![]() With melon quality high, good time to promote (The following information is from Pro*Act's Aug. 18 Market Report.)
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With the slowing demand and production still high, inventories are up again to start this week. There has been some 100-plus-degree heat in California's Central Valley's melon growing regions over the last four to six days, and there is some slight softness showing up in the cantaloupes. Otherwise, expect quality to remain very good and sugar levels to remain high as slightly cooler weather settles in over the next few days. Honeydews: The markets are on the floor, and some shippers are even going below packing costs to help move inventories. There are some deals out there at very cheap prices and with volume to move, so let's keep moving fruit, especially when quality is as good as it is right now.
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ARUGULA & CILANTRO -- A light volume of products with fair to good quality due to hail effects. BABY SPINACH & BABY ARUGULA -- Harvesting in good quantity with good quality. Not as affected by the heat. BASIL -- Harvesting fair to good quality product in fair volume due to hail. BEETS -- Harvesting fair to good quality product in fair to good quantity. CABBAGE -- Harvesting good quality product in good volume. CANTALOUPES & MELONS -- Harvesting in light volume and fair quality due to hail effects. COLLARDS -- Harvesting good quality in good volume. CUCUMBERS/PICKLES -- Harvesting a light quantity of fair to good quality product due to hail. DANDELION -- Good quality spring-planted San Pasquale variety available. DILL -- Harvesting very good quality in good volume. EGGPLANT -- Harvesting fair to good quality in fair to good volume. KALE -- Very good quantity and quality of product available. LEEKS & GREEN ONIONS -- A good volume of good quality product is available. MINT -- Harvesting fair to good quality in fair to good quantity. Likes the heat. NECTARINES -- A fair volume of good quality Fantasia variety fruit will be available for another week or so. Finishing up. PARSLEY -- Fair to good quality product available in light to fair quantities. PEACHES -- Harvesting fair to good quantities of yellow and white peaches after the hail of Aug. 10. Yellow Bounty varieties are finishing, while Cresthaven varieties come on. White Lady variety white peaches are finishing, with Klondike and Snow Giant harvesting next. A glut of Southern and California peaches is keeping prices down. PEPPERS -- Harvesting fair to good quality in light volume due to hail on Aug. 10. SQUASH -- Harvesting light to fair quantities of fair to good quality yellow and Zucchini due to hail on Aug. 10. Some growers are re-planting for a fall harvest. SWEET CORN -- Harvesting good quality in good quantity until Labor Day. SWISS CHARD -- A light to decreasing volume of good quality product available. TOMATOES -- Harvesting fair to good quality in light to fair volume due to hail. TURNIPS -- Harvesting good quality and fair quantity. Likes cooler temperatures. WHITE POTATOES -- Harvesting mainly round white varieties, with some Yukon Gold and Redskin varieties as well. |
August 20, 2008
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![]() ![]() LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Honduras offers opportunities for foreign investors By John Groh Recently, I toured Honduras at the invitation of the country's Foundation for Investment & Export Development, better known by its acronym, FIDE.
Yes, a crocodile farm. A busy five days indeed, but a wholly enriching time that enlightened me about all this Central American nation, which is about the size of Tennessee and sits 1,000 miles southwest of Miami, has to offer. With seaports on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean and a varied terrain that results in a host of microclimates, Honduras is looking to raise its profile in the spectrum of global agriculture. As such, it is seeking to attract foreign investments, especially from the United States, which it considers a key trading partner and an important element in its quest for development.
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Valerie Grenier balances family with her produce career That is not because the 29-year-old does not like them; quite the contrary, she has an unlimited supply of them at her disposal at her job. Ms. Grenier is the sales and marketing director at Les Serres du St.-Laurent, recognized throughout Quebec by its "Savoura" label and renowned for its premium greenhouse-grown tomatoes. She was promoted in May to her current position at Savoura after spending seven years as its principal accounts manager, a position she took after finishing her degree in food sciences at Laval University in January 2001. |