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Top 5 - yesterday
- "Climate change is the new reality for Moroccan agriculture"
- The limits of a plastic covering in a weak supply chain
- California underway with late but great quality stone fruit
- "At the end of the road, yellow onion prices shoot up again after all"
- "The mango season in central and northern Senegal is starting slow"
Top 5 - last week
- UK and Europe “screaming for citrus” but still more rain for South Africa
- Large volumes of Vietnamese Kanyao durians on the market, Thai mangosteen in short supply with rising prices
- "2023 avocado season off to a good start"
- “Right now, everybody in the US is desperate for grapes”
- Grape farming firms among Namibia’s fastest-growing companies in 2023
Top 5 - last month
- Risk of heart disease might drop significantly by drinking these fruit juices
- South African strawberry aficionados in for a Woolworths treat
- Japanese farmer produces mangoes that sell for $230 each
- UK and Europe “screaming for citrus” but still more rain for South Africa
- Large volumes of Vietnamese Kanyao durians on the market, Thai mangosteen in short supply with rising prices
Special Australia and New Zealand
Global passion for avocados celebrated at 10th World Avocado Congress
The world’s all-consuming love affair with avocados shows no signs of slowing down with record numbers set to attend a global industry congress in Auckland next week. The 10th World Avocado Congress is expected to attract the single largest international delegation to a horticulture event held in Aotearoa…
Patrick Malley - Maungatapere Packing
"We are looking forward to further volume growth over the next few years with some more growers/orchards coming on board"
Maungatapere Packing (MPL) is now in it's second full packing season, set up in 2021 the facility packs blueberries for the Australian export market with the very latest in blueberry packing machinery. "Volumes have increased in our second season, although not as much as we had originally planned due to a…
Matt Palise - Red Rich Fruits
Volumes of Queensland's Imperial Mandarin up 10% this season
The Australian Imperial Mandarin season is about to kick off in Gayndah, Queensland. The local harvest, where 80% of Imperial Mandarins are grown in Australia, is around 7-10 days later than a normal growing season. Red Rich Fruits is expecting to harvest 250,000 13kg boxes of Imperial Mandarins that…
Matthew Falloon - Aspara Pacific
"Growers are always looking for high yielding varieties that maintain good tip quality"
The late Dr Peter Falloon started breeding asparagus over 40 years ago, and his son and the team at Aspara Pacific have been breeding asparagus in different forms ever since. "We currently have five commercial varieties. Four of which are mainly for fresh green production and the 5th is a purple…
"It has been a weakening year for the fruit category, declining $237.2million, with the volume also declining but marginally"
A concentrated sector has contributed to farmgate values dropping slightly in the fruit category
Despite strong growth showing positive signs for many growers in several individual categories, mixed performance across the sector saw the overall value of the Australian fruit sector fall four per cent over the past financial year. The Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook found that for the…
Sam Vasala - Sai World
“The Chinese market is doing well for Australian grapes"
The Australian grape harvest is well underway and growers are looking at a much better harvest this year, the season started slightly late but the quality and colour is looking very good. “The Chinese market is doing well for Australian grapes,“ according to Sam Vasala from Sai World. “The main variety…
Kurt Livingston - Fern Ridge Fresh
"Resilient growers have fought hard to produce high quality apples once again"
Fern Ridge Fresh, based in Hawkes Bay, have been in business for over 20 years. The company sources apples from growers all across New Zealand - from Gisborne and Hawkes Bay in the North Island to Nelson, Canterbury and Central Otago in the South Island. "We export the typical New Zealand apple varieties…
New Zealand’s Posy apples on the way to global markets
Mr Apple is excited to launch the 2023 apple season with PosyTM apples now en route to customers across the globe. “We stand by our 5 Point Promise which is our promise of apple excellence, juicy and sweet with exceptional taste and texture, customers are eagerly anticipating the arrival of Posy with…
Rebecca Blackman - WA Farm Direct
"This next step opens the door for the apple variety to be grown in other countries and sold under the Soluna™ brand"
The Bravo® apple is running slightly late this season, however fruit is expected to be harvested mid-late April around Australia. The harvest will start in Western Australia – Perth Hills or Stanthorpe Queensland. "We expect volumes to be up 10-15% from the 2022 season however, this is a reduction from…
