Fresh Produce News and Industry
Gov. Deval Patrick‘s administration has announced that federal funding is on the way to Massachusetts farmers in five counties to help them with losses they suffered during hot, dry weather this summer and fall. According to the National Weather Service, the summer of 2010 was the third warmest on record, with temperatures above 90 degrees [...]
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More than 150 growers and packers of lemons and Persian limes in Mexico suspended exports to the United States to protest that country’s rejection of shipments due to the disease sweet orange scab, Mexican newspaper El Universal reported. The groups halted shipments Dec. 13, the day that the U.S. Department of Agriculture allowed lime shipments [...]
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will push for competition in the West Australian grain logistics system, after looking into CBH’s Grain Express program, which allows the company to require growers who store grain in its up-country sites to also use CBH transport services to move the grain to port. There was an arrangement [...]
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SOME horticultural growers around Emerald have recorded losses of up to 80pc following flooding this week, but many will have to wait for the water to recede before the full extent of damage to melon, vegetable, table grape and citrus crops is known. Growcom chief executive officer Alex Livingstone said the situation had been labelled [...]
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The Departments of Justice and Agriculture, examining competition in agriculture, will hold a hearing tomorrow on the increasing margins taken by retail grocers. In advance of this hearing, the United Food and Commercial Workers have issued a report on Walmart’s “stranglehold” on rural economies. Editor’s Note: The Departments of Justice and Agriculture will hold a [...]
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MANGO lovers are set for a shock, with the price of the summer favourite predicted to reach upwards of $50 a carton. Mango grower and Gin Gin Fruit and Vegetable Growers chairman Col Jeacocke says consumers can expect to pay top dollar for their mangos after a sodden growing season. “Crops all over the state [...]
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GRAND RAPIDS — The U.S. Labor Department is ordering blueberry farmers and contractors in four West Michigan counties to pay nearly $106,000 in penalties and back wages after an investigation over the summer turned up migrant housing and child labor law violations. The civil money penalties against 18 blueberry growers and nine labor contractors in [...]
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VANCOUVER – An invasive species of fly that likely hitchhiked into British Columbia on imported produce from the southern United States a year ago is already starting to run rampant in the province’s fruit crops. Unlike other fruit flies that attack overripe or rotting fruit, the spotted-wing drosophila lays its eggs inside the skin of [...]
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State’s production reaches plateau, may drop below last year A difficult, mixed year for Delaware’s poultry industry is closing out with new cause for concern as the region’s poultry giants quietly wrestle with rising costs, unsettled markets and a disease outbreak that can decimate flocks if left uncontrolled. Placements of poultry chicks on grower farms [...]
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The Riverland Winegrape Growers Association says wineries need to release wine grape prices now, to help growers plan their finance. Prices are not usually put out until January but wet weather has meant growers need to factor in the cost of downy mildew sprays. The association’s executive officer, Chris Byrne, says because prices are not [...]
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Dover, Florida – “I feel like it is going to be another one of them years,” said Matt Parke, shaking his head as he looked out at his crops at Parkesdale Farms in Dover. The last thing strawberry farmers like Parke want is a repeat of the January freeze that lasted an unprecedented eleven days [...]
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Cotton jumped the most allowed by ICE Futures U.S. for a second day as growers struggled to meet soaring demand in China, the world’s biggest consumer. Orders for U.S. exports in the year that ends July 31 have more than doubled from a year earlier, Department of Agriculture data show. For the week ended Nov. [...]
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As if the real-estate bust hadn’t wreaked enough havoc on Florida, farmers say abandoned lots left behind by would-be developers have become a breeding ground for a plague that is killing thousands of the state’s orange trees. A type of tiny lice known as the Asian citrus psyllid has made its home in the orchards, [...]
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It appears California’s Judge White, who’s overseeing hearings involving the planting of genetically engineered beet crops, has already made up his mind which way the ruling is going to go, and it doesn’t look good for conventional beet growers. Being that earlier this month he stated the litigants in the case, organic beet growers and [...]
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