Following March’s unsettled weather in California, what does this mean for the state’s cherry season? “The outlook is good--we’re optimistic the crop will be above average,” says Nick Lucich of Delta Packing Co, noting that the 10-year average is 6.2 million boxes of cherries. read more

A new strategic Spanish-Chinese phytosanitary agreement promoted by the president of the PSOE-Unidas Podemos coalition government, Pedro Sánchez, has made quite an impression. The meeting in Beijing of Presidents Sánchez and Xi Jinping, has so captured a lot of interest. read more

The Dutch onion market's earlier frenzy has subsided. So says Mike de Koster of WDK Onions, an onion grading and packing facility. "Prices fell and then stabilized, and far lower volumes are leaving. Fortunately, as a small family business, we're flexible and can scale up and down quickly.
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Turkish fruit and vegetable exports from the Western Mediterranean region increased by 26 percent between January 1 and April 11 from a year ago, coming in at $229 million. Shipments of fresh vegetables and fruits generated $248 million and $41 million in revenues, respectively, according to
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Dutch pears are fetching good prices. "Things are running very smoothly. The large sizes are selling for between €1.25 and 1.35. Those higher prices slow down sales somewhat, but I don't see prices dropping suddenly. The slightly shrunken Belgian supply benefits us," says Paul Peters of
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Aldi Nord is voluntarily foregoing margin and massively reducing the prices of fruit and vegetables. A clear sign that customers can rely on Aldi Nord in economically difficult times. After the drastic price cuts for coffee, butter, and cooking oil, the inventor of the discount store is thus
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Due to rising energy costs and a shortage of migrant labor at harvest times (due to Brexit), many British fruit and vegetable growers are in financial trouble. Kent apple farmer James Smith is one of them. "I don't really want to get rid of all of my fruit, but I simply cannot see a way of
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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 facilitate management. read more

Morocco, as one of the world’s leading exporters of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables, remains the focus of EastFruit. Over the past three years, the country has been annually updating the record for greenhouse cucumber exports. read more

With the arrival of spring, the Spanish stone fruit season has kicked off with the earliest harvests. This year, due to the weather conditions during the winter months, that start has been delayed compared to previous campaigns. read more

March was a dark month in the Netherlands, so the tomato and bell pepper supply got going particularly late. Cucumber and eggplant growers have been in production for some time. Commercial director Ton van Dalen of Oxin Growers takes stock. read more

Wage protests halt high-speed grocery deliveries at India's Zomato read more

Producers in Castilla y León will end planting potatoes at the end of April. There is no official data about the area planted but expectations are that it will remain as in the previous campaign when some 16,600 hectares were cultivated. read more

Messages calling for a boycott of the strawberry from Huelva have multiplied on social networks and instant messaging applications after the Plenary of the Parliament of Andalusia approved the processing of the bill promoted by the PP and supported by Vox to regularize some 600 family farms in
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Noticeable bottlenecks and a lack of desired calibers characterize the current onion import from Spain. "The caliber 80-100 for the wholesale markets and gastronomy as well as the 70-80 for the retail market are hardly available. The somewhat smaller 60-70 grade, on the other hand, is still
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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 traders' cooperative and managing director of the wholesale company Berger and Tolls, spoke to us about the
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The Palatinate - and thus also the "Gemüsegarten Pfalz" - is considered to be the largest contiguous cultivation area for open-air vegetables in Germany. Due to the favorable climate, flat fields with ideal soils for growing vegetables, and measures to bring the harvest forward, producers in
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According to a statement by First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut, Russia does not plan to limit the import of potatoes and vegetables. She added that work is being intensified in the country to create varieties that can be stored for a long time. read more

A major new research review has found that eating a daily handful of nuts is linked with improved blood lipid profiles. Examining 19 previously published scientific papers, the review showed a strong relationship between macadamia nut consumption and significant reductions in: Total cholesterol
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