The Packer - Plums/Prunes

The likelihood of a plum purchase dropped eight percentage points from Fresh Trends 2012, although the purple fruit still remains in the top 20 favorite fruits.

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  • Packer Stories

  • Demand strong early in California stone fruit deals

    05/23/2013

    Grower-shippers reported strong demand for high-quality California stone fruit in the second half of May.


  • Fowler Packing adds vice president

    05/13/2013

    Derrick Bender is now vice president of new business development for Fowler Packing, a grower-packer-shipper of stone fruit, table grapes and clementines in Fowler, Calif.


  • Winds buffet Kern County cherries

    05/08/2013

    A wind and dust storm that hit the Bakersfield, Calif., region May 5 took a bite out of Kern County’s stone fruit and nut crops.


  • UPDATED: Grape & Tree Fruit League in good health

    03/26/2013

    LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Members of the Fresno-based California Grape & Tree Fruit League received some reassuring news during their 77th annual meeting March 25.


  • Cherry-plum makes gains in Europe, Washington

    03/25/2013

    Univeg Katope UK Ltd. has gained exclusive marketing rights to the Nadia cherry-plum hybrid in the European Union and Turkey in a licensing deal with a group whose growers include Yakima, Wash.-based Brandt’s Fruit Trees Inc.


More Packer Stories for Plums/Prunes

 

  • Market Scope - Plums — F.o.b.s as of April 22

  • 2013-04-21
  • CHILE — (53-54-3) — Imports via boat — Movement expected to cease as shipping season draws to a close. Port of entry: Los Angeles and Port of entry: Philadelphia. Supplies insufficient and in too few hands to establish a market. LAST REPORT. 

 

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