The Clipper Podcast Jens Breuer

Hello! The Clipper Podcast is back! Again we will bring you the best from the world of healthy natural food and snacks directly to your ears. The magazine took a little siesta of nearly three years and is coming back fresher than ever before. This time with amazing stories from ANUGA including a new nut, yes you heard that right….…courageous entrepreneurs from Ukraine who are want to turn backyard walnut trees into big business and…a Swiss company that starts using cocoa in a way you have not heard before….All this coming up October 18 in the Clipper Podcast. We wish you a happy day!


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Dear listeners, before I start I just want to thank  the brave people that have kept our food coming to the table. Consumers are not aware of the extra efforts and the risks many are taking every day to make sure the supply chain is working. With the Clipper Magazine and our podcast and our reporting we want to help you be successful in the future. Our home countries Switzerland and Germany have reopened their economies –we wish our friends and partners all over the world that you stay safe and your business is continuing to work and grow . Welcome to the Clipper Podcast. I had an interesting conversation with Santiago Tembras from Gastaldi in Argentina. He was giving a very good global view on the peanut business, the challenges of being a producer and exporter from Argentina. I learned a lot and I hope you do as well.

This is the Clipper Podcast, the newest addition to our journalism in the nuts and dried fruit industry. You can of course subscribe to the magazine and the smartphone edition at agropress.com. You can subscribe to the Podcast at Apple, Google and Spotify – most importantly you can be part of the conversation as a sponsor and communicate to our more than 48,000 readers, listeners, followers and friends in 89 countries. I hope to see and hear you soon, greetings from Switzerland!


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Welcome to Edition Number 10 of the Clipper Podcast for nuts and dried fruit. Interesting times and interesting topics. For our readers and our listeners we are currently preparing stories on how to do business in a very special situation – from online marketing to distancing in post-harvest and of course the changing patterns of consumption. First –

the topic in our magazine which you can subscribe to at agropress.com  - and you can sponsor our podcast which is now heard by an audience of more than 12,00 people all over the world, very important in a time without trade shows. Thank you, greetings from let us talk about hazelnuts. Did you know that the US is a major hazelnut exporter to China – how much do you now about hazelnut production in the US anyway? If you don’t, no problem, because I talked to Troy Johnson who is an expert, a consultant and a trader who is helping us understand hazelnuts from Oregon.

In Turkey the industry is very fragmented with an estimated 410,000 hazelnut producers. Can you tell me a bit about the structure of the business in Oregon?

Whenever I hear the words US China and agriculture I think about trade embargos and tariffs – maybe I am wrong. How are hazelnuts from the US dealing with it?

To many people in the nut business this sounds surprising, the fact that selling inshell to China from the US is so important instead of getting higher margins through processing and selling locally.

Water seems to be a growing concern for nut producers all over the world. How is the situation for Oregon hazelnut producers?

But you are upbeat about the prospects for the future.

Thank you for listening, I hope you learned a lot about Oregon hazelnuts. There is more on Switzerland and talk soon!


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This next interview is an important one because my guest talks about the future of sorting and post-harvest and he makes some interesting predictions. What are the benefits for the industry? Is this process making work easier in times of social distancing?

Quality control also depends on the people who are doing it – and the situation. The same quality control at the origin and the destination is done by different people and could provide different results. This is some great insight and I hope that the people involved in nuts and dried fruit processing are listening. Thank you for the very positive feedback we are getting for the podcast, only this week from Chile, Argetina, the US of course, Spain, Italy, Germany, France. If you want to see and read more about the industry just subscribe to our print edition. The Clipper has been reporting about nuts and dried fruit for over 40 years now.

Our newcomer is the Youtube channel and the high end inhouse video production . This week we have produced several recipes for   prunes with French chef Olivier Marchand. IF you are interested in promoting your brands and products on Youtube and Social Media just contact us – we know how it works. Greetings from Switzerland, I will talk to you next week!


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Let’s talk about hazelnuts. In our magazine we reported about the dramatic rise of the Georgian hazelnut industry – and the very dramatic downfall due to the stinkbug test which the country was not well prepared for. The Georgian industry has made a major effort since then. I wanted to know how it worked out, so I asked Merab Chitanava, Chairman of the Georgian Hazelnut Growers Association about it.

As you just heard there is still a way to reach your clients and your partners and share your stories, promote your brand and communicate with the nuts, snacks and dried fruit world – it is called the Clipper Magazine and the Podcast. You can book advertising or sponsorships directly at agropress.com or contact me. I hope you are safe. Don’t work too much. Talk soon from the Clipper Podcast, greetings from Switzerland.

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The food business is humming while others industries are idling. How do you can rry on with your operations during the pandemic. Can you close deals? Can you make presentations? We are looking at companies and brands who are getting inventive in difficult times.

I asked Thomas Molnar - VP, Head of Global Sales TOMRA Food Sorting about it. Manufacturers of big machinery are hit hard because they rely on physical presentations of their technology – on a trade show or at a demonstration site – no trade shows at the moment – and not travelling. So what do you do?

TOMRA isprobably the first in presenting its live showroom – and The Clipper is the first to report about it – and of course we wanted you to see how a virtual showroom feels. We recorded a presentation within a video conference. It is easy to set up and I can only encourage other industries to adopt these technologies. As a multimedia publishing house it is our job to help you with this. The video of TOMRA’s presentation is available on our Youtube Channel, please subscribe to get more videos from the nuts and dried fruit business all over the world.


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