Monday, December 19, 2011
Final shipments of fresh produce for the upcoming Christmas weekend are now taking place, especially for loadings taking place the farthest from destination. For example lettuce shipments, along with mixed veggies such as broccoli and cauliflower and now coming out of the Yuma District of Arizona, as well as the nearby Imperial Valley in the Southern Desert of C”alifornia….In the Northwest, apples from the Yakima Valley are moving in good volume….Inn the mid-west, there are russet potatoes coming out of Central Wiscosin, apples from Western Michigan, and in the Southeast, cabbage and greens from Southern Georgia…In the Northeast, there’s steady loadings of apples from the Hudson Valley of New York.
Imperial Valley veggies – grossing about $6,300 to New York.
Michigan apples – $2,400 to Atlanta
Eastern North Carolina sweet potatoes – $2750 to Boston