by admin | Aug 19, 2021 | Archive
Market Notes August 5th, 2021 POTATO NOTES FROM ALL OVER Yellow A potatoes will continue to load out of New Mexico through August 20. This is for bulk loading only. The skins of these yellows have firmed up nicely. Purple A potatoes are loading fresh...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Archive
Market Notes July 29th, 2021 NEW ORGANIC GREED RULES (First in a series of one) On August 5, 2020, The Federal Register, volume 85 No. 151 published the details of a proposed rule by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) entitled Strengthening Organic...
by admin | Jul 30, 2021 | Archive
Market Notes July 22nd, 2021 POTATO NOTES Fingerling potatoes are on the move again, and it looks like we will not have any gap this year. During the pandemic, the fingerling was almost a cursed potato. For all the incredible movement of traditional table stock...
by admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Archive
Market Notes July 15th, 2021 LABOR It has now become apparent to many that the best job you can get is to sit at home and let the government pay you. This atrophy of the American work force has created a new economy from which many will benefit, and many will fail,...
by admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Archive
Market Notes July 8th, 2021 WATER In the Klamath River basin in Oregon, the fish are quite happy, the growers are not. Water from this basin is seasonally allocated to growers for their crops, but not this year. While the drought has reduced reservoir levels,...