STRAWBERRIES
Oxnard
Quality: Quality is great with good shape and sheen with coloring at 95-100%.
Volume: Production continues to increase week over week.
Pack Counts: Conventional: 12-14
Santa Maria
Quality: Conventional and organic spring crop quality is great with nice shape and sheen. Conventional fruit has occasional green shoulders. Organic fall crop quality is good with a mixture of firm and soft fruit.
Volume: Conventional volume continues to increase. Organic production is steady.
Pack Counts: Conventional Spring Crop: 10-12; Organic Spring Crop: 10-14; Organic Fall Crop: 20-24
Florida
Quality: Quality is excellent despite back-to-back freeze events. Growers ran water to insulate the plants; damage assessments will take place throughout the week.
Volume: Production is steady as freezing weather has slowed ripening.
Pack Counts: Conventional: 15-18; Organic: 20-25
Mexico
Quality: Quality is good with occasional white shoulders, seedy fruit, and light bruising.
Volume: Production is steady.
Pack Counts: 18-20-25 depending on ranch
BLUEBERRIES
Mexico
Quality: Quality is excellent.
Volume: Conventional peak production is estimated for week 6, volume will increase as it approaches.
Chile
Quality: Quality is great.
Volume: Container arrivals are heavy due to decreased delays at the ports.
Oxnard
Quality: Organic crop quality is good.
Volume: Production is rapidly increasing.
RASPBERRIES
Mexico
Quality: Quality is good with some overripe fruit due to labor shortages.
Volume: Volumes are increasing into peak production.
BLACKBERRIES
Mexico
Quality: Quality is good with occasional leaky fruit and red cell.
Volume: Production will slowly start to increase towards March.
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