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Friday, December 06, 2013

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We apologize for improperly titling the Loss of Profit for Village Super Market as Village Farms and the improper use of their logo and company in the title.

Canada: Ontario apple crop returns to normal
Photo credit: Ontario Apple GrowersAfter last year's disappointing apple season in Ontario, growers in the Canadian province are reporting volumes of fruit more in line with normal production.“We don't have the numbers in yet, but it looks like this year's crop might be a little bigger than 2011's crop,”.....

extended shelf life, compostable tray
Gourmet Trading launches new asparagus packaging
Gourmet Trading Company is debuting its new tray and flow- wrapped asparagus product. The packaging features a new modern, yet natural, look that should garner a positive response from consumers. The new pack is state-of-the-art, extending shelf life--ensuring the product is at its freshest-- all while.....

Taiwanese researchers unveil quick-maturing purple cauliflower
Taiwan unveiled a new strain of purple cauliflower on Tuesday, which researchers said can be harvested 10-20 days earlier than ordinary cauliflower.The vegetable, dubbed Tai Nong No.1, which needs only 55-65 days to mature, is the result of 33 years of effort, said Lo Hui-ling, an assistant researcher at the.....

South Africa: Good 2014 pomegranate season on the cards
The 2013 packing season has been an excellent one for South African pomegranate growers. Sapex Exports received pomegranates from growers all over South Africa and exports were made to over 20 different countries. According to Kobus Louw from Sapex, prices were better than the 2012 season, sustained by a.....

Calif. citrus growers continue to toil to fight freeze
Citrus farmers have already spent $6.7 million over the first two nights of the freeze to try to warm up the fields, the growers' association said. Of key concern is the mandarin crop, because the tiny fruit is thinner skinned than other oranges, making it more susceptible to cold.Avocado growers in.....

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Inflatable 'scary dancers' chase birds from fruit
Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards.The inflatables, called "scary dancers" or "air dancers," are upward of 15 feet tall, move randomly with arms.....

Chocolate mint, strawberry mint, berries and cream ....
UK herb grower keeps up with the trends
David Nieburg initially had no plans to start growing herbs under glass or plastic, he had a full time job in horticulture. However after spotting the growing popularity of herbs with exposure via TV chefs and gardening shows, David and his wife Jo decided to grow a few herbs on an acre of land to finance.....

Soldive begins Senegalese campaign
France-based grower and shipper of melons, Soldive, has begun sourcing their traditional Charentais melons from Senegal in time for the Christmas season.“The campaign will end at the end of December” said Soldive's Audrey Brizard. “The traditional Charentais melon offers flavors unmatched and there is a.....

Canada: Ontario bell pepper yields down
Less overall day light this season made for lower yields for Ontario's bell pepper growers, though the reduction in heat made for less problems due to rot.“Yields are down about 10 percent,” said Nature Fresh Farms' President and Founder, Peter Quiring. “That was because we had less light this year, but.....

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Cardinal Fresh to use Evlon® film manufactured by Bi-Ax
BI-AX International Inc is pleased to announce a working relationship has been agreed to with Cardinal Fresh of Kingsville Ontario. BI-AX is the manufacturer of the proprietary film “Evlon® Taste Saver”Evlon® Taste Saver is produced from sustainable materials and is certified compostable, it has been tested.....

North America

"King Rustic" potato debuts at Walmart, just in time for holidays
While the russet potato has been a fixture on kitchen tables across America for as long as . . . well, we've had kitchen tables . . . a new variety of russet is waking up taste buds just in time for the holidays with a smoother, moister and richer taste.That's good news for potato lovers everywhere,.....

US (MS): Off-year for pecan growers
This year looks like an off season for pecan growers and sellers across the area. One man who knows about the business is T.A. Duke of Duke Pecan Company in West Point. The pecan-cracking machines are at full throttle in West Point at the Duke Pecan Company, to be made into some of the company's.....

mobile warehouse management solution RedLine Cooler CT™
Redline solutions, Compu-Tech announce partnership
RedLine Solutions Inc. and Compu-Tech Inc. announced yesterday the first product introduction resulting from their business relationship. Called RedLine Cooler CT™, the product leverages RedLine’s expertise in mobile WMS (warehouse management solutions) and provides immediate inventory updates to.....

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Village Super Market reports losses in Q1 2014
Village Super Market reported its results of operations for the first quarter ended October 26, 2013.Net loss was $6,831,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 compared to net income of $5,855,000 in the first quarter of the prior year. The first quarter of fiscal 2014 includes a $10,052,000 charge to.....

U.S. ag export development council names chair
The U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council (USAEDC) has named a new Chair at their annual workshop in November. United States Potato Board’s (USPB) John Toaspern, International Marketing Vice President, has been a member of the Executive Committee and an officer of USAEDC for the past six year. He.....

