The California strawberry fresh market has had a slow down of production in April this year. The normal jump in volume expected from March to April only increased slightly over what it traditionally does. The month of March this year was the largest volume month for March of the past three years, but the first […]
Archives for April 2015
California Peach and Nectarine
The first stone fruit of the season in the Fresno California area is being packed currently. The quality has been very good on the first few varieties, but the fruit size is down a little from where it was last year. The season started out a day later than last year. The volume of fruit […]
Strawberry Cold Storage
The USDA Cold Storage Report that came out today shows an inventory position of solid pack frozen strawberry items being smaller in 2015 than in the previous four years. California processors had received around 40 million pounds of #1 grade fruit by the end of March this year, and most of that would have been […]
California Cherry 4-22-2015
The California cherry crop looks to be less than 50% full this year according to some estimates. Early estimates put the crop at 5.6 million boxes this year. This follows a short crop last year. California has the potential to produce 12 million boxes, but the past few years have been difficult ones. The warm […]
California Apricot
The California apricot crop is set very light this year. The lack of chill hours this past winter appears to have affected the apricot crop. The consensus is for about 50% of an average crop. The processing price has not been set yet. It will most likely be set above the $500 per ton price […]
