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Western consumers show their love of artichokes with their purchase penetration. Shoppers in the West comprised the group most likely to buy artichokes overall, with more than one-quarter of consumers there saying they’d bought the vegetable in the past year.

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Huge artichoke display vies for world record

04/23/2012

Ocean Mist Farms and Rouses Supermarkets made a bid for a world-record fresh artichoke display as they assembled 20,000 green globes and a 256 square-foot fleur-de-lis artichoke-filled ornament in New Orleans.
Ocean Mist artichokes hit peak

04/19/2012

CASTROVILLE, Calif. — By the second week of April, peak season for artichokes had arrived. The crop’s top grower, Ocean Mist Farms, expects high volumes to hit retail shelves into early May.
Cool, rainy weather may mean slow start for Salinas harvest

04/19/2012

SALINAS, Calif. — Cold nights and rainy days in the second week of April left Salinas Valley vegetable grower-shippers wondering whether relief from a winter of oversupply and stagnant pricing was in sight.
Artichokes hit full stride at Ocean Mist

04/16/2012

CASTROVILLE, Calif. — By the second week of April, peak season for artichokes had arrived. The crop’s top grower, Ocean Mist Farms, expects high volumes to hit retail shelves into early May.

“We’re going to have very good supplies for the next six to eight weeks,” Dale Huss, vice president for artichoke production at Castroville, Calif.-based Ocean Mist said April 6.
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04/13/2012

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Market Scope - Artichokes — F.o.b.s as of May 14