Limoneira starting to grow pink lemons with striped skin, pale pink flesh
Limoneira Co., the Santa Paula, Calif.-based grower known internationally for its lemons and avocados, has taken up growing a funky fruit with contrasting striped skin and pale pink flesh.The agribusiness is capitalizing on the growing interest in speciality citrus and has begun introducing its pink lemons.....

Brokerage firm first to clear
Port Everglades, Florida receives first cold treated grapes from Peru
A container of grapes from Peru arrived, passed protocol and was cleared for entry into Port Everglades on the evening of Friday November 29, becoming the first cold treated container of imported fresh produce to arrive into the South Florida port. The arrival also makes Advance Customs Brokers &.....

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Central America

Honduras to sell over U.S. $400 million in bananas
According to a preliminary report issued by the Central Bank of Honduras (BCH), banana exports will generate more than $400 million by the end of this year, more than 62.9 percent of the export sales of agricultural commodities.Up until this year's third quarter, the state had revenues of 534.8 million.....

South America

Rosario
Argentina: Strawberries harvest injects 240 million pesos into the region
The strawberry harvest, which began in August and runs until early December, injected about 240 million pesos (39 million dollars) into the economy of the region that links Rosario with Santa Fe, the main spot where this fruit is grown.This sum is the result of taking the average yield of an acre of.....

Asia

Georgia’ citrus harvest doubled
Georgia has already exported more than 10,300 tons of tangerines with the main destinations being Ukraine, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. According to the Adjara Autonomous Government, they are working round the clock to realize the harvest.Roin Gogadze, assistant to the Minister of Agriculture of Adjara.....

Indonesia to export bananas to Singapore in 2014
Indonesia's state-owned plantation company PTPN VIII will export bananas to Singapore from 2014, said Minister of State-Owned Enterprises Dahlan Iskan on Friday.Dahlan said banana export to Singapore presents a major milestone for Indonesian tropical fruits to enter international markets, Indonesian news.....

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Armenia’s tomato output drops by 5,000 metric tons this year
Tomato output in Armenia this year has contracted by approximately 5000 tons from 2012 to 260,000 tons, a deputy minister of agriculture, Garnik Petrosyan, told a news conference today.He said the decrease was due to damage caused by tomato moth. He said this in mind the ministry will take measures next year.....

Europe

Pembrokeshire Early Potatoes get PGI status
The famous Pembrokeshire Early Potato has joined the ranks of Champagne, Parma Ham and Melton Mowbray Pork Pies by being awarded protected food name status by the European Commission.From today the Pembrokeshire Early Potatoes names are protected by the European Protected Geographical Indication (PGI).....

First Moroccan Hass at Halls
Halls’ have received their first shipments of Hass avocado from Morocco to complement the winter supply to their European-wide customer base. The first arrival to their Rungis ripening and packing facility has tested well, thanks to satisfactory oil levels and uniform external appearance, giving ‘ripe and.....

Fresón de Palos expects to reach 73,000 tonnes
Spain: Huelva's strawberry campaign looking good
Huelva's strawberry campaign is almost ready to kick off. The harvest has just started, although production volumes are still low and it'll be necessary to wait until early January for them to start peaking."From now until January, we will mainly supply the Spanish domestic market, and in January we will.....

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Raymond van der Burgh: "Dutch supply has finished and Spanish supply is minimal"
ERP suppliers of Israeli yellow courgette once again.
For Europe Retail Packing (ERP), it is once again the start of the Israeli courgette season. "Last year, by the end of November, there were no more Dutch yellow courgettes, so this year we started earlier, and it has worked out well," explained Raymond van der Burgh. "Dutch supply has finished and Spanish.....

Marcel Jacobs: "Year round supply in cooperation with Verscombi"
EU: Spring onion season completed by Egyptian product
After a good season with Dutch spring onions grower Marcel Jacobs of Jacobs Groente from The Netherlands, started importing Egyptian spring onions two weeks ago. The Egyptian season runs to the end of April, resulting in Jacobs being the supplier of spring onions all year round. Jacobs' spring onions mainly.....

Luca Garletti: "Peruvian mangoes by air, is a way to guarantee quality"
In response to the article published by FreshPlaza, titled: Peru:"It's illogical to ship mangoes by air rather than by sea", Luca Garletti of the Italian company McGarlet, specialising in exotic fruits, is keen to point out: "Shipping the products by air is perfectly understandable for those who want to work.....

