Ancillary services for producing and trading produce are numerous and often highly specialized. Amongst these, the recycling of collapsible plastic packaging and pallets is essential for the entire fruit and vegetable supply chain. read more

UK: Britain's Sainsbury's to recruit 22,000 workers for Christmas season read more

In the Spanish Region of Valencia, lemon growing is carried out mainly in Alicante. In 2022, the province, especially the Vega Baja, accounted for almost 99% of both the Valencian lemon production and the acreage, with the producers relying on the PGI Cítricos Valencianos as a quality seal,
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Express transport company DPD Portugal has launched a new home delivery service for fresh food and drinks across the mainland of the country. The temperature-controlled (between 0° and 4°C) DPD Fresh delivery service is designed to support both producers and distributors to market their fresh
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Piper Alderman has teamed up with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP (BCLP) in advising Driscoll’s Inc. on the $2.5 billion acquisition of ASX-listed Costa Group Holdings Limited by a consortium. The deal was announced on 22 September; it is set to be implemented through a court-approved scheme
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The Drought Management Commission of the Tinto, Odiel, Piedras, and Chanza Hydrographic Demarcation has just announced a cut of up to 50% of the water available for irrigation in the province, coinciding with the start of the 2023/24 berry campaign. The measure will take effect on November 15. read more

Supply and demand: a simple economic term, but one that will be central to the grape season this year. Climate impacts on global markets have been well reported on, but as it relates to grapes it is having a big impact. read more

At the upcoming Global Produce & Floral Show in Anaheim October 20th-21st, CMI will introduce a new look for Kanzi apples. Danelle Huber, CMI’s Senior Marketing Manager, says that besides its primary booth (inside at #869) CMI’s Activation Station (outside at #7000) spotlights the
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Hungary’s 2023 walnut season is off to a good start with an average season expected says Máté Tömösváry, from the co-operative Balaton-ker-Tész: “We have just started the walnuts harvesting and expect an average season with apples and some pears being harvested too.” read more

Kees de Kat will be the new managing director at cooperative Growers United. He succeeds Jan Opschoor, who last week announced his departure at the end of this year. Kees has broad experience, both on the retail side and on the producer side. For the past 12.5 years, he has been Managing
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Last year, representatives of the German Parliament's Agricultural Committee visited Almeria's agricultural sector. Since the experience was a success, COEXPHAL has helped organize a new visit, in which the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Spain, María Margarete, the Minister of
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Sunforest is a South Korean provider of innovative portable NIR Spectrometers that measure fruit attributes in a non-destructive manner. read more

On Tuesday, Oct. 10, there was a verdict declaring bankruptcy of JamboFresh, located at Klappolder 191 in Bleiswijk. Mr. J. van Tilborgh was appointed as trustee. JamboFresh was active in the import of exotic fruits, including avocados. read more

ASAJA Alicante reports that the adverse weather conditions recorded last month have caused "a very significant decline in the lemon production." Therefore, the production of the 2023/2024 campaign, previously estimated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at 1,167,444 tons, will be
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For two weeks now, Brussels sprouts have been diligently harvested again on the Detter farm in Absdorf, Lower Austria. "After the strong crop year of 2022, this year we have the special situation that there was about 22 mm of precipitation after planting, which in turn has meant that, unlike
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Tomeco and Coöperatie Hoogstraten have launched a new brand: Thomasso. The tomatoes marketed under the brand have been grown by Tomeco's growers for Coöperatie Hoogstraten for some time, but with this launch, the company wants to highlight the variety's characteristics. "It is a refined,
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Since this week, the new clementine season has started at Euro Gijbels' Catalan site in Mont-Roig. Harvesting the first Orogros clementines kicks off a new season, in which, according to John Gijbels, there is a lot of early demand for the Spanish citrus. "Although South Africa is still on the
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The South African deciduous fruit industry is reeling under the impact of the recent floods in key production areas, particularly in Elgin, Grabouw, Vyeboom and Villiersdorp (EGVV), parts of the Klein Karoo, and Franschhoek. read more

"Our export destinations are currently not very busy," says Rene Tiggelman of the Dutch company Javala. "For example, customers in Africa are reserved because of the high prices. They order, but less. For now, clients in the Far East are mainly buying their onions from China. We've shipped some
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In 2022, the Michigan apple crop saw some 32 million bushels of fruit and the 2023 crop looks to be very similar in numbers. “It’s a bountiful crop and sizing appears to be what markets need – with a good mix of consumer package sizes and bulk sizes,” says Trish Taylor, marketing manager
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