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Light to moderate loading opportunities are available from Texas to North Dakota. Grapefruit and Oranges are coming out of the the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, while sweet potatoes are coming from Louisiana and Mississippi…In Wisconsin, the Stevens Point area is shipping potatoes in good volume, while fair volume with onions is available from Northeastern Colorado….In the Red River Valley red potatoes in North Dakota storages down 10% from a year ago and off 5% in Minnesota.
South Texas Citrus – grossing about $2,000 to St. Louis
NE Colorado onions – $1700 to Dallas
Red River Valley Potatoes – $1800 to Chicago
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Some of the sweetest red table grapes ever have been coming out California’s San Joaquin Valley, but unfortunately volume is now in a steady decline, although there’s still about a 1,000 truck loads a week available….California strawberriy shipments from the Oxnard and Santa Maria districts are slowy increasing…In Washington state, about 300 truck load equivlaents of Columia Basin potates are moving weekly….Idaho russett potatoes are averaging arouind 1,200 truck load equivalents and easily lead U.S. spud volume….There is light volume of Mexican melons and veggies crossing the border at Nogales, AZ, with good volume not expected until mid January.
San Joaquin Valley grapes – grossing about $6700 to New York
Idaho potatoes – $5400 to Orlando
Columbia Basin potatoes – $5100 to Dallas
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
San Joaquin Valley table grapes shipments should continue into December and they are certainly sweet this late in season, making for great eating. Over 97 million 19-pound boxes are expected to be shipped from last May to the end of this year. Other fall fruit available for loadings range from apples and pears to persimmons, pomegranates and figs…. Fall nut shipments have already started for the approaching holidays. Loadings are expected to be pretty normal for items ranging from almonds to pecans and walnuts…Southern California kiwifruit shipments started about 3 weeks ago, with normal loadings expected to hit nearly 9 million trays for the season…Fall cantaloupe acreage has increased in California from 4,500 to 4,700 acres this fall over last year, but the fear of the listeria contamination of Colorado cantaloupes still is having an adverse affect; more on that later this week.
- San Joaquin Valley fruit: About $7,300 to Boston.
- Salinas Valley veggies: About $4,400 to Chicago.
Following record loadings of Washington state apple shipments last season, the new crop is expected to be in the 109-million-carton-range, only slightly down from a year ago. Northwest apple shipments got off to a slower start this season, with a similar situation occurring in the East from areas such as Pennsylvania and upstate New York – primarily due to weather factors. This resulted in Michigan apples loadings being hot and heavy as their shipments started on time. With both coasts getting their volume on track, pressure on Midwest shipments have eased a bit. Washington expects its Red Delicious, Gala and Granny Smith apple varieties to be about the same in volume this season, with Fuji volume to be off about 9%. Washington State is easily the nation’s largest shipper of apples. Volume continues to build and loadings out of the Yakima and Wenatchee Valleys are hitting around 2,000 truck loads equivalents per week. By contrast, Michigan shippers are loading about 300 truck loads per week, with upstate New York having similar volume.
- Washington state apples: About $4,200 to Chicago; $6,400 to New York City
- Western Michigan Apples: About $1,600 to Atlanta.
- Eastern New York Apples: About $1,000 to Dallas-Ft. Worth.