Even with the recent lower estimates for Northwest cherry shipments, it is still being considered a decent amount of loadings. The best volume should occur through about Aug. 10.
Frost in the Northwest during April and heavy rains at the end of May reduced the initial season estimate of 18 million boxes to 16-17 million boxes.
By the end of June, that estimate was due for another downward adjustment. What was once a 17-million-box crop no longer exists. Shipments are now estimated to be down to as low as 13 to 16 million boxes.”
About 23 million boxes of cherries were shipped from the Northwest last year.
Blueberry loadings are picking up in both Washington state and Oregon….Washington state continues to ship late season apples from the Yakima and Wenachee Valleys.
The Walla Walla district in Washington is shipping onions, with volume increasing in the new season. A similar situation with onions is occurring from the Columbia Basin and Umatilla Basin along the Washington/Oregon border. The state line area also is shipping potatoes in light volume.
In Idaho, potatoes are averaging about 1,750 truckload equivalents a week, although a significant percentage of those spuds are being loaded in rail cars.
Idaho potatoes – grossing about $5500 to New York City.
Washington State cherries – about $6700 to New York City.