More New York State Vegetable Loads are Starting

More New York State Vegetable Loads are Starting

New York ranks among the top five states in shipments of fresh fruits and vegetables.   Produce shippers are located in many different regions of the state.  Since New York is over 300 miles wide from East to West this covers a lot of territory.  We’ll be covering apples soon, but right now we’ll focus on vegetable shipments, which are underway.

For example items are available for hauling such as cabbage, beans, squash, cucumbers and potatoes from shippers in the Rochester, as well as Buffalo, NY areas.  Such operations are located near small agriculture communities such as Elba located just west of Rochester, as well as Marion just east of Rochester,  and Eden found south of Buffalo. 

Cabbage is a big item near the towns of  Holley and Stanley, NY.

Orange County New York has a number of large onion shippers.  Shipments are expected to get underway around the third week of August.

A primary destination for New York produce shipments, of course, is the Hunts Point Terminal Wholesale Market in New York City, although loads are also destined to a number of other major cities ranging from Boston to Philadelphia and Atlanta, among others.