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Here is a guide to a non-pesticide alternative for protecting fruit by encasing apples in bags that provide protective barriers against insects and fungal pathogens.

The country has packed over 7 million more cartons year-on-year, but has shipped 4.9 million cartons fewer to international markets.

Aggressive price fixing led by criminal groups is allegedly behind soaring prices of Mexican limes, and already affecting their availability on the menus of restaurants in the United States.

Angular leaf spot is a severe bacterial disease that can adversely affect strawberries wherever they are grown, potentially causing yield losses of up to 75%.

As Mexican authorities push to remove the U.S.'s avocado import suspension, an unnamed source in the Latin American country has told Fresh Fruit Portal why he believes the official received a threatening call last week.

If approved, it would mean that Chilean table grape exporters would no longer be required to use methyl bromide fumigation on fruit sent to the U.S.

 The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the appointment of seven members and 10 alternate members to serve on the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council. Members and alternates newly appointed to serve a three-year term ending Dec. 31, 2024 are: Nathan Sakuma of Burlington, WA (Western Region Producer Member) Anne Krahmer-Steinkamp of Saint Paul, OR (Western […]

The high rate of inflation has become a major talking point over the last few months. The Grape Reporter spoke with two experts from the U.S. and the U.K. to get their views on how this could impact table grape sales in two of the world's biggest markets.

The decision is to allow movement of fruit to packing houses located in contiguous states that are not quarantined for sweet orange scab and citrus canker.

Amnesty has been granted to illegal strawberry farmers who have been tapping water from the aquifer that feeds one of Europe’s largest protected wetlands.