California Stone Fruit Started Early!

marketnotes

The hot, dry weather in California has accelerated the

start of the stone fruit season in California this year.
We are receiving the first of the cherries and are
tasting some awesome peaches! Jump on board.

Produce Market Report May 12, 2015

GOOD BUYS FOR THE WEEK

GOOD BUYS

KEEP IN MIND

Transportation issues: Mothers Day

Watermelons

Clementines: We are
finished for the season on
clementines.

floral shipments
Diverted the capacity
of trucks which
normally transport
produce. Although this
bottleneck is behind
us, it impacted product
reaching intended
markets last week and
raised freight costs.

Mangoes
Zucchini and yellow
squash
Eggplant

Mangoes: Outstanding
quality on Kent and Keets
varieties which are the best
eating mangoes and good
prices.

Zucchini and yellow

squash: You will notice a
distinctive sheen to the
skin of the nice squash we
are getting from Georgia
and Florida.

Watermelons:
Quality is excellent
and supplies out of
Florida are very good.
With dependability,
Continue to ramp up in
supply. Prices are
declining.

Eggplant: This Florida

picking is yielding awesome
eggplant.

Cucumbers
Spinach

KEEP IN MIND

Asparagus: Fresh this

week from Godfrey
Farms, the asparagus is
about as fresh as we get
it all year with that
spring green color and a
crispy snap to please
your guests.
Strawberries: Dont forget these beauties! This week
theyll start arriving from Shlagel Farms in Waldorf, MD.

good news is that we still

have an abundance of Pixie
tangerines, they are intensely sweet, seedless
and a perfect substitute for
clementines.

Raspberries
Cantaloupes and
honeydews
Artichokes

sources now from both

Georgia and Florida the
quality is excellent and the
price is down a bit.

Asparagus

Raspberries: Outstand-

Red and yellow

ing quality continues with

no change in price.

peppers

Cantaloupes and
honeydews: First melons

WATCH
Strawberries

Green grapes
Green leaf and
red leaf

of the season from

California have arrived as
we move from Central
America to southern
California and Arizona.
Juan canary melons and
charentais in stock too.

Green leaf filets

Artichokes: Available in

Rapini

all sizes from Castroville.

Still a little pricey.

Cauliflower

Strawberries:
Demand exceeds
supplies as we come off
the Mothers Day retail
ad situation.

Cherries: If we get a
Blueberries: With

Cherries

Local Corner

Pixie tangerines: The

Pixie tangerines
Blueberries

WATCH

Sugar snap peas

Asparagus: Down a bit.

Idaho potatoes

Red potatoes

Red and yellow

peppers: Still coming

Spanish onions

from Mexico with nice

quality and steady pricing.

little notice we can get

the first of the California
bing cherries this week.
They are still pricey.

Green beans: Florida

bean market remains
very active.

Green leaf and red

leaf: All leafy greens
are up this week with
the most critical being
green and red leaf.
Heavy pro-rate situation
for green leaf filets.

Rapini / Broccoli
rabe: Very tight
availability is causing a
pro-rate situation with
sky high prices.

Cauliflower:
Continued tight markets.
Broccoli and crowns
down a bit.

Sugar snap peas:

Tight availability.

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