Quality: Quality looks great, with some instances of bruising and dry calyxes.
Volume: Production is looking good for conventional and organic fruit, with our estimates doubling each week as we approach the expected peak of the season sometime in June.
Pack Counts: Conventional: 8-14; Organic: 12-18;
Quality: Quality remains good, with good flavor, bloom and appearance, although we are seeing some issues with redberries, soft and leaking fruit, and shriveling from the high heat.
Volume: Conventional volume in Mexico is trending down each week, and we are expecting the conventional blue season to end towards July. Organic production will begin again around August.
Quality: Conventional quality remains good, with good flavor, bloom and appearance.
Volume: Production is at the tail-end of the peak of this season’s production curve. Estimates have been stunted down about 30%-50% of initial estimates due to previous weather events (hurricanes, storms, and heatwaves) that have greatly reduced our overall expected volume for the year.
Quality: Organic blues’ quality looks great, with great size, flavor, and bloom.
Volume: We have passed our peak here, and will have a quick and steady decline in production here until the season ends towards the end of May.
Quality: Organic blues’ production and quality continues to look great, with great size, flavor, and bloom.
Volume: Similar to Florida estimates continue to be stunted down about 30%-50% of initial estimates due to previous weather events.
Quality: Quality is great, with great size, flavor, and bloom.
Volume: Organic production is doubling each week, with peak organic production coming in two weeks, and lasting through mid-June. Conventional production is still a bit slow, but will have a good jump in volume starting in the next week, and continue to double as we approach our peak conventional production in mid-May.
Region Update: Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia production will begin around July.
Quality: Overall, fruit is looking good with a strong red color, sizes and firmness.
Volume: Volume for raspberries is in a dip, but volume should start increasing steadily from now through May.
Quality: Quality is good.
Volume: Volume for blackberries is consistent, but we are in a dip in production from pruning over the last week.
October 8 – 10th
Seattle, WA
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