by admin | Mar 17, 2023 | Archive
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...
by admin | Mar 13, 2023 | Archive
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...
by admin | Mar 4, 2023 | Archive
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...
by admin | Feb 24, 2023 | Archive
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,...
by admin | Feb 18, 2023 | Archive
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,...