Over 30 different fruits and vegetables are produced in Georgia each year, and growers are very optimistic about this summer shipping season.
The Georgia Department of Agriculture reports blueberries, peaches, watermelons and sweet corn are all looking good.
Corbett Brothers Farms LLC of Lake Park, GA shipped watermelon and sweet corn for the first time last year and have them again this summer and loadings get underway on May 20 and continue until July 4.
The company has already started harvesting squash, cucumbers, bell pepper and specialty peppers and wi eggplant. The summer season will end around the Fourth of July, and the fall season will kick off in early September with the same commodities.
Bland Farms of Glennville, GA finished its Vidalia onion harvest in early May and has planting Sand Candy sweet potatoes in Georgia and North Carolina. It now has a year around sweet potato program.
When the Vidalia sweet onion season ends in August, Bland Farms will transition to its Peru premium sweet onion program, which will last through February. Then, the sweet onion seaspm will move to Mexico.
The company also sources sweet onions from Nevada and California.
Shuman Farms of Reidsville, GA will ship Vidalia onions through Labor Day
Markon Cooperative of Salinas, CA has released these “Live from the Fields” reports on South Georgia cucumbers and squash May 15, 2025:
- Harvesting is ramping up for cucumbers in south Georgia
- MFC Cucumbers are available in various pack sizes
- Quality is very good; supplies are ample
- Supplies are expected to remain available through mid-June
View a Markon “Live from the Fields” video regarding Markon First Crop (MFC) Zucchini and Yellow Squash currently being packed out of the South Georgia growing region.
- Harvesting is ramping up for various dry vegetable crops in Southern Georgia
- MFC Zucchini, and Yellow Squash are available in various pack sizes
- Quality is very good; supplies are ample
- Recent rain and thunderstorms had little or no impact on production
- Supplies are expected to remain available through mid-June *****
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