First German onions available on the market
In onions, the range, still dominated by imported goods, is increasingly being supplemented by the first domestic onions. More and more retail chains are switching to the first winter onions.

"The first two weeks of July will still be complicated for melons."
While consumption is high, there is a lack of product, and people are flocking to buy melons. "Prices have risen to unprecedented numbers," says Bruno Francescon of Mantuafruit, a melon

A thousand hectares of fruit and arable land in the Bologna area devastated by the storm
Still the weather is the protagonist, in a negative way. The violent thunderstorm on Monday afternoon that hit agriculture in the Bologna area, in particular in Valsamoggia and the Anzola

Wimbledon serves bigger strawberries, but the price has not changed
Inflation may be driving up food prices, but at Wimbledon, sports fans are set to still pay just £2.50 for a punnet the delicious fruit (with cream). For the last 13 years, strawberries and cream

Grapes: Harvest of seedless varieties started in Spain and Italy
The North African grape season is drawing to a close. The last shipments of seedless red and light grapes are reaching the European market from Egypt and Morocco. In the meantime, the harvest of

Fruit Attraction 2023 surpasses previous edition already
Three and a half months before the start of the 15th Anniversary of Fruit Attraction – from October 3 to 5 – and still in the midst of the commercialisation phase, the fair has already

A truck loaded with peppers was stolen at gunpoint in Granada
The Civil Guard has arrested the 39-year-old man who, on June 17, stole at gunpoint a truck loaded with peppers. The theft occurred around 19:40 hours when the driver of a truck from Morocco

"Lower watermelon quantities, but sizable enough to be sold in slices in supermarkets"
Geofur started harvesting its almost 60 hectares of watermelons located between the Ostiglia (Mantua) and Melara (Rovigo) municipalities. The market is very receptive at the moment, also because

Ripe to overripe stone fruit from Spain due to heavy rainfall
The heavy rainfall in Spain meant, among other things, that the water content of the fruit was so high that it arrived in Germany partly ripe to overripe and rotted more quickly, as Philipp Lang,

''This season we have the luxury of Belgian cherries entering an empty market"
It has been a long wait, but the cherry season has finally begun at the Belgian BelOrta. "It's a great start, but the still relatively limited volumes along with consumers' desire for tasty

Record watermelons: €1.40/kg wholesale
Golden times for watermelons and melons, after a very difficult first half of June (for more details click here) they have risen to the top of the summer fruit and vegetable list; in fact, there

Scottish strawberry season going well but growers still not seeing good returns
In Fife the Scottish strawberry harvest got off to a good reasonable start in mid-May. Robert Simpson from Fife Fruits who grows soft fruit on 32 hectares in Fife said that the early strawberry

June watermelons still on the handbrake
Week 24 saw a softening of the trend compared to the previous week for Lcc, but also for fruit and vegetables by weight. Among the channels, discount stores continue to grow in fruit and vegetable

A mural against fruit and vegetable waste
'Help the planet. Save fruit and vegetables that are still good'. "I'm cool because I don't waste". And again: 'Five times a day feed yourself with the colours of fruit and vegetables'. This

Caab launches development plan, investments of over 10 million
"The CAAB must play a leading role in the city and return as a crossroads for Italian fruit and vegetables and not only." This, in a nutshell, is the thinking of Marco Marcatili, president of the

The mini vegetable trend continues to grow
Mini vegetables are still very trendy, “especially in the catering sector,” explains Vincent Elegoet, manager of Saveurs du Bout du Monde. Historically, the company has always offered a

"Overseas countries are also still present in the market"
The presence of German soft fruits gradually expanded in recent weeks. "At the beginning of June, there were already the first blueberries from regional greenhouses, these are now being replaced

"Belgian cherry season begins with high demand and sky-high prices"
The Belgian cherry season has finally begun. Although volumes are still limited, the first early varieties are beginning to find their way to market. "We started about a week ago. Supply-wise,

“These rains in Chile have been the worst in 30 years.”
Table grape, cherry and some blueberry fields in Chile are still wet, muddy and inaccessible after last week’s heavy rain and flooding. Vegetable producers are especially hard hit, while some