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 […]
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The Norkota crop in Idaho is finished. We now only have the world famous Idaho Burbank and this years crop is not as good as we would like. However, the shippers are doing an excellent job of grading and the finished product is good. The biggest problem […]
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The onion market has been in a state of flux since the heavy rains in Texas. With most of the Mexican crop finished, it has put a lot more pressure on Texas and California. If the weather holds Texas should be back in full production by the […]
Read moreWell, April has come and gone and we are starting to see a slight increase in the potato market. We expect this to continue as we end the Norkota’s and have all Burbank’s in Idaho. The Burbank crop is not the best we have produced so we […]
Read moreThe California and Validia onions both seem to be suffering some serious seed stems as well as sun scold. This will create issues and probably lighter volume. However, both seem to be heavier to the Jumbo size and we expect to see that keep the Jumbo market […]
Read moreAs we close the week we have seen two things. First, potatoes are steady on consumers and moving up on cartons. Norkota’s will be finished by the May 3rd if not sooner and then all we will have in Idaho is Burbank’s. Idaho’s Burbank’s are not very […]
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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 […]
Read moreThe Idaho potato market has taken a slight jump due to the heavy promotion by the Idaho Potato Commission. The “Jumbo” consumer program is making a big hit with retailers and it has really cleaned up a lot of excess cartons. This promotion will go through the […]
Read moreThe potato market on Burbank’s is moving up slowly on the bigger sizes (40-70) because of the Potato Commissions month long add on Jumbo consumers (mostly 60-70 size). We expect this to have some impact throughout the month but consumers see to be steady. Two’s have not […]
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If you saw the onion article in the Produce News this week, there were two different opinions of the future of the onion market. I am inclined to support the theory that this will be a good onion year but not a runaway like 2010. There is […]
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