Season
Where what we eat comes from, and who gets paid along the way.
California fig season holds steady at 10m pounds
The Emerald variety is generating the buzz, but growers say labour, water and packing costs have climbed sharply since last year's harvest.
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Hatch chile harvest falls short after pest damage
Leaf miners and unusually warm nights have cut New Mexico's signature chile crop by 20 to 50 percent, and some packers have stopped taking fresh-market lots.
Peru blueberry exports cut again as El Niño strengthens
Proarándanos now expects 382,000 tonnes for 2026-27, 6% below its August figure, as Peru's forecasters see an extraordinary coastal El Niño lasting into 2027.
Alba white truffle season opens at record prices
Prices are averaging €1,853 a kilogram this season, setting up an expensive run into the region's 96th truffle fair, which opens in October and runs into December.
Norwegian mackerel season slows as the quota cut bites
Weekly landings fell from 23,000 to 4,082 tonnes as the fleet works a sharply reduced quota and British retailers swap Atlantic mackerel for cheaper jack mackerel in tins.
Pomme du Limousin opens harvest as orchards shrink
Growers began picking Pomme du Limousin apples on September 7, in a Haute-Vienne region that has lost more than half its protected orchards in twenty years.
France wine harvest 2026 set for lowest level since 1957
Hail, heatwaves and drought have pushed national output below 34 million hectolitres, with Champagne and Burgundy hit hardest while Bordeaux gains.
Austria's 2026 wine harvest shrinks to a decade low
Austria's wine-growers association reports its smallest harvest since 2010, after a hot, dry summer sped up ripening across the country's vineyards.
Chianti Classico Expo brings 64 wineries to Greve
The 54th Expo Chianti Classico fills Greve's main square through 13 September, pouring Sangiovese from every corner of the zone just as the harvest gets under way in the surrounding hills.
Alba white truffle fair runs from 10 October to 6 December
The 96th edition opens the season in Piedmont with nine weekends of market trading, a quality commission on the tables and the charity auction on 8 November.
Olive oil prices sit low as Spain's next crop wobbles
Extra virgin is trading around four euros a kilo at origin while early field data points to a sharp fall in flowering fertility for the 2026/27 harvest.
North Sea in September, sole up and plaice under question
Sole advice is up 16.4% for 2026, skippers say the plaice numbers do not match the nets, and Zeeland mussels are back after the worst season of the century.
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