Peaches

Exotics are benefiting from the current delays in most summer fruit. "The large Spanish peach and nectarine volumes are still some way off, and strawberries also remain quite pricey. Demand for passion fruit, for example, is, thus, much better than previous years," begins Ive Lambert of Starfruit. read more

The stone fruit harvest has started slowly in Extremadura with the first apricots and with very limited volumes. Soon the first nectarines, peaches and extra early flat peaches will also arrive. read more

For a long time, stone fruits such as apricots, nectarines and peaches were regarded as imported goods par excellence. But after the first, successful cultivation trials in southern Germany, the tropical fruits are now also growing and thriving in Lower Saxony. "We will harvest our first
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On the 5th of May, the European Commission approved the inclusion of “Melocotón de Cieza” from Spain in the register of Protected Geographical Indications (PGI). read more

Summer can come - and this year it brings juicy news: "We believe in Ondine because the quality of our flat nectarines and peaches is simply so high," emphasised Matteo Mazzoni of the Italian company of the same name when at last week's Macfrut the
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For stone fruit, the week began with substantial arrivals on the markets, especially from abroad. read more

ALDI plans to buy around 7,100 tonnes of stone fruit from national suppliers between May and September this year. The supermarket chain plans to increase its purchase of this produce by around 9% compared to last year, when the figure was 6,512 tonnes. The
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The Emilia-Romagna peach-growing industry has a new opportunity to relaunch itself and it is called Ondine. The international club project for flat white-fleshed peaches and nectarines (which in Italy involves 4 top partners: Agrintesa-Alegra, Greenyard, Mazzoni and Naturitalia), from this year finally
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"This year there were no significant failures regarding stone fruit, so we expect a relatively normal harvest. It is also a good year for the peels, as the fruits tend to be smaller. More rain is needed for the fruits to grow larger," the Llombart company informs us. "We have started the season
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Cooperatives producing stone fruit, mainly peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, flat peaches and cherries, have launched this Wednesday, 3 May, the campaign 'Buenas Hasta el Hueso' (Good to the Stone), with the aim of promoting their consumption and spreading the word about their benefits as a source of
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Texas is looking at approximately 25 percent of a full peach crop this season. “We’re not going to have a very strong crop of Texas peaches. Mostly our early, low-chill clingstones have good settings but once we get into the freestones, it’s pretty weak,” says Jamey Vogel of Vogel
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The Spanish peach and nectarine campaign has begun. Increasing quantities of Sicilian melons. Italian production of green beans is struggling to take off.Slowdown in demand for strawberries, but the trend is higher than last year.Price increases continue for
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After the arrival of the first peaches (click here to read the article), it is now the turn of the Spanish nectarines, which have already been available at the Rimini market since last week, at the stand of Fedagro Rimini president wholesaler Alessandro Marchese; read more

In the first 12 months of its existence, the Consortium for the Protection of Leonforte's PGI Peach, which represents about 92% of the cultivation of this fruit with Protected Geographical Indication, carried out actions that were mainly promotional. Contacts were made with local and national
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Five new products are arriving in Almaverde Bio's spring catalogue: five new organic drinks with no added sugar and a high fruit and vegetable content (70%). The new range produced by Fruttagel under the Almaverde Bio brand is designed to meet the growing demand of
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The Chilean stone fruit season has pretty much come to an end. “It has been a long season and the end is usually a bit of a battle,” says Cristian Ramila with Bengard Marketing. The season started off very stable as there typically is not much stone fruit on the market in December and
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The first Spanish stone fruits have already arrived in Italian markets: in the last few days we have found peaches (click here to read more) at very high prices; read more

Stone fruit producers in Emilia-Romagna have once again had to reckon with record-breaking frosts this year, which have wiped out a large part of their production. Temperatures plummeted to as low as -6° in the worst-hit areas, and photographs bear witness to what is
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Farmers in northern Greece are desperately seeking help abroad to get their fruit and other crops picked. It seems that local youth are not inclined to do the farm work and the once-reliable Albanian farmhands now prefer to go for jobs in northern EU countries. read more

Spanish peaches have already arrived on the market stalls in Brescia. The fruit has been on sale for a few days with respectable prices, although the low temperatures still do not encourage consumption; read more