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POTATOES:  We expect to see prices increase on cartons.  The suprise is why consumers haven’t gone up?  All the shippers we talked to are sort on consumers and they will be going up as well.  We expect to see a constant increase in cartons over the next […]

If we stop to think about what this weekend is really about, the produce business is not very important.  Many of you are old enough to remember when Memorial Day was call Decreation Day.  It was orginally stated to remember those that died in the Civil War […]

The potato markets seem to have settled a bit for  the moment.  Business was slow after Mother’s Day, which is to be expected, but hasn’t seem to really pick up for Memorial Day.  Next week being a short week will take some planning if we are going […]

The Texas onion market is now in full swing and we are not seeing the demand necessary to maintain higher prices.  It appears that both Texas and California have large size onions since the Supers, Colossals, and Jumbos are almost all the same price.  Freight rates in […]

The old crop onions remain steady but this is added pressure from new crop onions as volume increases in Texas and Mexico and California prepares to start the end of the week.  Yellows are in the most jepordary but we have seen a decrease in whites as […]

Potato market seems to remain steady.  Some large sizes (40 & 50’s) are more plentiful in both Norkota’s and Burbank’s but 60’s through 100’s seem to be in good demand.  Most sheds that still have Norkota’s are packing them only two or three days per week.  Making […]

Idaho/Oregon onions are starting to clean up.  We have some outstanding quality available but there is also some marginal product as well.  We will have old crop through the month of April.  The early Mexican program is winding down and Texas or the later Mexican deal are […]