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California Fresh Market Stone Fruit 5-25-2016

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California stone fruit has been packed and sold for the past few weeks. The size of the crop seems to be good. Varieties are picking out close to their estimates overall. Fruit size seems to be smaller this year, and the selling price for fresh market stone fruit has been a little weak recently. Overall […]

California Stone Fruit 3-31-2016

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The stone fruit crop in California is progressing well. The storms that impacted California over the past month seem to have left no damaging affect on the crops. The set looks good for almost every type of variety in the state. The main challenge some growers are facing is the need for labor to thin […]

California Stone Fruit

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The California fresh market peach and nectarine crop is coming up on some of the first large volume varieties of the season. The fruit varieties packed so far have had good quality, but are noticeably smaller in size. The fruit sugars seem to be a little higher this year, and the fruit seems to be […]

First Bloom 

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The first stone fruit varieties to bloom in the greater Fresno area are currently out. The bloom this year is mostly uniform block by block, but some blocks are out sooner or later by a few days than they were last year. Low chill hours don’t seem to have had an impact on the uniformity […]

California Chill Hours

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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 […]