All Production & Trade articles – Page 1477
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ArticleFirst courgettes delivered to New Spitalfields
Despite a cold spring holding crops back, UK grower and packer Oakley Farms delivered its first English courgettes of the season to TA Hilliard at Spitalfields this week.
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ArticlePicota season gets big kick-off
Foods from Spain is set to launch this year’s UK promotion of Spanish Picota cherries.
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ArticleJazz gets fruity for cancer research
Jazz apples backed the Fruity Friday campaign to get people to eat more fresh fruit, and helped to raise money for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) UK.
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ArticleKids mad for potato day
The British Potato Council’s (BPC) ‘Potato Day’ proved a hit with school children this year.
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Hot property up for grabs down under
A fruit producing business of significant size is on the market for realisation as a going concern, in Australia’s New South Wales.
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ArticleKiwifruit harvest disrupted
The New Zealand kiwifruit season has suffered delays to picking due to rainfall.
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ArticleMoroccan grape sector full of beans
Moroccan grape growers are “very optimistic” about their export prospects in 2006, according to leading exporter Delassus.
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ArticleWorld Cup battle of the bananas
Costa Rica take on Germany in the first game of the World Cup today backed by the nation's favourite fruit - bananas
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Growers' union slates supermarkets
The NFU has lashed out at the UK’s major supermarkets, accusing them of abusing their power, creating a climate of fear among suppliers, and putting supply chains at risk.
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ArticleAgrexco set for privatisation
Israel's Minister of Agriculture Shalom Simhon is acting to privatise Agrexco and transfer the ownership of the company to growers.
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ArticleCalifornian Bing makes grand entrance
California Bing cherries have arrived in the UK this week.
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ArticleSt Nick's spuds hit Tesco
Record rainfall in May has not held up the first deliveries of Kentish new potatoes to Tesco, according to local supplier St Nicholas Court Farms.
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ArticleSouth African grape industry to consolidate
Consolidation in the South African table grape industry is afoot.
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ArticleDug in the dead of the night
For the second year running, Lancashire potato grower Sean Mallinson has been burning the midnight oil to guarantee Booths customers the freshest locally-grown new potatoes.
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ArticleGreenvale taken into private hands
Potato supplier Greenvale Holdings plc group (Greenvale) has been taken into private ownership by a purpose-built company.
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ArticleSundowner campaign aimed at children
Marketers of branded apple Sundowner are set to launch a healthy eating campaign aimed at children.
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Be ware-y of aphid build-up
Potato ware crop growers must look for aphid build-up and be ready to take quick action.
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ArticleIsrael storms ahead in citrus recovery
The Israeli citrus season 2005-06 has just closed with the sector enjoying its third consecutive year of recovery following severe crisis four years ago.
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ArticleAnglo-Chilean alliance in berry category
A new company - Euroberryuk - has been formed from an alliance between two established grower owned companies from both sides of the Atlantic.
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ArticleGrowers issue melon warning
Area under production of early melons in the Castille-La Mancha area of Spain is 10-15 per cent up this season on last, but sector bosses are warning already that late varieties could bunch up and upset the marketing campaign.