National Produce Loadings

As the seasonal light to moderate winter produce loadings continue, California remains your best bet.  There’s items ranging from strawberries to avocados in Southern California.  In the desert, mixed vegetables ranging from lettuce to cauliflower, broccoli and celery are being shipped.  One cautionary note:  Excessive supplies of vegetables have led to a glut in the market due in part  because of a mild West Coast winter.  If any weather event on the East Coast that ma occur,  compounds the problem as receivers don’t want trucks stuck in snow, ice etc. with a load of perishable produce.

In the Gulf Coast area, there is Texas cabbage coming out of the Winter Garden District just south of San Antonio.  Further south in the Lower Rio Grande Valley there is citrus and mixed veggies, plus crossings of numerous items from Mexico….In nearby Louisiana and Mississippi, sweet potatoes continue to be shipped….In the east, there are sweet potatoes loading from North Carolina.  On some days there’s been a shortage of trucks in NC, but this may be in part due to sweet potatoes not being known to get a very good freight rate.

Light to moderate apple shipments are coming from the Applachian District of Pennsylvania, Maryland and  Virginia.  Apples are being shipped from New York’s Hudson Valley, as well as central and western parts of the state….The new crop of red potatoes from South Florida are now being shipped.

California desert vegetables – grossing about $5400 to New York City.

Mississippi sweet potatos – $1700 to Detroit.

South Texas and Mexico produce – $2100 to Atlanta.

Central New York apples – $1600 to Baltimore.