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Leafy green growers seem to be frustrated with the ongoing issues around food safety and romaine. The leafy green and Caesar salad staple has made numerous headlines since April over E. Coli outbreaks which were ultimately connected with Romaine lettuce coming from the Yuma, Ariz. region. That said, with the.....
Since 2006, the Wonderful Company has been offering teas. The product was relaunched in the Fall of 2014 with the company’s current line of POM Antioxidant Super Teas. They are available in Pomegranate Peach Passion White Tea, Pomegranate Sweet Tea, Pomegranate Honey Green Tea and Pomegranate Lemonade Tea......
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Los Amigos Harvesting, which had a worker accused of exposing 15 nearby raspberry harvesters to harmful pesticides on June 29, 2017, owes Santa Cruz County $56,000. It is the largest fine issued by Agricultural Commissioner Juan Hidalgo in his 13 years of service.Hidalgo is fining Los Amigos Harvesting with.....
The Idaho potato is quite iconic. For many Americans, it’s Idaho’s only notable characteristic. Whether or not one relishes Idaho’s reputation as the land of potatoes, the vegetable remains an important pillar of the state economy; a resilient export backed by proven quality and true marketing power.That.....
Michigan might be caught in the midst of an international tariff battle. Mexico has placed a 20 percent tariff on US apples, among other things, in the wake of president Trump’s tariffs on Mexico’s imported steel and aluminum, undercutting the long-standing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).Mexico is.....
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The sudden commercial boom of blueberries has led producers to try to emulate this success with other berries. One of the first berries considered to replicate this success was the raspberry. It was promoted since 2011 in places that people thought were appropriate for growing it, such as Cajamarca. In fact,.....
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The latest Total Consumer Report from Nielsen, which leverages the company's new Total Food View, shows that fresh categories within the U.S. are driving nearly 49% of all dollar growth across the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brick-and-mortar landscape. In fact, within the last year, fresh and perishable.....
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United Fresh is pleased to announce that Dr. Emily Griep has joined the staff as Manager, Food Safety, reporting to their Vice President of Food Safety & Technology, Dr. Jennifer McEntire.Griep recently received her Ph.D. from Cornell University as a USDA National Needs Fellow in the area of ‘food safety.....
Agricultural researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo analyzed soil and tissue samples from sweet potato fields along the Hāmākua Coast to see if current fertilizer practices can be improved at the sites. Horticulturalists Chantal Vos and Norman Arancon, from the College of Agriculture,.....
Food companies are capitalizing on the low-carb, gluten-free trend by using vegetables like cauliflower to replace flour, rice and other simple carbs. Gail Becker, a former marketing executive who has two sons with celiac disease, discovered that finding gluten-free pizza that her kids could enjoy was a.....
Village Farms International announced that all of the director nominees listed in the management information circular dated May 10, 2018 were elected as directors of the company at the annual and special meeting of shareholders. The results of the vote for each nominee director are set out below:In addition,.....
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The National Health and Agricultural Food Quality Service (Senasa) banned the entry of citrus fruits in bulk in the provinces of the Argentine Northwest (NOA) to prevent the spread of the bacterium of the HLB disease to that region."The entry of unprocessed fresh citrus fruit in bulk, and of the propagation.....
In 2018, Honduras expects to surpass the 30 thousand containers of bananas worth 523 million dollars that it exported in 2017.The projections remain, despite the 7.2 million dollars decrease in banana sales abroad in the first quarter. Between January and March shipments of this fruit totaled 127.3 million.....
The president of the Association of Producers of Grapes, Fruits and Vegetables of Sonora, Marco Antonio Molina Rodriguez, stated that, every day, a thousand to two thousand boxes of table grapes were stolen from agricultural fields across the State, and that the annual losses amounted to two million.....
Brazil split into areas with same population size
A map of Brazil split into four areas with approximately the same population size.
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Trade tensions between the US and China are again ratcheting higher after the Asian nation said it will follow through on plans to levy tariffs on a range of American farm goods, including soybeans and corn. An additional 25 percent tariff will levied on about $50 billion of US imports, China’s Ministry of.....
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Following the annual USDA report, better climatic conditions greatly improved Morocco's production and export outlook for MY 2017/18; Morocco's Berkane region regained market access to the United States, and Morocco updated its export subsidy program, albeit with only minor changes for citrus. Citrus.....
Smallholder farmers are the most vulnerable to impacts of climate change, with rain-fed agriculture accounting for more than 90% of farmed land in sub-Saharan Africa. These farmers face many risks, including drought, disease and pest epidemics. But a new GPS-based digital technology may help many African.....
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Most Poles prefer to buy domestic fruit and vegetables, even when they are more expensive. It's not just consumer patriotism; Poles believe that domestic strawberries or apples are simply tastier than foreign ones.This has been the conclusion of a poll carried out at the request of Wirtualna Polska, in which.....
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A British company has joined the race to develop a banana variety resistant to diseases and climatic changes that threaten to disrupt the availability of the country’s favourite fruit, or even kill it off altogether. The UK alone consumes more than 5 billion bananas a year, while the fruit is a staple food in.....
Reusable containers for fruit and vegetables result in no less than 60% lower CO2 emissions than cardboard packaging. This is the conclusion of an extensive European study commissioned by the German organization Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg (SIM).The independent German research institute Fraunhofer carried out.....
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The 2017/2018 export campaign has come to an end in recent days for the Federation of Horticultural Producers of the province of Las Palmas (Fedex) and the Association of Producers and Exporters of Tenerife (Aceto). The season's results are considered average when it comes to aspects such as yields and market.....
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