EU: Koppert acquires Welte-Nützlinge
Koppert Biological Systems took over the company Welte-Nützlinge GmbH on Wednesday 27 November. Welte-Nützlinge has long been an important distributor for Koppert, selling solutions for biological crop protection and pollination in Germany, Switzerland, and a number of other countries.Peter Koppert - one of.....

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DuPont launches Coragen®, new product for the fight against Tuber Moths
DuPont is launching on the market Coragen®, an innovative solution to control a harmful insect of potato crops, the Tuber Moth, that recently is increasingly damaging potato fields in the warmest countries of the Mediterranean area. Luigi Coffano, DuPont Italiana Country Manager and Food Chain Manager.....

Spanish Hass avocados face stagnant market
Although a few operators started the campaign two weeks earlier than usual, the Spanish Hass avocado season officially started in mid-November with similar production volumes as last year."Some exporters started making shipments before the fruit's quality was optimal. They benefited from good prices, but.....

José Antonio García, Ailimpo
"Spanish lemons boast excellent quality this campaign"
José Antonio García, from Ailimpo, an organisation based in Murcia which represents the interests of the production, export and industrial sectors and generates around 400 million Euro in revenue from the marketing of fresh lemons, juice and essential oils, offered us his assessment of the campaign.What are.....

The Nashi Trybeca pear a product in evolution
The year 2013 is almost to an end, but not the campaign of Nashi Trybeca.As the company Trybeca of Centallo (CN) explained: "Last season we had a warm autumn, so people wanted something fresh, crisp and pleasantly sweet, in short, a great product like an Asian quality pear.""The production was lower than the.....

Shipments of bananas from Canary increased by 56.74%
The Canary Islands have registered a net increase of their shipments of bananas.According to ASPROCAN (Asociación de Organización de Productores of Platanos de Canarias), the association of producers, the archipelago has shipped a total of 29,369 tonnes in October 2013 or 56.74% higher and additional 11,000.....

Crop diversity, food safety, food security under threat in Europe
Europe needs to do more to improve the availability of tailor-made plant-protection solutions for minor uses and speciality crops, participants confirmed at a major conference held in European Parliament today.The event, hosted by MEP Paolo de Castro, Chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Development.....

Oceania

AU: Market research shows spike in popularity of greengrocers
Consumer research released by AUSVEG today has shown a spike in the popularity of specialist vegetable retailers like greengrocers amongst consumers of four key vegetable products, surveyed in June and again in October this year.The October study of over 580 consumers showed an increase in the number people.....

AU: Guyra Greenhouse vegetable grower wins top farmer honour
Godfrey Dol, who grows tomatoes and eggplant as part of a major greenhouse facility in Guyra, NSW, has today been honoured as a joint winner of the 2013 NSW Farmer of the Year. Mr Dol, Technical and Business Development Manager at Blush Tomatoes, shares the award with Dubbo Merino breeders Matthew and Cherie.....

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Love Beets® celebrates its first Australian harvest
Australian grown baby beetroot in a new, convenient format
Australian grown baby beetroot will soon be available in a new, convenient format.Australian grown Love Beets® beetroot is peeled, cooked fresh and packed so they are ready to eat.These ready to eat baby beetroot will be available in the supermarkets from February 2014 in packs of 250g.Love Beets® are 100%.....

Africa

almost 200 percent increase
Zambia: Sweet potato output set to rise
Zambia’s sweet potato production in the 2013/14 farming season, is expected to rise to 20,000 tonnes from the current 12,000 which will potentially be for the regional export market.The figure represents a 200 per cent increase from the previous 71 per cent since small-scale farmers scaled up production more.....

World

March 2014: Most unusual grape season ever!
March 2013 seemed to be dominated with news about the Southern Hemisphere grape production. Namibia had good volumes and a very good demand due to the delayed South African season which was also 3.3 million cartons short due rain. Geoff Green, Capespan International said he had never seen such an “unusual".....

Retail

Village Super Market reports losses in Q1 2014
Village Super Market reported its results of operations for the first quarter ended October 26, 2013.Net loss was $6,831,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 compared to net income of $5,855,000 in the first quarter of the prior year. The first quarter of fiscal 2014 includes a $10,052,000 charge to.....

Aldi to sue Dunnes as supermarket price war intensifies
The German discounter Aldi will next week launch a lawsuit against its rival Dunnes Stores over the use of its name and prices in Dunnes’ advertising.The case highlights the intensity of the Christmas price war that has gripped the €9 billion Irish supermarket sector, following a drive by Aldi and its fellow.....

Russia's Dixy record 23% revenue increase
Russia's third-largest food retailer, Dixy Group, said today that it recorded an increase in sales and profits during the first nine months of the year. The company revealed that consolidated revenue grew 23% in the nine months to 131.56 billion roubles (€2.9 billion). Its earnings before interest,.....

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