by admin | Sep 13, 2020 | Archive
Market Notes Sept. 3, 2020 LABOR DAY POEM It’s Labor Day and it’s our own special way to say hey to the American worker They worked 12 hour days and worked all seven days so this story is quite a tear jerker. In 1882 10K New York City workers were threw...
by admin | Sep 4, 2020 | Archive
Market Notes Aug 27, 2020 CALIFORNIA FIRES The smoky days and the red sun continue. For the most part the fires are not spreading and we are hearing higher containment daily. While the loss of property is huge the causalities (although one is too many) are...
by admin | Aug 27, 2020 | Archive
Market Notes Aug 20, 2020 CALIFORNIA FIRES As the fires continue it is too soon to access anything definitive other than not good, very bad. Our office in Santa Cruz, though safe for the moment is surrounded on three sides by fires. Salinas to the south,...
by admin | Aug 20, 2020 | Archive
Market Notes Aug 13, 2020 A POTATO WITH NO NAME Like chili pepper development out of University of New Mexico, potato development out of Colorado State, or citrus development out of UC Davis, North Carolina State is a center for sweet potato development. ...
by admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Archive
Market Notes Aug 6, 2020 TRICKY TIME WITH TOMATOES Let’s start with the fun stuff. So, we have yellow slicing tomatoes that are much better than the Baja melters but they are in Birmingham, Alabama. Ever try to get an LTL out of Birmingham, Alabama? Don’t!...
by admin | Aug 10, 2020 | Archive
Market Notes July 30, 2020 GREEN GAGE GAME ON – PEAK WEEK AT ANDY’S Two great things going on here, let’s go in order. The Green Gage plums will be in full harvest next week at Andy’s Orchards in Morgan Hill, California. If you are a “guest” reader of Market...
