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Brazil: Heat wave concerns citrus producers
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Jan van Iperen
October 17, 2024
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Not all recalls are equal. Manufacturers often catch the problem on their own and voluntarily issue a recall, but not always. Also, a lot of voluntary recalls wind up only scratching the surface of scary issues like widespread bacterial contamination.
Generous Brands, formerly known as Bolthouse Farms and now championing three leading brands in the fresh beverage produce market – Bolthouse Farms, Evolution Fresh and SAMBAZON – announced the launch of the largest innovation suite for the company in ten years.
Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley said sugary beverages contribute to childhood obesity and diabetes. He supports a ballot measure that would impose a two cents per ounce tax on sweetened beverages sold in the city.
Upcycling transforms brewing coproducts, known as brewer's destarched grains (BDG), into a premium, plant-based protein source that offers one of the lowest environmental footprints of any protein available today. This process focuses on the sustainable use of resources. It also leverages a secure closed-loop supply chain sourcing the highest-quality grains from U.S. growers, thereby reinforcing REBBL's commitment to sustainability and empowering consumers with plant-powered functional fuel.
🍊 Citrus News
High temperatures in São Paulo state in early October reinforced producers’ concerns, since this scenario can affect both fruits that are on the trees (from the current season, 2023/24) and the production of the next crop (2024/25), especially non-irrigated areas. Therefore, in mid-October, citrus growers were waiting for the rainfall in major producing regions.
So far, the biggest challenge for the current season (2023/24) has been the fact that fruits have wilted, which affects directly the quality, according to players surveyed by Cepea. In normal conditions, this quality loss would press quotations down; however, due to the limited supply this season, prices remain firm.
Citrus crops across the Sunshine State are in a world of hurt, as back-to-back hurricanes and one of the most serious plant diseases plague oranges and their prices.
"Milton came across the center of the state and really impacted probably 70% of the most productive citrus acreage in Florida," Florida Citrus Mutual CEO Matt Joyner said on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast," Tuesday.
Frozen concentrated orange juice futures on the Intercontinental Exchange in New York are nearing new record highs. The squeeze in the physical markets may drastically worsen after a new citrus grove survey damage report across Florida following Hurricane Milton shows widespread damage.
The international trade association explained that the dynamism recorded between January and July of this year was driven by the increase in the exported volume, which reached 175,916 tons, showing a growth of 23.9 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. Between January and July 2022, it amounted to 169,267 tons.
With the 7 rejections due to black spot (Phyllosticta citricarpa or CBS) recorded in European ports last September, the year's total number of detections of the presence of this dangerous fungus (whose control is regulated as a "priority" by the EU) in citrus fruit coming from South Africa is now 26. The number of interceptions for the whole of 2024, as recorded by the official Erophyt-Traces statistics, proves that the problems that operators in this country have had to control this disease are not temporary.
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