As farm sizes grow and to-do lists get longer for each farmer, it can be a battle to beat Mother Nature’s wrath. Whether it’s replant from frost, delayed planting from rainfall or other conditions that make fields less than fit to plant, farmers have to fight to get the season started right.
The European production of apricots, peaches and nectarines is estimated to be lower than last season.
South Africa’s 2019/20 fourth summer crop production estimates data released this afternoon by the Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) did not introduce major adjustments from the previous estimates.
As many markets across the globe begin to ease living restrictions and many consumers start to take tentative steps outside their homes, the world they are returning to is far different from the one they left at the beginning of the year.
The South African raisin industry celebrated its 100th anniversary in the Orange River area in 2019 and is poised for significant expansion in the years ahead.
The lemon season in Spain, Italy and Turkey is ending earlier this year.
