The Clipper Podcast

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...

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 h...

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 subscri...

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...

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 i...

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 re...

Welcome to the Clipper Podcast for nuts and dried fruit. We have several thousand listeners now for every episode – I want to thank our audience for this great loyalty. What is happening in the nuts and dried fruit trade at the moment – and what do you expect for the future? We asked Juergern Wermuth, owner at the Swiss trading house Sanfrut about his company and his view of the current situation...

Welcome to the Clipper Podcast for nuts and dried fruit. We have several thousand listeners now for every episode – I want to thank our audience for this great loyalty. What is happening in the nuts and dried fruit trade at the moment – and what do you expect for the future? We asked Juergern Wermuth, owner at the Swiss trading house Sanfrut about his company and his view of the current situation...

Agriculture goes home office! In the next days we will ask our partners and friends around the world how that actually works. Remember: In times where trade shows are cancelled magazines like ours are your trade show. Here you can talk about your business, get in touch with buyers and partners. We will help you present your products to an audience on seven continents. Contact us on Linkedin to fin...

Welcome to the Clipper Podcast for nuts and dried fruit. This year will be different – travel, trade, business and of course industry events. We can expect some of the major trade shows and conferences to be canceled or to have a lot less visitors. But even if travel and promoting your products will be harder on trade shows this year – there is still the Clipper Magazine and the podcast, where you...

Welcome to the Clipper Podcast. This time we will talk about climate change. And we will start with Martin Brook from Brook Farms in Australia who sounded very worried when I spoke to him on the phone…We will come back to Martin Brook who is a very special macadamia farmer, with his now famous macadamia gin and a rainforest on his farm. Our next topic is prunes and climate change.  The annual...

Welcome to the Clipper Podcast ! Everybody loves prunes – or is it dried plums? Well, that is the question. There was some confusion in the past by consumers – and why two names for one product. We asked Donn Zea about it – He is executive director of the California Prune Board. He knows something about prunes vs. dried plums. ‚The Clipper Magazine’ is the market leader for independent global info...

Georgia experienced a nightmare as hazelnut producer and exporter in the last three years. As a consequence, some smart entrepreneurs started growing almonds for export We talked to one of the pioneers - Vakhtang Gogaladze how it all started. ‚The Clipper Magazine’ is the market leader for independent global information about nuts and dried fruit: Production and Consumption trends, science and tec...

Fermenting nuts: The next hype? Preserving food using microorganisms has been around since we started cooking. In Iceland, people famously eat fermented shark. In Sardinia, they're huge fans of a cheese that's teeming with maggots. Most modern fermented foods are a little less intense than those, and definitely more consistently delicious. But since the Industrial Revolution, people have been...

The biggest macadamia grower in the world, making money with electricity for nut farmers,  the future of quality control, the Trump effect.  We recently visited the Australian not conference which is an interesting way to meet all members of the nut industry. There we met Phill Zadro, Entrepreneur in the Macadamia business who started his career as a hobby.  Nut Exports from Austral...