With the Salinas Valley quality ridden lettuce season mercifully ending and Huron approaching it brief fall shipping season, lettuce loadings get underway next week from the desert regions of Arizona and California. Volume is expected to be light through November.
Meanwhile, lettuce shipments from Huron in the San Joaquin Valley continue with good quality product. This area will pretty much be finished by the end of the month.
The Salinas is still shipping limited amounts of lettuce, but beware of widespread quality problems due to disease and mildew and untimely rains.
Oxnard also is loading lettuce in limited volume. Quality is reported good.
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