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Yesterday the Almond Board released the January position report. California shipped 193.5 million pounds, up 16.7% over last year’s 165.8 million lbs. This is a new record for the month of January, and the fourth month in a row that California has posted a new record. Domestic and Export shipments also set records, with Domestic […]
News in from California - the Almond tree bloom is progressing due to unusually warm weather in California. Some of the early varieties of Fritz/Sonora are starting to bloom.
Apricots 2017 Crop Exports in January were 7,836 tons, compared to 6,429 tons, an increase of 22% Exports year to date are 59,363 tons compared to 49,228 tons, an increase of 20.6% Average export price for whole apricots for January was $2978/ton FOB compared to $3351 last year. The 20% plus increased export trend continued […]
Figs Year to date exports are 34,860 tons, compared to 35,207 tons last year, an decrease of barely 1%. Average prices year to date are $4507/ton FOB compared to $3783 last year, an increase of 19%. Price related decrease in demand in traditional large markets, Germany (-16%), France (-9%), Italy (-23%) and the UK (-13%) […]
Vine Fruit: Limited volumes of vine fruit has been delivered and the quality is good. The crop size is still predicted to be around 55 000 – 60 000 tonnes and the weather has been good thus far. Although scattered showers have been reported in some regions, it has not had a significant impact on […]
Prices for Sweetened Dried Cranberries (SDCs) have continued to rise slowly in recent weeks. After a long period of oversupply and low prices, a smaller than expected crop in the U.S. and Canada and ongoing legislation to limit supply continues to lift prices from their recent lows. There is also an availability issues on Whole SDCs, with […]
California still has limited availability on major inshell walnut varietals. Due to the record number of high heat days (100+ F // 38+ C) this year, many packers are opting to shell what they would normally sell as inshell product. Packers can better control for heat related damage during the shelling/sorting process, so we expect […]
The market remains quite with very little activity. There are limited offers at 20 TL for raw 11/13 mm Kernels, buyers are mainly domestic. With suppliers well sold and most manufacturers well covered we would expect the market to remain quite but stable. The next point of interest for both producers and manufacturers will be […]
Raw material prices continue to increase for the Turkish dried apricots. The 2017 season, until the end of January has seen 59.000mtons of dried apricots having been exported overseas from all grades and qualities. When we compare this level with last year figures, we can see around a 20% increase in quantity being shipped. However, […]
Turkish dried figs prices continue to increase as it has done since the beginning of 2017. Although export shipments of 2017 crop is around at the 35mtons level, we can see a serious shortage of raw material. Especially, big sizes fruits N1, N2, N3 these are almost finished or the prices have become too expensive […]
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