You will forgive me for the provocative use of one of the most popular proverbs in Italy, but the 'Hamletic' doubt arose during one of our surveys in the wholesale markets. In fact, as I was browsing through the producers' crates, I was struck by a small
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For the second year running, Yoga confirms itself as title sponsor of Radio Bruno Estate, Radio Bruno's summer music show with free admission, which this year will take place along the Via Emilia. There are four, in fact, and all in Emilia-Romagna, the evening stages planned for Yoga Radio Bruno
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The Emilia-Romagna Region is putting forward a proposal that will be discussed at the Monitoring Committee meeting on 19 June. These are immediately available resources that come from the 2014-2022 Rural Development Plan. It is 15 million euro for land and site improvements
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It is now mid-June, and in Romagna the harvesting of farmer's blueberries, a crop that is finding increasingly fertile areas in the territory, is beginning. Investing in this crop for some years now is the Spreta farm in Ravenna. We talked about the campaign that has just started with
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After registering big peaks in shipments at the beginning of the year, Peruvian table grape exports have cooled, although they have still remained above last year's levels, according to Agraria, Peru's agricultural news agency; read more

As of 1 July, engineer Luca Zaglio will be the new general manager of Melinda-La Trentina-Apot. This was announced by the presidents Ernesto Seppi (Consorzio Melinda), Rodolfo Brochetti (La Trentina) and Ennio Magnani (APOT) during the Melinda Board meeting,
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Although not a typical summer crop, potatoes are experiencing good sales trends this year, aided by a weather pattern that so far has not even been properly spring-like. Temperatures are still not as high as in other years and rainfall
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Summer fruit from Romagna is starting to be seen on the markets, flanked by southern products. We took a look at the main trends in stone fruit and melons with Giuseppe Frino, purchasing and sales manager for Siban srl, a company operating at the agri-food centre
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California has experienced favourable weather during the flowering season and growers are seeing good sizes during fruit set. Although production looks promising, the California Prune Board expects supplies to be
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Yesterday we had already reported (click here to read more) on the electricity blockade that affected the Catania (Maas) market over the last weekend; read more

The traditional Bank&Insurance Day, held in the meeting room of the Cedi in San Giorgio J. (TA) in the presence of financial partners, such as banks and insurance companies, the Supercentro Group management and Dr. M. Peschiulli, corporate strategic consultant, was an opportunity to
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In the Campania region, the peach and nectarine campaign has already started, and although the commercial trend is positive, this year producers have to deal with limited volumes due to bad weather. We took stock of the situation with Pietro Ciardiello, general manager of the Coop
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In the post-pandemic era, Italians are focusing on the 'quality' of their food spending and are now buying 10.5% more certified sustainable food, +7.5% more organic and zero-mile food while reducing convenience and packaged food (-5.2%) and 'junk food' (-4.4%).  read more

The Giant, a chain of the Selex Group, relies on the artificial intelligence of ShopFully to increase the readership of its flyer. To do this, it has chosen HI! (Hyperlocal Intelligence), the hyperlocal marketing platform based on ShopFully's artificial intelligence,
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His Instagram profile counts more than 97,000 followers, to whom he gives advice with extreme sincerity, recounting adventures and misadventures of what happens on his farm in Franciacorta. His name is Matteo Fiocco, but most people know him as Matt the Farmer, who started out as
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In 2022, the added value of the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector fell by 1.8% in real terms (-0.8% in volume), in contrast to the rest of the national economy; the volume of production (-1.5%) and employment (-2.1%) also fell. This is what emerges from the
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Silvio Berlusconi, after having profoundly characterised the life of our country for over sixty years, left us yesterday. You will read and hear all sorts of things over the next few days about his business life, although it is mainly the private and political spheres that will hold
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It had to happen sooner or later. ChatGpt, the artificial intelligence much talked about in our social feeds and TV lounges, has given birth to its first robot, and not surprisingly, it is an arm that can pick tomatoes, the crop ChatGpt considers the most
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In May, the fruit and vegetable department of the large-scale retail trade showed a clear drop in sales, mainly due to fruit. However, when analysing the progressive figures since January, the overall result is not so alarming, thanks also to a positive April. Certainly the production problems have
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