Ukrainian farmers are already shipping blueberries cheaper than last year
Blueberry prices in Ukraine continue to drop rapidly, and this berry is already cheaper than in the second half of July 2022, EastFruit project analysts report. At the same time, key market

"Perfect match between quality and buyer"
The internationally active Dutch soft fruit supplier, BerryWorld, first made contact with the Swiss Agrinorm, still a startup then, in early 2020. They have now been using Agrinorm's QM software

Solutions for the biological protection of raspberries in tunnels
As part of the Raspberry Factory 2023 project, we test and implement solutions to optimise production technology to the situation at hand or changing market requirements. Several such solutions

Solutions for the biological protection of raspberries in tunnels
As part of the Raspberry Factory 2023 project, we test and implement solutions to optimise production technology to the situation at hand or changing market requirements. Several such solutions

AgroFresh beefs up post-harvest portfolio with Tessara acquisition
AgroFresh Solutions has acquired post-harvest solutions provider Tessara from global investment firm Carlyle. The deal, which remains subject to clearance by the South Africa competition

Piñata Farms reaps benefit of tracking technology
Four years after major fruit producer Piñata Farms introduced Australian-designed technology to track the temperature and location of premium berries and mangoes along the supply chain, it has

“Days of berry production without cold chain are over for Serbian producers”
Following another year of harsher rainy weather across Serbia that negatively impacted blueberry, raspberry and other soft fruit production, Sanja Larsson, CEO and owner of Serbian berry producer

Cal Poly Strawberry Center and USDA receive funding to automate California strawberry farming
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Strawberry Center and the USDA Research Agency recently received a federal grant to focus on tools to help automate strawberry farming in California. The Strawberry

Finding tech solutions to labour problem
Training fruit pickers using virtual reality equipment, employing robots to move fruit containers and wearing exoskeletons to support physical labour are all possibilities being considered by

Eyeing a future where fruit pickers are trained by virtual reality
Training fruit pickers using virtual reality equipment, employing robots to move fruit containers, and wearing exoskeletons to support physical labor are all possibilities being considered by

'With Sekoya we revolutionise the Italian blueberry market'
SanLucar lands in Italy in 2019 to bring its wide range of high-quality fruit and vegetables to the Italian consumer. More than 100 references with a common denominator: excellent taste and

DFHV Juniors: Five-star hotels for strawberries and talks with artificial intelligence
The DFHV Juniors' online X-Change on the topic of start-ups in the food industry went into the second round on 28 June. In around 1.5 hours, four young people once again presented their company

QS: Strawberry producers handle pesticides responsibly
A current evaluation from the QS residue monitoring, in the context of which 197 strawberry samples were examined for pesticide residues, attests QS-certified strawberry producers a high sense of

REO Veiling launches new strawberry punnets
From 1 July, Tomabel strawberries from Belgian cooperative REO Veiling, are set to be offered in new strawberry punnets that meet the latest sustainability requirements. The strawberry punnets are

Agrion Foundation, focus on strawberry varietal research
Preservation and innovation: this is the combination that drives the work of the Agrion Foundation's Boves experimental centre, which has an operational section specialising in research on

Strawberries. Good OR not at all!
Arkadiusz Wozniak grows strawberries using traditional technology in the ground. The reliable Marmalade prevails, and there is also Roxana for an earlier fruit harvest. We start the season with

VSSE: Aromatic strawberry season with slightly less volume and predominantly stable prices
A hesitant start to the season due to cool and cloudy spring days was followed by many sunny weeks with cool nights and only since one week with warmer nights. The severe drought of the past weeks

Raspberries can last twice as long before going to waste
After a few days on the shelf, raspberries are likely to join millions of tonnes of produce that are wasted every year. This unnecessary loss of food can be reduced thanks to technology. Food tech

Fedemco signs sustainability deal with Interfresa
Fedemco, Spain’s federation of wooden containers and their components, and Andalusian strawberry interprofessional association Interfresa have signed an agreement to work together on the

VSSE initiates Prof. Dr Hans-Dieter Hartmann Award of 5,000 euros annually
Farm managers of asparagus and strawberry farms, their employees, trainees, students as well as persons in research and consultancy. If they do not earn money directly from the product, they can

Planasa agricultural company goes on sale for 1,000 million euros
Agricultural company Planasa, which operates in Huelva, from its logistics center in Cartaya, and is the biggest Spanish player regarding red berries, has just started selling. This was announced

New berry packs do away with bubble pads
Thermoforming packaging specialist Waddington Europe has claimed a first by supplying a full range of soft-fruit punnets to the UK market that are easier to recycle and use less plastic than

AI-powered produce scanners to put an end to wasted strawberries
OneThird, a food tech company created to address the annual loss of one-third of all food produced due to spoilage, today announced the deployment of its AI-powered scanner technology in the