Tag: grapes

Overall produce prices are running below average. Down another -5 percent, prices are contradicting historical norms for week #19

Big news this week. Green beans are extremely tight on both coasts, and prices are being pushed to a ten-year high. The Mother’s Day pull is keeping the demand up.

Lots of insane weather in Florida and throughout the Southeast this past week. Heavy rain, golf ball-sized hail, severe wind, and even a few tornadoes in Palm Beach County caused damage to the homes, cars, and the remaining crops of producers in the state.

Peru saw continued growth in the 2022-23 season, but that may not be the case next season.

Last week Frutura, the global sales and marketing network, signed a licensing agreement with The Coca-Cola Company.

Grupo Alta announced today that Divine Flavor and Sun World International executed an enhanced collaboration agreement for premium table grapes.

During the period January-February 2023, a total of 738,000 tons of Chilean fruit exports were registered, for a value of $2.547 billion FOB, reflecting an increase in the volume exported of 14.3 percent, and in value of 7.3 percent, when compared to the same period last year.

Mexican table grape growers expect the 2023 crop to be slightly larger than last season.

The latest estimate from the Table Grape Committee of the Association of Fruit Exporters of Chile, the sixth of the season, projects exports to reach 64,518,065 boxes, reflecting a decrease of 13.2 percent compared to the previous season and a decrease of 4 percent in relation to the fifth estimate made less than a month ago.

International Fruit Genetics LLC (IFG), the world’s largest table grape breeder, which boasts 48 patented table grape varieties, 10 patented sweet cherry varieties and its first patented raisin variety, is commemorating the 20th anniversary of the breeding of the Cotton Candy grape.