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Hill Country peaches are a Texas favorite but farmers say this year's severe weather nearly destroyed their crops.May would usually be harvest time, but this year the crop is virtually non existent."You really have to search to see, but every once in a while you'll see one peach," said Dianne Eckhardt, a.....

Within the on-going "modernisation" process of the EU's trade defence instruments, started in October 2011, and after a first public consultation and a communication from the European Commission presented on 10 April, the Commission has issued a new public consultation, this time regarding the guidelines on.....

European vegetable canners and freezers in major producing countries are concerned over this year's Spring crops: excessive rain in the South and cold weather and a late spring in the North have resulted in very late drilling and consequently a shorter season.All important production areas in Europe face.....

This year, Coliman, the Mexican fruit exporter celebrates 50 years of operations. The company has announced it is using the opportunity to reaffirm its commitment to offering high flavour, quality and nutrition."The group was born in the state of Colima, hence the name," said Jorge Aguilar Jr., Corporate.....

Thanks to its climatic characteristics, Peru could become a world supplier of apples, cherries and walnuts, said Jorge Escobedo, specialist in fruit fromthe University Agraria La Molina (UNALM)."Fifteen years ago it would have been crazy to do this type of analysis. However, the global landscape has.....

Allround Vegetable Processingfrom Andijk supply a wide range of vegetable processing machines, directed at sorting, weighing, washing, polishing, brushing and packing of vegetables and potatoes, combined with scouring lines. The company's products include: inspection tables, lifts, washing machines, sorting.....

Melon Galia has experienced a rise and its average price ranges between 0.65-0. 70€/kg, the Piel de Sapo melon ranges between 0.95-1.10€/kg and the first batches of yellow melon are between 0.50-0.60€/kg. The quantities traded of the three types of melon are minority. Initial estimates suggest a reduction in.....

Luigi Bompadre, owner of the Bompadre commercial farm located in Civitanova Marche (Marche) - a company specialised in the production and processing of vegetables, especially leafy greens - is looking to collaborate with a similar company or a foreign partner wishing to distribute its products.Agricola.....

Purple, say Frieda's, is eye-catching on the runway and an attention grabber in the produce department. Frieda’s Specialty Produce encourages produce merchandisers to take advantage of the Year of Purple celebration and create an exciting and attractive display that will encourage shoppers to buy healthy.....

A new composting technology has been devised that can boost mushroom production by 20 percent to 30 percent while increasing revenues and reducing air pollution, the Council of Agriculture said Monday.The indoor tunnel composting method not only turns agricultural waste such as rice straw and bagasse into.....

Overnight, several supermarkets changed the way they charge for bananas. Now it is done by weight and not by unit.For example, in the Megasuper in San Francisco Rios, where bananas are being charged by weight, 4 bananas cost approximately 410 colones, i.e., a little more than 100 colones per unit.A similar.....

After having increased banana exports to Europe, from 5 to 14 containersin this year's first quarter, an unseen growth in recent years in the country, the exportation of bananas to Europe has become the centrepiece of the La Cruz of Manzanillo project.Following a visit of the banana project with several.....

Last week's visit by executives of the Australian Banana Growers Council (ABGC) seems to have done little to address concerns of New South Wales growers.At last Thursday's meeting local growers sought answers from the ABGC as to why NSW fruit sold for substantially less than Queensland fruit.ABGC chairman.....

Genetically modified pineapple grown in Costa Rica by Del Monte Fresh Produce Co. Inc. gained the approval of the US Department of Agriculture earlier this year.However, according to a statement from Del Monte officials April 26, the new pineapple variety — dubbed Rosé — is “in a testing phase.”“The USDA’s.....

In early April, the assessment of three pomegranate varieties imported from Israel (Emek, Shany and Kamel) started in Curicó, in the Region of Maule, Chile, with the goal of testing the possibility of expanding the fruit in central Chile.The main objectives are to find a better alternative to the traditional.....

With some 500 hectares in different triennial rotation states, which periodically include Strawberry-vegetable-cereal and afterwards strawberry or raspberry again, Viveros California begins its cultivation system in February by preparing the site. Later, in April, they plant the mother plants of different.....

Fowler Packing, one of the largest grower, packer and shippers of stone fruit, table grapes and clementines has hired Derrick Bender as Vice President of New Business Development. In his new role, Bender will help expand Fowler Packing’s domestic and international programs on their entire product.....

Last week a technical cooperation agreement between the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and the Magrabi Agriculture Co., head quartered in Cairo (Egypt), was signed. According to the Brazilian company the goal is to test the adaptation of selections and crops of peaches and nectarines.....

Syngenta and DuPont have announced technology licensing agreements that will broaden each company's crop protection product portfolio and enable both to bring new products to market more efficiently.Syngenta has obtained a global license from DuPont to develop products containing DuPont's fungicide.....

McCain Foods Ltd. and PinguinLutosa Food Group on Thursday offered the European Commission antitrust fixes for a deal to send Pinguin's €225 million ($294 million) Lutosa division to McCain food.The European Union antitrust watchdog pushed back its deadline to review the deal until May 28 as a result of the.....