Serbian blueberry growers lament a bad season of late spring rain and cooler summer weather that led to quality issues for the open field production during the 2023 harvest. Sladjana Vuković, CEO of the Serbian exporting company Srbovoće: “Generally, this has been a bad year for Serbian
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Isi Sementi turns the spotlight on baby leaves with a dedicated field event. read more

Inferior quality oranges and mandarins and a kiwi shortage caused by crop issues in New Zealand. In these times when the climate significantly affects harvests, it can be difficult to get good product. It is a situation that suits Jaap van Dijk of the Dutch company Más Frutas to a tee. "I deal
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The future development of the Peruvian blueberry season will surely be a complex process, probably with some disagreements, but it will be very attractive and enriching for the entire global blueberry industry. read more

The record increase in prices is for persimmons with 30 per cent, but it is the whole autumn basket of fruit and vegetables that is soaring by an average of 20 per cent. read more

This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale markets in Birmingham and London. This publication is updated weekly. read more

Chilean cherry exporters are preparing for the new season. "Currently, China is the main sourcing market for Chilean export companies. That demand increases annually. It's become difficult for the European market to compete with the Chinese market's purchasing prices. But, as harvesting
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Italian consumers are ready to bet on IGP Verona radicchio, which is now in the height of its season. While until now the product was preferred in the northern regions, interest is now also growing in central and southern Italy, favoured by consistently high quality. read more

In the Netherlands, top fruit harvesting has been over for a while at Van Blijderveen Fruit. "Cultivation-wise, we still rely on the old-fashioned Dutch varieties, with Elstar, Jonagold, and Red Prince forming the main bulk," begins Kees van Blijderveen. He is satisfied with how the harvest
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Conference Pears catalyzed by Expo launch with sales accelerated read more

University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor Franz Niederholzer, an orchard systems expert involved with tree nuts and navel orangeworms, is finding “massive losses” in at least four counties due to a major infestation. “The picture is not yet totally clear, but NOW damage
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The continuous valorisation of producers and the territory is one of the fundamental pillars on which the Agribologn Consortium is based, giving voice to its members and celebrating them as true specialists of the land. They include brothers Davide and Fabrizio Magri,who lead the
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The national orange campaign is getting underway in Mercadona, the physical and online supermarket company which expects to sell more than 140,000 tonnes of this citrus fruit during the 2023/24 season, 10% more than in the previous season. During the season, they will have different
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"Orticoltura tecnica in campo" was conceived more than 25 years ago in Guidizzolo, a small town in northern Italy that is not far from Lake Garda. This was an idea coming from 3 founding companies: Ferrari Growtech, Idromeccanica Lucchini, and Gremizzi Nurseries. Their will was to open the doors
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"You can eat their skin, which means they're very easy to consume, they can be eaten anywhere, and at any time. They are also surprisingly sweet and everyone who tastes them is amazed: they almost taste like honey," stated Adrian Garcia Villar, an agronomist at the Asturian company Arándanos El
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New Zealand apple-planted area in the 2023/2024 market year is forecast to drop substantially from 11,000 ha to 9,200 ha. This development results from the impacts of cyclone Gabrielle, which caused large scale floodwaters, silt, debris, wind, and surface flooding in the primary apple growing
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Let's take a step back to exactly one year ago; for grape producers, one of the most disastrous seasons ever recorded was coming to an end, as the most experienced producers claimed. A real agony, that of 2022 (click here to read more), with the bunches that
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From vegetable sales to retail empire: Foodco's journey to building 20 outlets read more