FRESAS
Santa Maria
Calidad: Conventional and organic fruit quality is good with some decay and pin rot present.
Volumen: 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.
Cantidad de paquetes: Conventional fall crop 22-24. Organic fall crop, 24-30.
watsonville/salinas
Calidad: Conventional and organic quality is good with nice sheen, small-to-medium size, and good flavor.
Volumen: Overall production is low, and we are taking production week by week.
Cantidad de paquetes: Conventional 22-28; Organic 26-34 depending on ranch.
Florida
Actualización de la región: 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.
México
Actualización de la región: 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.
ARÁNDANOS
México
Calidad: Conventional and organic quality is good with minor occurrences of shrivel and leaky fruit.
Volumen: Los volúmenes están aumentando.
Perú
Calidad: Conventional quality is great with minor occurrences of shrivel and leaky fruit.
Volumen: Volumes are steady with bulk containers and prepacked pints/18oz containers arriving in CGC once or twice a week almost every week through the rest of the year
Chile
Calidad: Organic quality is great with minor occurrences of shrivel and leaky fruit.
Volumen: Los volúmenes son constantes.
FRAMBUESAS
México
Calidad: Overall, fruit is looking good with a strong red color, sizes and firmness look good.
Volumen: Volume for raspberries is staying steady through November.
watsonville
Calidad: 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.
Volumen: Overall production volume has taken a steep cut—season could be ending soon in the next week or two.
MORAS
México
Calidad: Quality is fair but improving.
Volumen: Volume for blackberries is steady for the rest of the year.
watsonville
Calidad: Quality is fair. Attached calyx and red cell regression is a continual occurrence and are seeing some issues of smaller fruit.
Volumen: Overall production volume has taken a steep cut as we enter a low of the season.
Elogio del comprador
Una linda nota de bayas de un comprador de California Giant Berry Farms:
“I’ve never written to a producer of any food, but I am compelled to let you know that your strawberries are consistently the best we’ve ever had. We’ve eaten so many that I’m surprised we haven’t grown stems. Thank you for making us believe again that fruit can be grown, packaged, and shipped and remain delicious.”