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Agronometrics in Charts: Mexican lime prices set to rise amid ongoing quality and supply issues

Weather woes have complicated Mexican lime season this year.
September 12 , 2024

Fresh Del Monte earns a spot on Newsweek’s 2024 list of World’s Most Trustworthy Companies

The World’s Most Trustworthy Companies 2024 were identified in an independent survey based on a vast sample of more than 70,000 participants in 23 industries spanning 20 countries.
September 12 , 2024

Brazil: Fundecitrus annual survey shows HLB spread increase

The latest Fundecitrus annual survey of the incidence of greening (huanglongbing/HLB) shows that the disease has spread from 38% in 2023 to 44% in 2024 throughout the citrus belt of São Paulo and Triângulo/Sudoeste Mineiro. This marks the seventh consecutive year of spread increase.  According to Fundecitrus, approximately 90.36 million trees have been affected. In […]
September 12 , 2024

Pittsburgh-based AI startup Bloomfield Robotics is acquired by Kubota Corporation

Today Bloomfield offers services to wine grape, table grape, juice grape, blueberry, and raspberry growers in the US, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and France.
September 12 , 2024

Peruvian avocado in the final stretch of the season with low production

ProHass president Juan Carlos Paredes told Freshfruitportal.com that this season will end with a 12% decrease in production compared to last season.
September 12 , 2024

Spain continues to push for South African citrus ban in Europe

In full discussion of the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, AVA-ASAJA warned that “Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay are also unreliable from a phytosanitary point of view."
September 12 , 2024

APHIS expands the citrus greening quarantined area in California

There is no commercial citrus impacted by this expansion.
September 11 , 2024

USDA trade mission in Vietnam underway

U.S. tree nuts, fresh fruit, poultry, beef, and pork are in particularly high demand by Vietnam’s food processing, retail, and restaurant sectors. 
September 11 , 2024

Harold Mongrut Días appointed to NABC Board of Directors as an International Member

Mongrut has over two decades of experience managing consumer goods and operations in a host of countries.
September 11 , 2024

Australian plums gain access to Vietnam

The deal is a two-way agricultural market access agreement that provides Australian plums to Vietnam and Vietnamese passionfruit to Australia. 
September 11 , 2024