Plum purchases inched up two percentage points in the past year. As was the case the past two years, the likelihood of purchase increased according to income.
04/26/2012
Produce industry veteran Jim Gallagher has been named chief executive officer of Fruit Patch Sales Inc.
04/19/2012
REEDLEY, Calif. — California’s San Joaquin Valley stone fruit production is in transition.
04/13/2012
California stone fruit growers’ damage estimates in the wake of an April 11 hail storm have yet to be completed, but some are expected to face massive crop loss.
“We’re definitely still in the assessing mode,” Barry Bedwell, president of the Fresno-based California Grape & Tree Fruit League, said April 13. “But there are clearly certain orchards that will not see any fruit harvested.”
04/11/2012
An April 11 hailstorm seems certain to put a dent in California stone fruit production.
“One of our field men said it’s the worst hail he’s ever seen,” said John Thiesen, division manager Giumarra Bros. Fruit Co. division in Reedley, Calif. “It’s literally stripping leaves off the tree.”
The storm cut a swath through Hanford, Traver and Kingsburg.
04/09/2012
Stonefruit volume from Giumarra Bros. Fruit Co. division in Reedley, Calif., is expected to be up 32% this year, and a salesman has been brought in to help accommodate it.
“We have added several new growers and will also have our own additional acreage in production,” John Thiesen, division manager for Giumarra Reedley, said in a news release.
CHILE — Imports (12-6-11) — Imports via boat. Movement expected to decrease. Port of entry: Los Angeles area and port of entry: Philadelphia. Supplies insufficient and in too few hands to establish a market. LAST REPORT.
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