Published: Jan 14, 2016

Low temperatures have affected squash production in some parts of Mexico, and shipments to the United States have suffered as a result. Supplies are about half what they normally are for this time of year, so prices have been high on all varieties.

Published: Jan 14, 2016

A Midland businessman has stepped in to save a globally important, milestone expedition that could be the last of its kind ever to be made by a British team.

Published: Jan 14, 2016

Persistent rain in Florida has hampered tomato production in the state and kept volumes down. With Mexican imports also light, tomato prices have been high through a time of year when demand is not particularly strong.

Published: Jan 14, 2016

The demand for citrus fruit, especially lemons, is usually very high during the winter months. Particularly citrus fruit from Spain are in high demand with German dealers. “The demand for lemons is currently quite high,” explains a German importer and who

Published: Jan 08, 2016

Israel’s ministry of finance has authorised the tariff free importation of a group of food products for the benefit of the local economy. The goal of this move is to overcome certain shortages which have been created in the local market over the previous

Published: Jan 08, 2016

Michoacan closed 2015 with a total 774,692 tonnes of avocados exported overseas, for which it received 1,500 million dollars, making this fruit the state's main agricultural export.

Published: Jan 08, 2016

Predictions are regularly made for the potato market, and sometimes these predictions end up being incorrect, "This season the share of contracts is larger than many had anticipated

Published: Jan 08, 2016

Mississippi's state agriculture production value dropped to $7.2 billion, a 4.9 percent decrease from 2014, according to the Mississippi State Agricultural Extension Service. Row crop farmers were hit the most, but there has been good news for sweet potat

Published: Jan 08, 2016

There was a time (not too far in the past) when the municipality of Entrena, in the region of La Rioja, was a real national power in the cultivation and marketing of leeks.

Published: Jan 08, 2016

While the pepper season started with a considerable delay for early peppers, these ended up overlapping with midseason pepper crops, which arrived earlier due to the mild temperatures. This caused the market to become flooded with peppers in November and

Published: Jan 07, 2016

Sweet onions meet the increasing demand for variety in the kitchen. But import isn’t easy. “A specialty really means that it isn’t sold a lot, but with sweet onions you need a critical turnover rate in all sizes.

Published: Jan 07, 2016

MULTIVAC shows versatile packaging solutions for salads, fruit and vegetables at the Fruit Logistica (Stand D-04, Hall 3.1) in Berlin from 2 to 5 February 2016. Packaging companies, exporters, importers and farmers as well as wholesalers as retailers can

Published: Jan 07, 2016

Good growing conditions and a strong export market for Meyer lemons have set New Zealand growers up for a strong season in 2016.

Published: Jan 07, 2016

Veiling Hoogstraten is mainly known as the strawberry auction in Belgium. And rightly so, with half of the revenue being raised by strawberries, but they aren’t the biggest product in terms of volume.

Published: Jan 06, 2016

According to the Cherry Committee of the Fruit Exporters Association of Chile (Asoex), the Chilean cherry export supply for the 2015-2016 season will decrease by 27.7% when compared to the previous season.

Published: Dec 25, 2015

According to theaustralian.com, tensions are running high between Australian and Italian tomato growers, with Australian farmers furious that subsidised Italian tinned tomatoes are pushing down the prices paid to Australian growers.

Published: Dec 25, 2015

Worldwide approximately 824 million metric tons of fresh fruit were produced in 2013. With 81 million metric tons of apples reaching a respectable share of 12 percent.

Published: Dec 25, 2015

The import from oversees dominated the trade: Brazil, Peru and South Africa were the main suppliers of Thompson Seedless, Crimson Seedless and Prime Seedless. Brazil supplied furthermore Arra 15 and Timco which sold for 17 Euros per 4.5 kg box.

Published: Dec 25, 2015

Spanish fruit and vegetable exports in October amounted to 804,644 tonnes, almost the same level as in the same month of 2014 (+0.1%), while their value increased by 11% to a total of 804.6 million Euro, according to the latest data supplied by the Direct

Published: Dec 25, 2015

Peruvian fresh avocado exports totalled 282.75 million dollars FOB between January and November 2015; a lower figure than that of the same period last year, when the value of shipments overseas reached 306.2 million dollars, reports the web portal AGRODAT