Prep Football Playoff Roundup: No. 3 Springville hammers No. 19 Spanish Fork

1 / 7 Spanish Fork's Poponatui Sitake (right) tries to break the tackle of Springville's Stafford Small in a 5A football state second round playoff game on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. Harold Mitchell, Special to the Herald 2 / 7 Spanish Fork's Taima...

Spain begins the avocado season with a 20% to 30% production growth forecast

The Spanish Avocado and Mango Inter-Branch Organization (OIAM) announces the start of the Spanish avocado season with an optimistic outlook. After several years of drought, production is expected to increase by 20% to 30% over last year. This...

China, Spain, and the Netherlands are the leading global exporters of fruit and vegetables

In 2024, global exports of fresh fruit and vegetables reached 148 million tonnes. The leading exporters were China with 13.4 million tons, Spain with 12 million tons, and the Netherlands with 11.4 million tons, according to data from the United...

FAO honours 28 Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems across 14 countries

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today marked a milestone celebrating 28 sites across 14 countries that have been designated as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) over the past two years. The...

El Pirata, Mayfair: a slice of Spain in central London

Tucked away on a quiet Mayfair side street, El Pirata has long been one of London’s worst-kept secrets — a genuine slice of Spain that has resisted the tides of trend-chasing dining. With its rustic interiors, bustling energy, and walls lined with...

Cabo de Gata: a hidden gem on southern Spain's Almeria coast

Friday, 31 October 2025, 13:26 Share If you are looking for beaches that take you further than Malaga province's coastline, then it's worth taking a day trip to the east of Andalucía. Cabo de Gata is a stunning nature reserve, with gorgeous rocky...

Spain's brassica and leafy vegetable exports overlap with the last European productions

The heat has sped up the growth of brassica and leafy vegetable crops in Spain's main production areas, whose exports have not yet taken off due to the supply still available in central and northern European countries. However, the transition to...

Spain seizes 20 tons of hashish in pepper shipments

The Spanish National Police have seized 20 tons of hashish concealed inside boxes of green peppers in refrigerated trucks arriving from Morocco. Authorities described the operation, carried out with Morocco's General Directorate for National...

Spanish Horror Series ‘Dime Tu Nombre’ Debuts On Prime Video For Halloween

Michelle Jenner, Darío Grandinetti, Younes Bouab and Iyad Bennis star in the supernatural thriller "Dime Tu Nombre." Prime Video Just in time for Halloween, a new original horror series from Spain lands on Prime Video that will ​be sure​ to creep...

Spain defends EU-Morocco agreement, says Sahrawi consent is implicit

Spain’s Secretary General for the European Union at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Moreno, defended the new EU-Morocco agreement on Tuesday, saying the consent of the Sahrawi people “can be understood as implicit,” according to Spanish...

Spain's Costa Tropical is 'moving forwards' but has not yet 'reached its full potential'

Thursday, 30 October 2025, 18:01 Share Granada province's Costa Tropical in southern Spain is at a crucial moment and the authorities are looking towards the future. With this in mind the provincial newspaper Ideal took the initiative in July to...

Spain Welcomes 600,000 Legal Immigrants This Year

2025 has seen a total of 600,000 immigrants arriving in Spain—more than half a million new residents added to the 571,000 recorded in 2024. This represents a 50% increase over the forecast by the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility...

FARM: Farmworkers set fear aside to pick California bounty

Harvest for many of California’s specialty crops has wound down, with fields turning from green to brown, ladders carted away and packinghouse lines brought to a halt. Going into the year, farmers warned that the Trump administration’s mass...

Spain Sets Surplus Mechanism for Olive Oil, Giving Mills and Packers a Tool to Curb Swings

Summary Spain’s Ministry of Agriculture has approved a new mech­a­nism for tem­po­rary with­drawals of olive oil from the mar­ket in sur­plus years to pre­vent price col­lapses, pro­vid­ing a for­mal tool for pro­duc­ers, coop­er­a­tives, and...

Searching for motorbiking perfection in the Spanish Picos mountains

This is not where I want to be. I’m sitting in a BMW motorbike dealership less than 100 miles into a seven-day tour of Spain and Portugal, waiting for a service advisor to potentially deliver this holiday’s death sentence. Two hours prior to this...

"Spanish vegetables have been grown with an average delay of two to three weeks, but quality is better"

There have been delays in the start of the vegetable season in Almeria, mainly due to the heat, and growers are looking to avoid the higher incidence of pests for this same reason. Those temperatures have also extended the European seasons,...

Rescue Cork fishing industry from 'devastating' quota cut, councillors demand

Cork County Councillors have demanded government intervention following the announcement of a proposed 70% cut to Ireland's mackerel fishing quota. At a meeting of Cork County Council today, Independent Ireland Cllr Danny Collins warned that the...

Stolt Sea Farm breaks ground on new processing and research center

Rianxo, Spain-based aquaculture company Stolt Sea Farm has broken ground on a new 21,500-square-meter food-processing and research and development center, which will employ more than 100 people. The facility will package whole sole and value-added...

48th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

The 48th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission will be held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy 10–14 November. The plenary sessions will be webcast in all six UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). The plenary...

Apples may get all the glory, but cabbage remains foundational to New York agriculture

Betsy Brightly’s daughter plays college basketball alongside some team members from Spain. The foreign students don’t like coleslaw — or they thought they didn’t. Then Betsy made them a homemade batch. “They love it,” Brightly said. “I have to...