Latest News From Santa Maria Produce

The past 12 months have highlighted Santa Maria area grower-shippers’ ongoing commitment to employee health and safety, not to mention their ability to adapt quickly to changing market conditions.

Packaging trends for Santa Maria-area shippers include a diverse set of expectations on rising costs, and sustainability.

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With the help of the H-2A program, Santa Maria growers expect tight but manageable labor availability for 2021.

California’s Coachella Valley grape output may slip in 2021, as bearing grape acreage has declined and the industry has consolidated.

California’s Santa Maria shippers say the pandemic’s effect on marketing has been profound, but foodservice demand is slowly recovering.

Read how shippers say retail sales of Santa Maria produce can be more effective.

With core items that include broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and cilantro, Santa Maria, Calif.-based Gold Coast Packing Co. Inc. also has significantly grown its Brussels sprouts program in recent years.

Plentiful rain over the winter quenched thirsty fields across California, but will delay fruit and vegetable supplies out of Santa Maria during the spring season.

Tabletop strawberry production under high tunnels is being attempted on a limited scale in California’s Santa Maria growing district.

Catch up with several companies involved in growing and shipping fresh produce from the Santa Maria growing region.

Volume was lacking for promotions at Easter, but Santa Maria will play a key role in California’s strawberry output this year.