“These growing areas give us the ability to produce greenhouse vegetables year round,” said Ms. Pickersgill. “Our home farms in Ontario start producing in March and run through November — possibly even into December this year.

Anthony Totta, director of marketing for Clifford Produce in Leamington, ON, told The Produce News June 27 that the company continues to produce several varieties and types of high-quality greenhouse tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers in its Ruthven, Leamington and Kingsville, ON, greenhouses.

Although cool weather earlier in 2011 is expected to slightly delay the harvest of California pears, growers and marketers are expecting the season to progress in an orderly manner.

“Cucumbers are produced year round in Ontario,” said Mr. Green. “All other items from Ontario run from every early spring through late fall.

“During Ontario’s off season, we work with our grower-partners in Mexico in order to offer year-round supplies of every item that we carry,” he added.

The international fruit business along the Delaware River continues to grow, and Lucca Freezer & Cold Storage Inc. is expanding to meet demand.

“We are just finishing up another expansion. We added another 32,000 square feet,” owner Rusty Lucca told The Produce News July 14.

GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ — Marc Solomon, president of Fisher Capespan, said that the late-California citrus deal lingered until the end of June.

“July 4 is now in the past, and we expect good movement from here on out,” Mr. Solomon said in a July 6 interview.

The South African citrus season’s second refrigerated breakbulk vessel discharged at the Gloucester Marine Terminal July 5-6. The 3,500 pallets of clementines and Navels “look really nice. They have good color and good Brix,” Mr. Solomon noted.