Vegetable Handling News
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Purfresh Ramps Up Trials, Collaborates with Tastry for Data
The announcement comes as Purfresh Wine ramps up trials looking not just at ozone treatments for mitigating smoke issues, but at ozone’s potential for improving anthocyanin levels, rounding tannins, removing bacteria, or mold, etc. Purfresh Wine is now serving 25 wineries. “Over the last few years, we have had the privilege of working with extraordinary winemakers in an effort to ...
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What Does An Ultrasonic Ozone Fruit And Vegetable Washer Cleaning Machine Do To Your Fruits and Vegetables?
If you want to know more about ozone purifiers, you are on the right page. In this article, we are going to talk about ozone generators that can help you refine your fruits and vegetables. Apart from this, we will also find out how they can benefit your health. Read on to find out more. 1. Eliminates Harmful Pathogens Fruits and vegetables may contain pathogens that may cause a lot of health ...
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Brightplus and Natural Indigo Finland drive sustainable decorative colours
Brightplus is pleased to announce a long-term partnership with Natural Indigo Finland Oy – a supplier of sustainable ethically produced indigo colours from Finland. Natural Indigo Finland provides Brightplus with industrial side-streams for durable water-based decorative and protective coatings. With EU Green Deal regulations approaching, replacing synthetic colourants with natural ...
By Brightplus
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MAJOR Showcases New Amenity Machinery at UK Trade Shows
MAJOR to launch a trailed 7.3m (24’) Swift Rollermower at IOG Saltex 2019 (30-31 October) New CS Pro rotary deck for Compact tractors to debut at Holiday Park & Resort Innovation Show 2019 (6-7 November) Taking centre stage at Saltex 2019, the most important trade show for grounds maintenance and turf professionals, is the new 7.3m (24’) Swift Rollermower suitable for broad ...
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Business! Cold storage frozen vegetables have unlimited potential for future development
With the improvement of people's food safety awareness and consumer awareness, frozen vegetables will certainly be accepted by more and more people, and the market prospect is immeasurable. Quick-frozen vegetables are favored by the market because of their rich nutrition, seasonal restrictions, and convenient consumption. As a natural food that does not require any additives, quick-frozen ...
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Creating Gaseous Micro Environments for Packaged Produce to Maintain the Quality of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Food has often had a long and arduous journey before it reaches our plates, and creating gaseous micro environments ensures the preservation of food quality. In the United States, it is estimated that food typically travels between 1500 and 2500 miles1 between the farms where it is produced and the dinner table where it is ultimately consumed. What we think of as ‘fresh’ fruit and ...
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Vietnamese Fish Farmer Expands IPA System to Aquaponics
Vũ Thị Thắm is among the first intensive pond aquaculture (IPA) adopters in Northern Vietnam, learning the IPA concept from a seminar organized by USSEC and Cargill in Hưng Yên, Vietnam in August 2016. Ms. Tham constructed an IPA fixed floor raceway by following the instruction of Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, a technical manager at Cargill, who joined the ...
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A Letter from the Hawaii Agricultural Foundation and the Hawai`i Farm Bureau
As you know, recent cases of rat lungworm disease (RLWD) has garnered substantial public interest, and unfortunately, inaccurate and fearful misconceptions about the safety of locally grown and prepared foods. In response to numerous questions and requests for help, our organizations have been actively working with state agencies and the business community to support Hawaii's local food industry. ...
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Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture helps to improve greenhouse horticulture in Chile
Chile is a unique country: 4 000 km long, 17.6 million people of which more than five live in the capital Santiago. In the neighbouring province of Valparaiso (33 ° S) is located the main greenhouse horticulture region of Chile. The local government contracted the foundation Wageningen UR Chile to make a plan for an Innovation, Demonstration and Training Center. For this, Wageningen UR ...
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Simulated Seawater Flooding Decreases Growth of Vegetable Seedlings
Crop production in coastal areas is threatened by seawater intrusion, which increases soil salinity. Excessive salinity in soil and irrigation water, in combination with waterlogging, can significantly affect the growth and quality for agricultural crops, especially those vegetables that are sensitive to salinity. A new study determined salt-tolerant vegetable seedlings for coastal area ...
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Management Strategies to Reduce Catfacing in Peaches
For producers of peaches and other orchard-grown produce, managing the orchard floor can present challenges. Unwelcome vegetation on the orchard floor competes with trees for water and nutrients reducing tree growth and productivity, and can be a host for pathogens and insect pests. Utilizing best practices for irrigation and vegetation management in the orchard helps growers to optimize tree ...
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Rooftop gardens could grow three quarters of city’s vegetables
Rooftop gardens in cities could provide more than three quarters of the vegetables consumed in them, a case study from Bologna, Italy, suggests. If all suitable flat roof space was used for urban agriculture, rooftop gardens in the city could supply around 12 500 tons of vegetables a year whilst also providing a range of ecosystem services, the researchers say. Any unused roof space in a city ...
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Six months after disaster, Philippine farmers bring in the harvest
Tens of thousands of farmers are bringing in their first rice harvest just six months after one of the worst typhoons to ever hit the Philippines left their fields in tatters and their livelihoods at risk, FAO announced today. After Typhoon Haiyan hit the central Philippines on 8 November, 2013, the situation was dire. More than 6,000 people lost their lives, while some 600,000 hectares of ...
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Victoria to host veggie roadshow
Victorian vegetable growers will have their say on a range of issues affecting the vegetable industry, at a series of free levy payer meetings to be held next week as part of a nationwide Regional Roadshow by AUSVEG and Horticulture Australia Limited. Two meetings will be held in the state’s principal vegetable growing regions, with the first taking place in Werribee on Monday 17 March at ...
By AUSVEG
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As a Fruit Grower or Packer, can you make money from your waste? Absolutely!
The commercial growing and packing sector will be intimately familiar with the quantity of waste produced during the processing of the various fruits and vegetables they handle. The ultimate destination of this waste is what is changing. Landfill, animal feed, recycling and now Anaerobic Digestion are all destinations for the waste from this sector. Landfill used to account for a large ...
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U.S. foodservice acquires waste vegetable oil processing company to reduce environmental impact of trucking fleet
U.S. Foodservice, one of America's leading foodservice distributors, has purchased the assets of WVO Industries of Bluffton, S.C. WVO collects and removes water, food particles and other impurities from waste vegetable oil then ships the bio feedstock to a processing company that produces an 80/20 diesel/biodiesel blend known as B20 that will be used to fuel hundreds of food delivery trucks at ...
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