IPG NEWS
IPG looks to keep its customers, suppliers, and partners world-wide, all connected and in touch through its new IPG News Reports. This news source will highlight the most significant, relevant and day-day international trade and produce news stories.
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U.S: Solid Export Campaign for Northwest Cherries Despite Ongoing China Issues
August 2, 2019
The cherry season in the U.S. Northwest is winding down, with industry players reporting a solid export campaign despite ongoing trade issues with China - which two seasons ago was the region's top export market. The good export season also comes in spite of the year's slight dip in volume from last season's 25.4m boxes. "It's been an interesting season. I think at the start, growers industry-wide thought they had a larger crop than they did so that's been somewhat…
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Argentina Ships First Lemons to India
August 2, 2019
The first shipment of Argentinian-grown lemons is on its way to India, with 24 tonnes expected to arrive later this month (August). The shipment signals both the opening of the season and the beginning of a partnership with great potential. The Argentine Northwest Citrus Association (ACNOA) represents fruit producers, packing plants and industry personnel. President of the association, Pablo Padilla, acknowledged that shipments from the Southern Hemisphere will begin small, but insisted there is room to grow. “There is a…
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Processing Boost for Taiwan
August 2, 2019
New facilities being developed in the south of Taiwan could give the region’s fresh produce industry a boost Taiwan’s Pingtung County government has started work on new export processing equipment, which would allow the region to process its own fresh produce, according to local news sources. The county’s Agricultural Biotechnology Park is would soon commence building equipment for cold-chain logistics and vapor heat treatment facilities, the government told Taipei Times. Vapor heat treatment heats fruit up to 50°C, using steam…
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Canadian Greenhouse Labor Shortages Worsened By Growing Cannabis Producers
August 2, 2019
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada’s labor-strapped greenhouse vegetable and flower growers are ramping up efforts to keep and recruit more workers in the face of pressure from the country’s budding cannabis industry, farm groups say. Canada’s greenhouse, nursery and floriculture sectors employ 16% of all workers in Canadian agriculture. The industry has been grappling with a tight labor supply for years, and the current record low national unemployment rate is compounding the problem. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government legalized cannabis in…
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‘Wipe Out’ Little Cherry Disease Poses a Big Problem for Washington Growers
August 2, 2019
Ric Valicoff estimates that a year ago, 20 percent of the trees at his 10-acre Rainier cherry orchard near Wapato were infected with little cherry disease. The cherries on those trees could not be picked and sold. They were small and discolored — a faded yellow-pink. This year, 90 percent of his trees were infected. Valicoff tried to pick some of the cherries, but the orchard was far too infected. Within just a few years, the 20-year-old orchard had become…
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