Here’s a shipping update on three companies in the Western U.S.
Peppers Plus LLC of Rio Rico, AZ began shipping peppers December 1st, and will continue shipping Mexican vegetables into the spring.
While the company will continue shipping green, red, yellow and orange blocky Bell peppers, it has discontinued shipping mesh-house bells. Meanwhile the operation increased from 100 to 112 acres of peppers this season.
Peppers Plus also is shipping hard shell squash and will continue until about June 1st. Peppers should wrap up in mid May. The company has been expanding its growing operation on average of 10 to 15 percent per year.
Fresh Farm is Shipping
Fresh Farms’ winter vegetable program “will be up ten percent for every item,
The operation has been shipping green Bell peppers, pickles, eggplant and hard squash since mid November and should continue with good volume until May.
The firm’s English cucumbers will be shipped until mid-April.
Fresh Farms’ green bean shipping started earlier this month and was soon followed by yellow and bi-colored sweet corn.
The company’s organic program this season includes zucchini, yellow, butternut and spaghetti squash, as well as American and English cucumbers and green beans.
Sunions
Shipments of Sunion onions has got underway in its second season.
Sunions, a long-day sweet onion variety grown in Washington and Nevada, was developed by Nunhems Vegetable Seeds and is distributed by Generation Farms of Lake Park, GA; Onions 52 LLC of Syracuse, UT and Peri & Sons Farms Inc. of Yerington, NV.
Unlike other long-day onions, Sunions actually become sweeter and tearless in storage, according to a news release.
Sunions are released for sale using a certification process that includes a sensory panel with the authority to determine Sunions ship dates, and the panel uses three separate tests for both flavor and tearlessness before releasing Sunions for shipping.