Industry Announcements

Florida orange volumes forecast up by 76% in 2018-19

The Florida Citrus Mutual hopes this season will be a new start for growers in that state, which has been ravaged by citrus greening disease and was last year hit by Hurricane Irma.
October 11 , 2018

U.S.: Cuties becomes Disneyland's official citrus fruit

The branded clementines will be used in numerous food and beverage areas throughout Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort.
October 09 , 2018

Urban Crop Solutions offers a glowing and growing global future for indoor farming

The Belgium-based firm, one of 13 start-ups featured as this year's World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London, provides ground-breaking 'turnkey' vertical solutions for growers.
September 26 , 2018

Dole sells U.S. headquarters for US$50M

The move comes a few weeks after Ireland-based multinational Total Produce acquired a 45% stake in Dole.
September 14 , 2018

Chile establishes national fruit board

Agriculture Minister Antonio Walker announced the move, which is intended to help the sector face future challenges.
September 10 , 2018

U.S.: Wonderful Company sees sky-high growth as strategy pays off

Last year the company achieved packaged produce sales of almost US$1.5 billion and saw some of the highest levels of growth among the major industry players. We recently took a trip to California to visit its citrus and nut operations.
April 16 , 2018

Chile: Leading strawberry nursery launches new California-bred varieties

The launch came during a field day event at an experimental research center, which was established to help support the industry.
October 30 , 2017

Ifored launches red-fleshed apple brand

The first commercial trials of three varieties of different skin colors are to get underway in the coming weeks. 
October 20 , 2017

BC Tree Fruits refreshes Ambrosia apple branding

The cooperative's volumes are expected to increase by 150% over the next several years.
October 19 , 2017

Australia: Freshmax Brisbane upgrade nears completion

As the first site in Australia to use 100% Ethy-Gen catalytic converters for ripening, the facility caters to all members of the Freshmax Group along with third-party users.
October 05 , 2017