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title: December 6, 2021
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# December 6, 2021
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Crop Updates
**STRAWBERRIES**
**Oxnard**
**Harvest Status:** The first set of green fruit is coming in on fall crop plantings.
**Santa Maria**
**Quality:** Conventional fruit quality is good with nice size, shape, color, and taste. Occasional deformed tips and pin rot are the only defects. Organic fruit quality is fair with some pin rot and albino fruit.
**Volume:** Production will be steady for the next 2-3 weeks.
**Pack Counts:** Conventional Fall Crop: 18-22, 20-24 depending on ranch / Organic Fall Crop: 20-25 depending on ranch.
**Florida**
**Harvest Status:** Light harvests have started. Once production increases, a steady stream of fruit is expected through March.
**Mexico**
**Quality:** Fruit quality is good overall.
**Volume:** Production is increasing.
**Pack Counts:** 22-28 ct.
**BLUEBERRIES**
**Mexico**
**Quality**: Quality is excellent.
**Volume**: Peak season for conventional fruit has started and is estimated to continue through week 50.
**Argentina/Uruguay**
**Quality**: Quality continues to be excellent.
**Volume:** Production is decreasing for the season.
**Peru**
**Quality:** Quality is good with occasional shriveled berries.
**Volume**: Production continues to wind down. Shipments will continue to arrive through week 50.
****Chile****
****Quality:**** Quality is great as the season picks up.
****Volume:**** The first organic container is expected to arrive in the US in week 49 and the first conventional container in week 51.
****Oxnard****
****Harvest Status:**** Production is beginning to increase for this organic crop.
****RASPBERRIES****
**Mexico**
**Quality:** Quality is good.
**Volume:** Production is increasing.
**BLACKBERRIES**
**Mexico**
**Quality:** Fruit quality is good.
**Volume:** Production is rapidly increasing.
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)
Reaching Consumers
**Home for the Holidays**
To celebrate the start of the holiday season, and promote berries as a holiday staple, we have launched our annual Home for the Holiday’s consumer promotion!
For the month of December, we'll be sharing fun activities to celebrate the season, festive recipes, and more! Our promotional website offers a different way to celebrate each day and a chance to win a $100 VISA gift card every week, alongside other culinary-themed prizes.
[Click here](https://promos.calgiant.com/home-for-the-holidays-2021) to learn more about the promotion!
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