Italy’s Court of Bari has forbidden a grape producer from harvesting or selling any table grapes from unauthorized plantings of Sugrathirtyfive variety (Autumncrisp brand) of grapevines. Evidence was collected by a drone.
The globe’s second largest frozen potato company has revealed that net sales have improved 14 per cent compared to the previous year’s quarter. Confidence in South America is marked by the increase to 90 per cent ownership in a venture in Argentina.
An October 2022 report by Rabobank Research predicts that global blueberry exports will surpass the one million metric tons mark as early as 2025 or 2026. In North America, the use of substrates, protected culture, and mechanical harvesting is expected to solve supply-side challenges.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will be collecting leafy green samples from mid-September through October 2022. Multi-disciplinary experts will be looking at the sanitary design of harvest equipment and how field production and processing practices may be contributing to contamination events.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture reports that farmers produced $51.1 billion of agricultural products in 2021. That’s up 3.6 per cent from the previous year. The statistic is a significant achievement in the face of record-breaking drought.
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