We are well into spring with melon loadings and summertime means peak shipments.
Here’s a round up from a few shippers on what they are expecting in the weeks and months ahead.
Pacific Trellis Fruit/Dulcinea Farms, Los Angeles is starting the season with three different labels of melons, Pure Sweetness, Pure Sunshine and Pure Crunch. The company also will be shipping mini seedless watermelon, known as PureHearts. The firm grows organic and conventional full-size seedless watermelons called Sugar Daddy.
It also has a Tuscan Style extra-sweet cantaloupe and a great-tasting yellow mini seedless watermelon called SunnyGold.
Dixondale Farms in Carrizo Springs, TX, may be known for growing onions, but it also has the Navigator cantaloupe from early June until mid-July. It has been shipping the Navigator for nearly 30 years.
The company has significant production areas in Arizona and California.
MAS Melons & Grapes of Rio Rico, AZ has been shipping honeydews and watermelons since the company was started 28 years ago. It transitioned its melon program from the states of Colima and Nayarit in central Mexico to Sonora in the north in early April and has good volume.