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2 days ago

Major Florida grower to end citrus operations after years of hurricanes and tree disease

ORLANDO, Fla. — A major grower said this week it was abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida’s signature crops are facing following a series of hurricanes and tree diseases. The impact of Hurricanes Irma in 2017,Ian in 2022 and Milton in 2024 on trees already weakened from years of citrus greening disease “has led Alico to conclude …

Florida Grower Citrus Disease

2 weeks ago

Fruit tourism: Why Central Asia would be the best place for it, and why it hasn’t happened yet.

Slate

This is part of Fruit Loot, which is taking a look at the strange and surprising links between fruit and money. … The development of fruit tourism relies on destinations and their producers.” In other words, Okumus suggests, fruit tourism depends not just on fruit nuts like Gasik and Murray, but also on the usual travel-marketing playbook employed by visitors’ …

Food Asia Fruit Cotton Murray Central Uzbekistan

3 weeks ago

UK growers hope to make strawberries part of the Christmas tradition

The Independent

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Two producers in West Sussex have produced 38 tonnes of …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

ACCC's supermarket inquiry to hear from Woolworths followed by its rival, Coles

ABC

It might not have the explosive drama of a Senate inquiry but for the past 10 days hearings led by Australia's consumer watchdog have been quietly unpicking the mechanics of the nation's supermarkets. "The chain stores have grown in size, and it's become a real duopoly, and it's been unchecked by governments," Mr Hall told ABC News. The ACCC's scope …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Inevitable spread of varroa mite prompts concern for food security and prices

ABC

Honey bees pollinate $4.6 billion worth of food in Australia, but with the inevitable spread of a parasitic mite and the eventual predicted wipe-out of the feral bee population, farmers are warning of an impact at the check-out. Researchers have previously predicted feral bees will succumb to varroa mite in coming years, which will see demand from pollination-dependent fruit and …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Health officials investigate onion farmer in Washington as more E-coli cases linked to McDonald’s emerge

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Government officials are investigating …

Outbreak Washington Colorado Fda Taylor Farms Coli Onions

2 months, 1 week ago

McDonald's E. coli case count rises as federal officials inspect an onion grower

The Independent

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2 months, 1 week ago

Cauliflowers are tricky to grow but this vegetarian curry recipe couldn’t be simpler

The Independent

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kate Humble created this recipe after being inspired by professional …

Cook Curry

2 months, 2 weeks ago

At least 75 sickened as deadly McDonald's E. coli outbreak expands

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Datong emerging as China's citron daylily hub

China Daily

Workers pick citron daylily buds at a plantation in Yunzhou district of Datong, North China's Shanxi province. Tang Wan, a citron daylily grower in Yunzhou, and his wife enter their field every night around 11 pm to harvest the flowers until dawn. Tang's hometown, Yunzhou, provides an ideal environment for citron daylily cultivation, which benefits from abundant sunlight, significant temperature …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Frosts have wiped out crops across some of Australia's premier wine regions, including the Barossa and Riverland

ABC

Grape growers are battling to avoid major crop losses after severe frosts swept across southern parts of Australia in recent days. He said the recent frost was "very extreme", and damage to vines because of the frosty weather could also impact yields into the future. In the Riverland, Australia's largest wine grape growing region, grower Michael Stivahtaris said one fifth …

Wine Quality Temperatures Grape Vines Growers Frost

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Gracie Abrams sticks close to her fans at Greek Theatre opener

LA Times

Gracie Abrams is performing a three-night run at the Greek Theatre as part of her Secret of Us tour. It’s a pattern of Abrams’ that hasn’t changed from her earliest live shows to her opening sets last summer on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour — she blows kisses, holds hands and whispers “I love you” under her breath, all with the …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Dragon fruit cultivation on the rise in the state

Hindustan Times

Once exotic and used by select people, dragon fruit is now popular among all sections of society as it has become affordable for the common public mainly due to higher cultivation. In the past three years, several farmers from Pune, Satara, Kolhapur districts and parts of Marathwada along the coast have turned to dragon fruit cultivation. According to traders, dragon …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Improving weather generates abundance of strawberries for sale

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Kent fruit grower Mansfields said despite cloudy skies, the …

Tesco Strawberries

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Wheat Supplies Set to Expand With Record North Dakota Yields

Live Mint

-- Record-high wheat yields in North Dakota are set to further expand American grain supplies and should help to quell inflation for foods like bagels, where prices had recently started rising again. The primary variety grown in the state of hard red spring wheat should yield 54.5 bushels per acre, according to the tour’s final data Thursday. North Dakota should …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Changing monsoon altering crop cycles’

Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI: June, the first of the four-month monsoon season, is becoming drier and hotter, delaying sowing of kharif or summer crops by two to three weeks and, as a result, pushing winter-planted wheat into periods of heat stress, official data shows. This in turn tends to delay and shorten the time available for sowing the winter staple wheat, exposing …

