Spread reaches lettuce milestone
Spread has surpassed 100m sales of its indoor leaf lettuce brand Vegetus while adding new products to its range in the process. Vegetus was originally launched in 2008 at the dawn of the

Buyers sought for greenhouse salad growers
British lettuce and herb growers Madestein (UK) Ltd and Fresh Willow Ltd have gone into administration after a substantial investment, combined with rising energy costs, inflationary pressures and

Lettuce will be the star of Fruit Attraction
"Lettuce will be the Star Product at Fruit Attraction 2023". This was announced yesterday in Madrid by the director of the event, María José Sánchez. There are many reasons for this, but she

“Lettuce will be Fruit Attraction 2023's star product”
The director of the event, Maria Jose Sanchez, announced yesterday in Madrid that Proexport would organize the Lettuce Attraction 2023. There are many reasons to do this, she said, but she

'Colorful salads predominantly originated in Germany'
In the case of iceberg lettuce, Spanish offers could be accessed almost exclusively, domestic supply flanked them with only very small quantities. According to the BLE, availability had become

Lithuania: “Our products are just 10-30% more expensive than conventional products”
On Wednesday, May 10, the doors of Leafoods' vertical farm were officially opened and inaugurated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The farm is set to deliver its first products by the end of this

France: Winter lettuce production declines despite increasing areas
According to estimates released by the French statistical service Agreste on 1 April 2023, the national harvest of winter lettuce will decline by 18% year-on-year in the 2022-2023 season - despite

AMI: German salads start the season
The lettuce harvest in Germany already started several weeks ago and continues to progress. After the import season struggled with the highly variable weather conditions at the beginning of the

Cucumber pricing remains difficult, including organic
The cucumber price continues to hover at low levels. In week 18, the average price dropped slightly again after a small rebound of the average price in week 17. With an average price of 12.7 euro

After the salads is before the tomatoes: Starting the barbecue with fresh vegetables from the Reichenau region
Barely time to catch their breath: that's the situation at the moment for the gardeners at Reichenau Gemüse. After the harvest of the greenhouse lettuces has been completed, the next steps are

Early yields lower for California leafy greens
Leafy green supplies are expected to be closer to regular supply levels in the second half of May. “Things are starting to settle down a little bit now, and I think by the second half of

Colombia's rich agricultural landscape
Royal Fruit and Vegetables SAS has been cultivating and selling agroindustrial products in the Colombian market for over 20 years. The company is primarily focused on the cultivation and

Uneven supplies and higher prices on lettuce likely until June
Very choppy until the first or second week in June. This is how Mark Vaughan of Fresh Avenue says the lettuce market will look until then. “It’s going to be an unsettled market with

Italy's first lettuce from the area of Romagna already on the market
The lettuce harvest began last week in Romagna (Italy) at the Fellini Patrizio farm. Thanks to the newly built greenhouses, it was possible to anticipate the start of traditional open-field

Floating rafts and nethouses provide perfect growing circumstances for Italian lettuce
The harvest and sale of Ninfa brand lettuce, grown on 10 hectares of floating rafts in the Italian province of Ravenna, started last week. Gianluca Rossi, owner of Valle Standiana, looks with

Easy Harvest iceberg lettuce conducive to both mechanical and hand harvest
About five years ago, Davie Brooks and Jon Nickerson with Greengo Seed started working on the development of iceberg lettuce that could be harvested mechanically, suitable for both processing as

Vegetable Quality Control: Only a few places left at the Fresh Produce Seminar in Berlin
The quality control of vegetables is the focus of the face-to-face training of the Frische Seminar on 10 May 2023 at Fruchthof Berlin. What are the marketing standards for the most important

Future Crops’ equipment to be auctioned
All equipment belonging to vertical farming group Future Crops is being auctioned through the Troostwijk Auctions platform, it has been announced, after the Poeldijk-based producer was declared

Fruit Attraction 2023 da record
Great response forFruit Attraction 2023: for the 15th edition, scheduled from 3 to 5 October in Madrid, 1800 exhibitors and 90 thousand professionals from 135 countries are expected to

Can lettuce be innovative?
From the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Producers-Exporters of the Region of Murcia (Proexport) they remind us that the Egyptians were already growing lettuces on the banks of the Nile more

Very nice demand for greenhouse arugula and French lettuces
Arugula is currently enjoying a nice demand, and this is likely to increase again in the near future, according to Enrico Smolik, managing director of the Freiburg-based wholesale company of the

By mid-April, the first domestic open ground produce from southern Hesse should be available
The first sets of vegetable plants are in the ground. At the BEHR farm in southern Hesse, planting of iceberg lettuce began at the end of February. The Gresse site in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

BEHR starts the outdoor season
The first sets of vegetable plants are in the ground. At the BEHR farm in southern Hesse, planting of iceberg lettuce already started at the end of February. The Gresse site in Mecklenburg-Western