fruit and Vegetable Cooperatives (VIP), based in north-east Italy. read more

For weeks now, retailers have been stocking numerous Christmas products, from gingerbread and Christmas biscuits to chocolate Santas. In the run-up to St Nicholas' Day, retailers are also heavily promoting red apples, citrus fruits and nuts. After all, these are the products that
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In the Vinschgau Valley, the 2023 harvest year for organic apples closed at 48,000 tonnes, in line with initial forecasts, a 20% higher total than in 2022, when the quantity of organic apples did not exceed 40,000 tonnes; read more

Despite challenges faced by some of Brazil's main competitors in apple production, such as Chile, New Zealand, and South Africa, the expected increase in Brazilian fresh apple exports for the 2022/23 season did not materialize as anticipated. Industry experts consulted by Hortifruti Brasil
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From apple processing waste and non-standard fruit for the fresh market, a natural cosmetics brand was born that has made circularity its mission and strength. Its name is Naste Beauty and it is a Piedmontese company that uses precisely the peels, seeds
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Some Polish exporters have already sold their entire apple stock for the season. Mohamed Marawan, owner of Polish apple exporter Sarafruit, states he’s not fond of storing apples in cooling chambers: “At the beginning of the Polish apple season there was strong demand, after a while the
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The Pink Lady Europe association has estimated a volume of 225,000 tonnes of Pink Lady and PinKids quality apples for the 2023/24 campaign, a 20 per cent increase over last year’s total. read more