Published: Dec 09, 2015

Onion exporters and packers cannot complain right now, "There are a great deal of onions going out. Everyone has plenty of work and has collected a good deal of supply, the mood is good.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

While shippers insist that California grapes will continue to be available through Christmas, confidence in the product is declining. Retailer complaints range from poor color on red grapes to decay and condition issues on all varieties.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Despite greening concerns in areas of the state and smaller sizing due to weather, some Florida growers are calling this year’s crop “excellent” due to the crop’s exceptional cleanliness.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Russia says the list with boycotted products will not be expanded, for the time being. Although Putin did say they will keep the possibility to expand the sanction list open.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

The Christmas celebrations are around the corner, which means we will soon bid farewell to the current year. To this end, Spanish consumers will, once again, have a chance to enjoy the special New Year's Eve packaging from Grupo El Ciruelo.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

There have been Spanish lemons at importer Zeghers since the start of October. There was space on the market then, the supply from overseas had stopped. The Spanish lemon season started with high prices.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

stART commercial manager, Liezel Kriegler, was pleased with the growing conditions in the Western Cape, with harvest beginning the second week in October 2015 for early peaches, and almost no rain during the harvest period, to date.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Brazilian corn exports set a record high volume in November, and despite more rains in the forecast, December corn exports are likely to rise nearly 10 percent from the previous month.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Grain investors should brace for another year of weak prices, Commerzbank said, seeing little chance of corn returning above $4 a bushel, and cutting its forecast for soybean values to levels well below the futures curve.

Published: Dec 08, 2015

The Spanish Navelina orange season was going well in the first half of the season - both in quality and price - but the prospects for the second half of the season are even better.

Published: Dec 08, 2015

The tomato market was rather difficult last week, but that changed at the end of the week. "For the vine, everything is over one Euro again, and the specialties are doing better again too

Published: Dec 08, 2015

Citrus greening disease has taken a toll on grapefruit production in Florida, and, following with the trend of the past several years, volumes are down this season. As a result, prices have been strong, and it's likely the current market will remain stead

Published: Dec 08, 2015

The season for Chinese chestnuts is over and the harvest has come to an end. It has been a year with miscellaneous results for chestnut producers and exporter.

Published: Dec 08, 2015

Kiwifruit supplies from California have been slow-coming for the first part of the season, though shipments are expected to pick up in the coming weeks. Combined with increasing Italian imports, prices are likely to come down in the near future.

Published: Dec 08, 2015

Ecuador considers it to be possible to increase exports of broccoli to Russia after Moscow imposed a ban on food imports from Turkey, said Sputnik Novosti, a source of the Commercial Office of Ecuador in Russia.

Published: Dec 08, 2015

A few years ago farmers stopped growing leeks in the Aegean region as prices fell to as low as 3 Euro cents, now exports have started and the market has become enlivened again.

Published: Dec 08, 2015

Plant health and safety problems represent a serious threat to Mexican avocado exports, which generate some 1,500 million dollars, according to the president of the Association of Producers and Packers of Michoacan (APEAM), Antonio Villaseñor Zurita.

Published: Dec 08, 2015

Turkish Agricultural Chambers' Union (TZOB) Chairman Semsi Bayraktar, reported that the price difference between producers and retailers for parsley in November was 5.1 times, potatoes 4 times

Published: Dec 08, 2015

The Andalusian Interprofessional organisation for strawberries, Interfresa, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the EU

Published: Dec 08, 2015

Fruit exports drove a surge in New Zealand's wholesale trade sales in the quarter to the end of Septembers, the government statistics agency said Monday.