WASHINGTON - Mar 2/04 - SNS -- Fruit and vegetable shipments and exports were summarized by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 2/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly fruit market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 2/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly vegetable market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 2/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly onion and potato market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRUSSELS - Mar 8/04 - SNS -- The European Union is reviewing banana import quotas to take into account the increase in the size of the confederation to 25 member states as of May 1. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 9/04 - SNS -- Fruit and vegetable shipments and exports were summarized by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 9/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly fruit market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 9/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly vegetable market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 9/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly onion and potato market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 10/04 - SNS -- Hawaii fresh papaya utilization is estimated at 2.82 million pounds for February, 23% lower than January and 25% below February 2003, according to the latest crop production estimates from the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 10/04 - SNS -- Steep declines in the quantity of lemons and tangelos produced this year more than offset gains in grapefruit, tangerine and temple output in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 10/04 - SNS -- The USDA lowered its orange harvest estimate 1% from last month to 13.2 million tons for the 2003-04 season, 14% above last season's final utilization. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SANTIAGO - Mar 10/04 - SNS -- Tomato paste production is expected to rebound in Chile this year as the industry responds to reported declines in tomato production in the northern hemisphere. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 11/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers are worried the disease citrus leprosis, a virus that substantially damaged Florida's orange crop early last century, could reappear in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 12/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers have found freeze drying specially formulated diets make it easier to get the Colorado potato beetle (CPB) to eat food containing biological control agents. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 12.04 - SNS -- The USDA plans to buy up to 6.9 million pounds of canned and frozen asparagus for donation to child nutrition and other domestic food assistance programs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRASILIA - Mar 12/04 - SNS -- Harvesting of this season's apple crop is now underway in Brazil and there is considerable optimism in the industry that production will reach a record 970,000 metric tons (MT), reports the U.S. agricultural attache here, for a 15% improvement on last year's result. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 15/04 - SNS -- USDA plant breeders have developed a new red seedless grape variety with a light, muscat flavor, which they hope consumers will respond to as an alternate flavor. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 15/04 - SNS -- Potato stocks maintained their recent upward trend, with March opening with 167 million cwt (100 pound units) of potatoes in storage in the 15 major producing states, up 1% from last year and 5% above 2002. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Potatoes Used for Processing . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Mar 16/04 - SNS -- Fruit and vegetable shipments and exports were summarized by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 16/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly fruit market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 16/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly vegetable market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 16/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly onion and potato market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 17/04 - SNS -- Members of the U.S.-based National Potato Promotion Board were named by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about Final U.S. Potato Production 1999 to 2002 . . . Subscribers Only

A table about Final U.S. Potato Crop by Season 1999 to 2002 . . . Subscribers Only

A table about Final U.S. Sweet Potato Crop 1999 to 2002 . . . Subscribers Only

A table about Final U.S. Taro Crop 1999 to 2002 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Mar 18/04 - SNS -- The USDA will pay closer attention to imported avocados in an effort to ensure imported product meets avocado import requirements under Section 8e of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Mar 18/04 - MFB -- Michigan asparagus growers have more than one reason to grin lately. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Apples in Coild Storage by State . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Mar 19/04 - SNS -- Stocks of fresh and frozen fruit were down from year earlier levels, according to the latest USDA report on product held in cold storage in the United States, while frozen juice supplies are up sharply. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 19/04 - SNS -- Stocks of frozen vegetables in cold storage in the United States dropped below month earlier and year earlier levels during February, while frozen potato supplies increased, according to the latest USDA report on agricultural commodities held in cold storage. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 23/04 - SNS -- Fruit and vegetable shipments and exports were summarized by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 23/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly fruit market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 23/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly vegetable market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 23/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly onion and potato market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VIENNA - Mar 24/04 - SNS -- Fruit production in Slovakia slipped 1% during 2003 to 80,405 metric tons (MT), with apple accounting for 63.6% of the total. Of the balance of the fruit trees: 10.7% are plum trees, 4.5% cherry trees and 4% walnut trees. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/04 - SNS -- Fruit and vegetable shipments and exports were summarized by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly fruit market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly vegetable market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/04 - SNS -- The latest weekly onion and potato market trend report was released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA Prices Paid for Fruit in March . . . Subscribers Only

A table about USDA Prices Paid for Vegetables in March . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Mar 31/04 - SNS -- Growers in the United States intend to plant 98,300 acres of sweet potatoes in 2004, up 3% from last year and 2% above 2002, according to the USDA seeding intentions report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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