The San Joaquin Valley in California has been experiencing a warm winter so far this year. Chilling hours necessary for tree fruit production are the lowest they have been in more than ten years. Poor chilling during the fall and winter months tends to lead to poor fruit set and quality in the spring and […]
Archives for January 2015
Frozen Strawberry Inventory
The USDA Cold Storage report for December showed frozen strawberry inventory to be much lower at the end of the season in 2014 than it has been in the past five years. Every category of frozen strawberries showed lower volumes. The last time inventory levels were this low was in 2006, but the volume of […]
California Strawberry Acreage
The California Strawberry Commission 2015 Acreage Survey was recently released. It shows that California strawberry growers have reduced their fall plantings by nearly 2,000 acres statewide versus the previous year. This is the lowest acreage since 2008. Southern California acreage declined by nearly 900 acres, Santa Maria by over 500 acres, and Watsonville / Salinas […]
California Cling Peach Pricing
The California Canning Peach Association board ratified a price increase for cling peaches in December that sets the highest price ever received by growers for ‘A’ grade cling peaches. The dollar increase from last year is the greatest jump in prices in a single year in the history of the crop as well. The agreement […]