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“When we have cooler years, the berry quality is a lot sweeter and firmer...this year’s quality of fruit is going to be next-level. Hopefully, the market will prevail, and everyone is happy, COVID notwithstanding.”
It’s not out of the question to assert that Toronto is the New York City of Canada. That makes the Ontario Food Terminal the Hunts Point Produce Market of Canada.
One of the biggest challenges of COVID-19 has been ensuring the health and safety of everyone, said Hutch Morton, senior vice president of J.E. Russell Produce Ltd. at the Ontario Food Terminal in Toronto.
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This should be a good year for Florida citrus with grower-shippers reporting good growing conditions for oranges and grapefruit, and some suppliers adding increasingly popular easy peelers.
Shipments of oranges and grapefruit from Texas should be up slightly this season, according to the November citrus forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Regional, club varieties of apples have done well for Lyndonville, N.Y.-based United Apple Sales, with Washington state’s apple production down about 15% from the prior year.
Mangoes are one of the fast-growing categories in the retail produce section, and many of them are from Mexico.
Pandemic or not, sweet potato marketers expect a boost from spring holidays such as Easter.
Sweet potatoes were already doing well lately, and after a crazy 2020, consumers want them even more, according to The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2021 consumer survey.
It can take two to three days for mangoes to ship from Mexico to U.S. ports, but there’s been a backlog of trucks because of the freezing weather in Texas.
After more than half a century filled with fresh fruit and vegetables, the Boston Market Terminal’s docks, platforms, bays and aisles are now hollowed out.
It’s time to go back to basics, y’all.
Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries do well on social media, with their natural good looks and sweet nature.
Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries do well on social media, with their natural good looks and sweet nature.
Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries do well on social media, with their natural good looks and sweet nature.
Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries do well on social media, with their natural good looks and sweet nature.
Exports play a role in the marketing plans of many citrus grower-shippers, but that role can vary from company to company and season to season.
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged produce grower-shippers throughout the U.S., but a silver lining for the citrus industry is consumers’ perception of citrus as immunity boosters.
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc. relaunched its Honeyglow pineapple.
Berries are doing fairly well nationwide, despite some typical weather challenges in dry California, a rainy or chilly spring in the Southeast, and atypical hailstorms in North Carolina that reduced the blueberry crop.
A major factor in the popularity of berries — besides their easy-to-love taste — is their much-touted health benefits.
Consumers typically turn to citrus to load up on vitamin C during cold and flu season, but this year, suppliers hope they’ll stock up on even more grapefruit, oranges, mandarins and lemons to keep COVID-19 at bay.
Although USDA’s NASS estimated that California’s navel orange crop will be about 42 million 80-pound boxes this season, some grower-shippers estimate that number might be a bit on the heavy side.
The Southern California strawberry scene has undergone a major transformation during the past couple of decades.
Southern California growers soon may have access to some new strawberry varieties.
Until Jan. 19, Southern California was enjoying an ideal strawberry season.
Shoppers want what they can’t have.
More tomatoes crossed the border at Nogales, Ariz., during the 2019-20 season than any other commodity, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Some distributors of West Mexico produce are more optimistic about a Joe Biden presidency than others, but no one seems dejected over the change in administrations.