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The Almonds Board of California has released the June Almond Position Report with shipments of +156.7 million pounds compared to last year’s 177 million pounds for a decrease of -11.5 percent. This report has been expected to be slightly lower, as last year we had extremely large shipments and this year our inventory is lacking […]
Domestic sales in America have dropped by 35 % last month (31% down overall). If sales continue to drop it is likely that we will see some kind of price correction in January/February. This is likely to be welcome news to exports markets. However this may be too late for processors to adjust grower contracts […]
2017 Crop Exports in June were 3,967 tons, compared to 4,981 tons last year Exports year to date are 91,386 tons compared to 82,822 tons last year Average export price for whole apricots for June was $3096/ton FOB compared to $3220/ton last year. Exports are tapering off as remaining quantity of clean apricots comes to […]
Green banana deliveries has been less than half of the volume some packers have expected, the availability of bananas, have again, started to become short. The reasons behind the shortage is because of heavy rainfall in the farm areas and many farmers have held out harvesting their bananas to prevent prices from falling further. Green banana […]
The 2018 californian almond objective estimate of 2.45 billion lbs is an increase on this years earlier subjective report in May, with a +6.5% boost, its also a 7.9% step-up on 2017 crop. Production from non pareil variety is forcaste at 910 million lbs, the lowest since 2005 down 0.8% and 21% below the 20 […]
The market generally remains unchanged in Turkey, however after the recent elections and and reelection of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the Lira recovered about 3%, which was less than the expectation. Prices in €/$ increased accordingly. Weather conditions have been near perfect up until now and the crop is developing extremely well. Exporters Union specialists are in […]
Pumpkin – Forecast to have significantly lower planting figures this crop due to low prices and weak market. Farmers likely to move into better cash crops such as Soya and Corn, particularly as they think the trade war with the US could see bean and corn prices rise. Millet – Too early to tell what […]
The Pecan crop estimate for the 2018 / 2019 season was released at the Tri-state growers conference last week at 300 million lbs which would mean a fairly sizeable crop in the US. It is also expected that the Mexican crop will be large too. Whilst there is no official number, it is widely expected […]
The Almond Board of California has released the MAY ALMOND POSITION REPORT with shipments of +158 million pounds compared to 170 million pounds last year for a decrease of 7.3 percent. DOMESTIC +66 million lbs +13.1% EXPORT +92 million lbs -17.9% Shipments for the month of May were down approximately 7.3 percent versus last […]
The May 2018 shipments versus the May 2017 shipments on an inshell equivalent were up approximately 4% for May. 41,354 tons versus 39,504 last year. The FINAL receipts reported on Dec. 31st, 2017 for the Walnut crop are at 627,798 tons. Pricing/Market: The California Walnut packers are coming ending the season where they are […]
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