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6 months ago

Ambitious project calls for hunters to collect 10,000 feral pig ears to guide eradication research

ABC

A Queensland wildlife ecologist hopes an ambitious project to collect 10,000 feral pig ears will provide data to help manage the damaging pest. James Trezise, director of the Biodiversity Council, said feral pigs affected almost all forms of Australian wildlife through digging, foraging, trampling, and predation. "What we need to see with feral pigs is integrated strategic pest management and …

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6 months ago

Health officials reveal cause of cucumber-related illnesses across America

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Untreated water used by …

Florida Fda Cucumbers Bedner Growers

6 months ago

Untreated water tied to salmonella outbreak in cucumbers that sickened 450 people in US

Associated Press

Untreated water used by a Florida cucumber grower is one likely source of salmonella food poisoning that sickened nearly 450 people across the U.S. this spring, federal health officials said Tuesday. Salmonella found in untreated canal water used by Bedner Growers Inc. of Boynton Beach, Florida, matched a strain of the bacteria that caused some of the illnesses in reported …

Florida Water Fda Salmonella Bedner Growers Bedner

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Spinach shortage looms as rain continues to waterlog fields

Dutch News

The ongoing wet weather in the Netherlands has created a shortage of spinach on the supermarket shelves, RTL news reported this week. But the continual rain means “we are still starting up,” spinach grower Edwin van Uijen said. The soil is too wet so the roots die and then the crop fails.” The potato and other crops are also being …

Spinach Shortage

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Spinach shortage looms as rain continues to waterlog fields

Dutch News

The ongoing wet weather in the Netherlands has created a shortage of spinach on the supermarket shelves, RTL news reported this week. But the continual rain means “we are still starting up,” spinach grower Edwin van Uijen said. The soil is too wet so the roots die and then the crop fails.” The potato and other crops are also being …

Spinach Shortage

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: California farmers are low on water. Why not help them go solar?

LA Times

It sounds like a climate solution everyone should be able to support: Let’s make it easier and cheaper for farmers with dwindling water supplies to convert their lands from crop production to solar energy generation, if that’s what those farmers want. Here’s how it would have worked: In eight San Joaquin Valley counties with groundwater basins that state officials consider …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Wheat procurement sufficient for food-security schemes: Govt

Hindustan Times

The government’s procurement of wheat has crossed the minimum threshold quantity required to cater to all welfare schemes despite a delayed start, including distribution of free grains to nearly 800 million beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act, and authorities said they were on course to achieve grain-stocking targets for 2024. Procurement refers to purchases of grains by the Food …

Food Prices Wheat Million Tonnes Fci Total Procurement

8 months, 3 weeks ago

The ingenious wines birthed from black volcanic craters

BBC

The ingenious wines birthed from black volcanic craters Turismo de Islas Canarias The conical hollows of Lanzarote are built in volcanic ash In Spain's Lanzarote Island, conical hollows built into layers of volcanic ash yield wines that have been created from generations of ingenuity and hard work. The island of Tenerife found eager customers in England – even Shakespeare noted …

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Major Florida grower to end citrus operations after years of hurricanes and tree disease

Fruit tourism: Why Central Asia would be the best place for it, and why it hasn’t happened yet.

UK growers hope to make strawberries part of the Christmas tradition

ACCC's supermarket inquiry to hear from Woolworths followed by its rival, Coles

Inevitable spread of varroa mite prompts concern for food security and prices

Health officials investigate onion farmer in Washington as more E-coli cases linked to McDonald’s emerge

McDonald's E. coli case count rises as federal officials inspect an onion grower

Cauliflowers are tricky to grow but this vegetarian curry recipe couldn’t be simpler

At least 75 sickened as deadly McDonald's E. coli outbreak expands

Datong emerging as China's citron daylily hub

Frosts have wiped out crops across some of Australia's premier wine regions, including the Barossa and Riverland

Gracie Abrams sticks close to her fans at Greek Theatre opener

Dragon fruit cultivation on the rise in the state

Improving weather generates abundance of strawberries for sale

Wheat Supplies Set to Expand With Record North Dakota Yields

‘Changing monsoon altering crop cycles’

Ambitious project calls for hunters to collect 10,000 feral pig ears to guide eradication research

Health officials reveal cause of cucumber-related illnesses across America

Untreated water tied to salmonella outbreak in cucumbers that sickened 450 people in US

Spinach shortage looms as rain continues to waterlog fields

Spinach shortage looms as rain continues to waterlog fields

Column: California farmers are low on water. Why not help them go solar?

Wheat procurement sufficient for food-security schemes: Govt

The ingenious wines birthed from black volcanic craters