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title: April 18, 2022
description: California Giant Berry Farms' weekly crop update.
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# April 18, 2022
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Crop Updates
**STRAWBERRIES**
**Oxnard**
**Quality:** Quality is good with clean packs. Fruit has nice shape and sheen with 90-100 percent color. Crews are cleaning up sunburnt fruit from last week’s high temperatures.
**Volume:** Volume has decreased due to heat damage. Production will gradually increase in the coming weeks.
**Pack Counts:** Conventional: 16-20
**Santa Maria**
**Quality:** Conventional quality is good with firm, flavorful fruit, and occasional deformed tips or green shoulders. Organic spring crop quality is good. Organic fall crop quality is fair with some pin rot.
**Volume**: Volume has decreased due to cleaning up sunburned fruit.
**Pack Counts:** Conventional Spring Crop: 10-12-14, 14-16, depending on ranch; Organic Spring Crop: 14-16; Organic Fall Crop: 28-32
**Watsonville/Salinas**
**Quality:** Quality is great with occasional ridged and button nose fruit. Rain and wind last week caused minimal damage. Overall plant health across the ranches is strong as the season starts.
**Volume:** Production is increasing.
**Pack Counts:** Conventional: 9-12; Organic: 16-17
**BLUEBERRIES**
**Mexico**
**Quality:** Quality is good with some smaller-sized fruit due to temperatures over 100 degrees.
**Volume:** Production is steady.
**Oxnard**
**Quality:** Quality is good.
**Volume:** Production is slowly decreasing as the season starts to wind down.
**Central Valley, California**
Harvest Status: Organic production is increasing each week. Conventional plants are loaded with green fruit; production is anticipated to start the first week of May.
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**Florida**
Quality: Quality is great. Redback fruit from recent freezing weather is being cleaned up.
Volume: Production is increasing quickly.
**Georgia**
**Harvest Status:** Volume estimates have increased for the season.
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**RASPBERRIES**
**Mexico**
**Quality:** Quality is good with uneven ripening and overripe fruit due to temperatures over 100 degrees. Rain early last week helped settle dust and clean plants. Crews are working hard to keep clean packs.
**Volume:** Production is steady.
**BLACKBERRIES**
**Mexico**
**Quality:** Quality is good with some red cell and broken fruit due to high temperatures. Crews are working hard to keep clean packs.
**Volume:** Production continues to be light and will increase in the coming months.
Weather Conditions
For up-to-date weather conditions in all of our growing regions, click on the region below. [Wunderground.com](http://www.wunderground.com/) is our go-to weather resource for fast and reliable weather updates.
[Watsonville](http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:95076.1.99999)
[Salinas](http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:93901.1.99999)
[Santa Maria](http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:93454.1.99999)
[Oxnard](https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/ca/oxnard/93030)
[Mexico](https://www.wunderground.com/weather/mx/zamora)
[Georgia](https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/ga/homerville/31634)
[Florida](https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/fl/plant-city)
[South America](https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ar/metan)
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