Dr Stu Powell - Climate Consulting
"We advise clients of their frost risk, whether frost protection is required, how much is required"
The economic costs of frost to agriculture and horticulture can be significant. As winter and early spring frost in Australia and New Zealand is almost exclusively ‘radiative’ in nature, it forms predictable patterns as a function of surrounding topography and land use. Climate Consulting provide expert…
Prevar - developing premium cultivars by identifying future market opportunities
Prevar™ is a New Zealand based business that prides itself on being at the forefront of fruit innovation on the world stage, developing and commercialising apple and pear cultivars. The recent impact of cyclone Garbielle has been devastating for many. “We stand behind the industry and alongside our…
Hayden Stewart - P&C Automation
"The system accurately and consistently places interlocking trays on a pallet"
P&C Automation's palletizing solutions are custom designed to suit clients' requirements. The company recently delivered a palletizing solution to Australian producer Bendotti Avocado. While the system delivered to Bendotti Avocado was designed for palletizing up to two different product types…
Howard Hansen - Hansen Orchards
“We have a full crop of apples and they are looking good"
The apple harvest is just about to start in Tasmania and grower Howard Hansen from Hansen Orchards is hopeful of a return to a normal season after hail destroyed a whole orchard in the Huon Valley in the 2022 season. “I’m hoping we used all our bad luck last year,” said Howard. “We have a full crop of…
Jeff Scott - Australia Table Grate Association
Australian grapes look forward to strong domestic and export markets
The Australian grape growers are looking forward to a good season after a couple of challenging ones. The current harvest started 2-3 weeks late but the fruit is looking very good and it is starting to catch up now. In the main growing region of Sunraysia, where 75% of the country’s grapes are grown, and…
Nathan Bischa - Harvest Moon
"We believe they have the potential to change the way carrots are consumed around the world"
Tasmanian vegetable growing company Harvest Moon launched their Snackable carrots back in 2018, this was a product which they had been refining for five years previous to starting commercial planting. “Since then we have had to deal with extreme weather conditions which have impacted our supply,”…
The Avolution wins India Australia Business Council award for Excellence in Innovation
“There is already demand in India for good quality avocados"
The days of signs in shop windows saying ‘No avocados kept on these premise overnight’ are long gone in Australia and demand no longer outstrips supply, in fact over supply is more the norm. Between 2012-2021 the demand for avocados was huge and growers planted more, as is normal, big growers became…
AU: Centuria secures a 20ha tomato glasshouse
Centuria has secured a 20-hectare tomato glasshouse facility in Guyra NSW on behalf of its unlisted pure-play, Centuria Agriculture Fund (CAF), from a family-owned investment office. The transaction is CAF’s third off-market glasshouse acquisition taking the total size of its glasshouses under management…
Australia: Record macadamia yield said to drive prices even lower
Australian macadamia growers are urging shoppers to pop macadamias in their trolleys ahead of a predicted record crop. It’s predicted 60,000 tons of nut-in-shell will be harvested in this year’s season. This comes after farmgate prices tumbled from a record $6.20 per kilogram in 2020 to $2.50 per…
Australia Fruits - 20 years in the fresh produce business
Diversification is the key to overcoming challenges
Anyone in the fresh produce business knows that it is not one of the easiest businesses to be in, with all the ups and downs, be it from the markets, currency, weather or even global pandemics! Australia Fruits is celebrating 20 years in business this year, the company was started in 2003 when Joe Tullio…
Hot Water Treatment provides solution for Australian mangoes to enter export markets
Researchers have discovered how to advance mango trade in Australia by using hot water treatment to meet market entry protocols for fruit fly disinfestation in Australian mangoes. Heat treatment is the internationally accepted protocol for market access, currently applied through vapour heat technology. The…
Special Australia and New Zealand
It is that time of year again when FreshPlaza shines a light on Australia and New Zealand. Are you a grower, importer or exporter, machine manufacturer or in the packaging business? If you in anyway involved in the fresh produce business we would love to hear from you. You can send us in some info or we…
