Fluid market and good prices for the 2023 French asparagus campaign
Fleuron d'Anjou has celebrated the end of its asparagus campaign. After a rather “timid” start due to cold weather in April, the 2023 season has turned out to be very positive. “There are

'Any asparagus shortage in South African market will only be temporary'
Grahame Osler, a manager at the asparagus company Denbi, which supplies large retailers, explains that they imported less asparagus from source markets outside of Africa this year compared to

"Belgium's asparagus acreage shrinks further every year"

"Summer reduction balances mushroom supply"
Usually, as summer approaches, mushroom sales slow right down. "From when asparagus arrives in greater numbers until September, sales normally decline somewhat. This year, however, due to

Asparagus sales are doing well for the conventional product, less for the organic one
The totally unpredictable weather is affecting all horticultural crops, from north to southern Italy. In the province of Foggia, the cultivation of conventional and organic asparagus, as well as

Asparagus shortage in South Africa
South Africa has exported less from its traditional asparagus suppliers and there is a shortage of asparagus. On the Johannesburg municipal market's website an extremely low level of asparagus is

U.S. exporter sends lower volumes of Mexican grown asparagus to Hong Kong and Australia

“We plan to develop our production of green asparagus in photovoltaic greenhouses”
The Planasa - Darbonne nursery finished its white asparagus campaign two weeks ago, and this 2023 season has been very positive for the company. "In total, we have harvested 750 tons of asparagus

Two weeks left for Michigan asparagus
Michigan asparagus looks to have two more weeks left of its season. “We’re on the wind-down,” says Trish Taylor, marketing manager for Riveridge Produce Marketing, Inc. “Particularly with

"The demand usually falls in June, but asparagus prices remain at a good level"
Many eagerly await the asparagus season every year. For them, the moment when these seasonal vegetables can start to be harvested is always a highlight, but "the white gold" season isn't a long

"I am now the only one offering asparagus in the Munich Gärtnerhalle"
The season for Schrobenhausen asparagus has been going well so far, but is now slowly coming to an end. "We have heard from some farms in the area that they will stop harvesting in the course of

"Asparagus season was great, price-wise, but with very erratic supply"
The last month of the Dutch asparagus season is here again. "We're not dissatisfied. Price-wise, it was definitely a good season, with no lows," says Will Teeuwen of Teboza. "However, this

Mattarella, in Forlì the homage with fruit and vegetables from Romagna
A basket with the products of Romagna agriculture saved from the floods, from salad to garlic, from radishes to artichokes, from cucumbers to asparagus, was handed over by Coldiretti farmers in

Plastic made from asparagus in the Lower Saxony Asparagus Museum
Can we use asparagus peels for new plastics? The Lower Saxony Asparagus Museum in Nienburg/Weser vividly demonstrates that this is possible in its new permanent exhibition with a research project

Labor costs are the big caveat to high asparagus prices
The asparagus season in the northwest usually starts mid-April, but this year the crop was almost a month late due to a really cold spring. “When Mexico stopped shipping the third week of April,

Vegetable cultivation trend in Germany seems to decline
In Germany, vegetables were grown on around 126,000 hectares in 2022 - a decline of around four percent compared to the previous year. This is according to the report of the "National Dialogue on

BLE/BZL: Cultivation of vegetables in Germany declining in 2022
In Germany, vegetables were grown on about 126,000 ha in 2022 - a decrease of about 4 % compared to the previous year. Asparagus, onions, lettuces and carrots grew on more than half of this area,

Network of asparagus and berry associations: First German Asparagus Day successfully launched
Due to the weak demand and low prices for asparagus in the 2022 season, the Network of Asparagus and Berry Associations (Netzwerk der Spargel- und Beerenverbände e.V.) commissioned Pretzlaw