Published: Mar 14, 2016

A spike in December saw vegetable prices in Montreal soar, mostly due to drought in California; but crops in the Golden State are sprouting again and cauliflower prices which rose as high as $8, have fallen to around $2 or less.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

After Chinese Spring Festival, the vegetable trading in Shouguang Logistic Park gradually returned to its normal level. Contrary to last year's downward vegetable index, this year's vegetable index rose significantly, and this continued until last week, w

Published: Mar 14, 2016

Jonathan’s Sprouts has been a family-run business since 1976 starting in Robert and Barbara Sanderson's back yard. Now celebrating 40 years, Jonathan’s enjoys strong partnerships with retailers who have been loyal customers since the beginning.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

At the moment, the market for white mushrooms is stable, according to Tonny Hooijmans of OkeTrading from Velddriel in the Netherlands. The trader says the prospects for the coming weeks are good.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

“The current citrus import market is very competitive. There are large supplies of overseas oranges available, coming from the US, Egypt and Spain, and the current economy is not performing very well.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

There is an increasing interest in organic pomegranates in many countries and Iran wants to take advantage of this trend. Meanwhile, Greece is suffering the impact of low productivity and the country’s financial problems.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

According to a Russian importer based in St. Petersburg, the Russian crisis, in combination with the rainy and cold weather in Morocco, has caused a major drop this week in tomato prices.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

An ample supply of green onions is currently coming from abroad.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

Many Israeli carrot growers expanded their acreage this season after having much success with carrot sales the previous season. But that additional production has further depressed a sluggish carrot market in Europe.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

The citrus harvest is under way in some areas of South Africa. In the north around the Hoedspruit area, volumes of grapefruit will be down by as much as 2 million boxes due to hail last year and the prolonged drought.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

Nestle UK has opened the Tutbury coffee production factory following a £325m ($462m) investment.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

Whole Foods Market and Instacart have deepened their partnership and are launching in several new markets in the coming year, building on the 17 existing metros where consumers use Instacart’s delivery service to order from Whole Foods Market stores.

Published: Mar 14, 2016

Chinese online retailer Alibaba Group has entered into a $3bn five-year loan agreement in order to support its domestic and international acquisition.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

In 2015, Hong Kong was the largest pecan export market for the US. Hong Kong's market is fueled by strong local demand and transshipment opportunities to other countries in the region.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Bulgarian organic producers have attended the latest edition of the exhibition FoodExpo 2016, which was held in the peninsula of Jutland, Denmark, between 6 and 8 March.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

On Wednesday 9 March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that its estimate of the 2015-2016 Florida orange crop increased 3 percent to 71 million boxes. In comparison, during the 2014-2015 season, Florida produced 96.8 million boxes of oranges.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

The Citrus Growers Association of Peru (Procitrus) stated that Peruvian mandarin exports in 2015 amounted to 100,800 metric tons, which account for 88 percent of the country's total citrus shipments.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

The lime sector from the Valley of Apatzingan wants to ensure that, during this week, lime prices remain at the same level they had in the previous week, i.e. between 7 and 8 pesos per kilogram, said the president of the Union of Packers from the Valley o

Published: Mar 11, 2016

By working together in associations, fruit and vegetable producers have a much better chance to access foreign markets, according to Mr Kosta Petrov, president of the Bulgarian Peach Association

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Origin Fruit Direct traditionally receives a set programme of import pears in the spring. "We aren't a large player in the imported top fruit, but have loyal growers who send us a certain volume each year.