Quality: Conventional and organic fruit quality is good.
Volume: Production has now entered in a post-peak phase, and estimates will continue to steadily drop week over week until a much more significant drop happens in towards late November. This week’s drops were due to the colder weather and the change in the general production curve as we enter the late Fall season.
Pack Counts: Conventional fall crop 16-24. Organic fall crop, 24-30.
Quality: Conventional and organic quality is good with nice sheen, small-to-medium size, strong red color, and good flavor.
Volume: Overall production is low, and we are taking production week by week; for now, they are still in, but any kind of weather event can end the season here.
Pack Counts: Conventional 26-28; Organic 30-34 depending on ranch.
Region Update: Fruit are the first scratch picks of the mud crop and are seeing small and misshapen fruit. Quality is expected to increase week after week.
Region Update: Production has begun and we are expecting good volume to increase week over week through November and into December. Initial counts are 18-26 a clamshell. Fruit looks good with occasional green tips and small-to-medium sizing.
Quality: Conventional and organic quality is good with minor occurrences of shrivel and leaky fruit.
Volume: Volumes are steady.
Quality: Conventional quality is great with minor occurrences of shrivel and leaky fruit.
Volume: Volumes are steady.
Quality: Organic quality is great with minor occurrences of shrivel and leaky fruit.
Volume: Volumes are light.
Quality: Overall, fruit is looking good with a strong red color, new varieties sizes and firmness look good.
Volume: Volume for raspberries is staying steady through November.
Quality: Overall, color is a nice dark red color due to the warm temperatures underneath the hoops and sizing of rasps are a good medium size on average.
Volume: Overall production volume has taken a steep cut—season could be ending soon in the next week or two.
Quality: Quality is fair but improving.
Volume: Volume for blackberries is steady for the rest of the year.
Quality: Quality is fair. Attached calyx and red cell regression is a continual occurrence and are seeing some issues of smaller fruit.
Volume: Overall production volume has taken a steep cut as we enter a low of the season.
October 8 – 10th
Seattle, WA
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