Quality: Most fruits are displaying a vibrant full red color and a round, conical shape. Some creasing and minor tip defects have lingered, but they’re less prevalent than in recent weeks. Quality is expected to remain steady with favorable weather on the horizon.
Volume: Production has entered the peak of the Spring Crop season.
Pack Counts: 18-22;
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:10-16; Organic: 12-16;
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: While production is in the peak of this season’s production curve, estimates continue to be stunted down about 30%-50% of initial estimates due to previous weather events.
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.
Region Update: Organic production is quickly ramping up, with peak production coming in May and lasting through mid-June. Conventional scratch pickings will begin around early 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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