March 9th, 2023

  Market Notes March 9th, 2023   IT’S NOT GONNA BE GOOD     Easter weekend is early this year, and it is traditionally the beginning of the transition up north for greens and row crop growers in the Salinas Valley. While the equipment will move, and the...

  Market Notes March 2nd, 2023   BLUE SKIES…WE’RE WAITING TO SEE      The roads moving from the northwest to points east have opened and the blizzard in LA is gone. While not falling from the sky, the water remains on the ground not in the ground.  One grower...

February 23rd, 2023

  Market Notes February 23rd, 2023   WE’LL SEE YOU WHEN WE GET THERE…IF WE EVER GET THERE     Last Friday we loaded a truck in Oregon with a Pennsylvania destination, our forward distribution facility for the east coast.  It got somewhere into Wyoming and then...

February 16th, 2023

  Market Notes February 16th, 2023   CURSES…FOILED AGAIN     You have heard us on endlessly about the silly definition of “handler” in the new organic rules.  At last writing we were certain that brokers who did not touch the product in any way would be exempt,...

February 9th, 2023

  Market Notes February 9th, 2023     AS A HOLIDAY PRODUCE PRIMER HEREIN WE OFFER SELECTIONS FROM A DICTIONARY OF APHRODISIACS FOR YOUR VALENTINE’S DAY FESTIVITIES   ALMOND SOUP- This aphrodisiacal soup contains powdered almonds, yolk of eggs, chicken stock,...