The U.S. saw significant increases in Hass avocado imports from all Latin American origins through September this year, USDA data shows. Over the nine-month period, total imports from the region rose by 20% year-on-year from USD 1.7 billion to USD 2 billion. The growth came amid the lowest CaliforniaContinue Reading
A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world’s heaviest avocado. The Pokini family from the island of Maui received the Guinness certificate this week for the avocado weighing 5.6 pounds (2.54 kilograms), The Maui News reported Thursday. The average avocado weighsContinue Reading
US lawmakers are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rethink its position on the use of two medically important antibiotics to treat a disease affecting citrus production. In a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, JD, MBA, yesterday, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) saidContinue Reading
The Food and Drug Administration, citing eight foodborne illness outbreaks linked to papayas since 2011, has alerted all handlers of the fruit that repeated outbreaks are unacceptable and the industry must take action to step up food safety efforts. The papaya industry also needs to fund research to determineContinue Reading
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Laredo Port of Entry discovered two significant rare pests and another was confirmed as a first time find in the nation during the month of June. Agriculture specialists at the World Trade Bridge import lot June 5 found a squashContinue Reading
Orange juice is a staple on many breakfast tables, but the future availability of citrus products is threatened by the global spread of huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening disease. Knowing which environmental conditions are suitable for disease transmission and where those conditions occur is vital for cropContinue Reading
Dozens of people across the U.S. have fallen ill with Salmonella in an outbreak linked with papaya imported from Mexico, with a third of cases occurring in New York. The fruit has caused 62 people across eight states to get sick from Salmonella Uganda, the Centers for Disease ControlContinue Reading
The baby avocados in Enrique Bautista’s vast orchard in western Mexico will grow to maturity, eventually, and be shipped out of Mexico. What remains to be seen is how many of those green gems will reach consumers in the United States if President Donald Trump makes good on hisContinue Reading
Vietnam is seeking to export avocados to the United States, the Southeast Asian country said on Thursday, after U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to shut the U.S.-Mexico border raised fears American consumers could see a shortage. Avocado prices in the United States jumped by nearly 50% in April onContinue Reading
May will see Jamaica send its first mango shipments to the US, according to Audley Shaw, the country’s minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries. According to the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), the exported mangoes will be facilitated through the Mango Irradiation Programme, which stipulates the fruit must be treatedContinue Reading
One gauge of avocado prices is having its biggest gain in almost a decade as consumers weigh the latest rhetoric from Donald Trump on his threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico, a major supplier of the fruit. The Mexico City Hass price from Michoacan, the heartland ofContinue Reading
The conditions that two years ago led to a deadly multi-state salmonella outbreak due to Maradol papayas imported from Mexico remain largely unchanged. Imported papayas from Mexico remain under an import alert issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that permits U.S. ports of entry to detain theContinue Reading
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