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title: May 3, 2021
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# May 3, 2021
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Crop Updates
### **Strawberries**
**Oxnard: **
**Quality:** Fruit quality is good with a nice sheen, taste, and color.
**Volume:** Ranches are amid their peak season with production looking to start decreasing in the next two weeks.
**Pack Counts:** Conventional: 18-20 ct.
**Santa Maria:**
**Quality:** Conventional fruit has great size, shape, and firmness with minor uneven ripening and deformed tips. Incoming warm weather should help even out ripening. Organic fruit looks very good.
**Volume**: Yields are starting to trend upwards with peak season likely starting the second week in May and continuing through to June.
**Pack Counts:** Conventional: 12-14, 16-20 ct. Depending on variety / Organic: 14-16-18 ct. Depending on variety
**Watsonville/Salinas:**
**Quality:** Quality is great with the only minor defects being burnt calyxes and windburn.
**Volume:** Production is slowly increasing each week as the season starts later than usual. Strong flower loads on the plants will bring bigger increases to harvest volume soon.
**Pack Counts:** Conventional: 9-12 ct. / Organic: 12-15 ct.
### **Blueberries**
**Mexico**
**Quality**: Fruit quality is good with some small, shriveled berries due to ongoing heat. The average berry size is 10-12 mm.
**Volume:** Production was above the estimates for this week and last, but will continue to decrease over the next few weeks.
**Oxnard**
**Quality**: Overall quality of these organic blueberries is good with an occasional smaller berry.
**Volume**: Still moving downward for the season.
**Central Valley, CA**
**Quality**: Quality is looking very good.
**Volume**: Packing will begin in the next few weeks for many growers with peak production forecasted for the weeks of May 10 – June 7 on both organic and conventional fruit.
**Florida:**
**Quality**: Quality of the blueberries is very good with good size, firmness, flavor, and bloom.
**Volume**: Peak week production is slowing down with the season wrapping up around mid-May.
**Georgia:**
**Quality**: Quality is excellent with good size, bloom, and flavor.
**Volume**: Ranches are entering full peak towards the end of next week and expect large increases in production numbers leading up to it.
### **Raspberries**
**Mexico:**
**Quality:** Pack quality is good and clean despite extremely high temperatures.
**Volume:** Production will decrease through the month of May and pick back up at the beginning of June.
**Watsonville/Salinas:**
**Harvest Update:** Ranches are expecting to start light harvests during the end of May and first week of June with production picking up throughout June.
### **Blackberries**
**Mexico:**
**Quality: **Some broken and red cells due to weather.
**Volume: **Harvesting will continue for the next 3 weeks as volumes decrease. Severe heat is causing an earlier finish than previous seasons.
**Watsonville/Salinas:**
**Harvest Update:** Ranches are expecting to start light harvests during the end of May and first week of June with production picking up throughout June.
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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