Tag: lettuce

Ideal weather conditions aided growth in November and December. Lettuce and other desert row crops, including value-added items, are demonstrating great quality and high yields. Supplies are abundant throughout the desert growing region.

Markon shot this Live from the Fields video highlighting low temperatures that have caused lettuce ice in the Arizona/California desert growing region.

The Thanksgiving pull has arrived, and produce markets have more than a few things to be grateful for.

A series of unfortunate circumstances has lettuce buyers clinging tighter to the beginning of Yuma’s season than President-Elect Donald Trump to the American flag on election night.

Several key commodity and value-added fruits and vegetable items such as broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, and leafy greens are exhibiting heat-related quality and shelf-life issues.

Vision Greens, a Welland, Ontario-based vertical farm using patented technology and proprietary processes to bring sustainable, better tasting greens to Canadian consumers, announces today the value of its second capital raise at $18M.

California’s Salinas Valley 2024 growing season is winding down. Historically, it is common to see increased soil disease and plant viruses starting to affect crop quality and yields by late Summer/early Fall, which in turn has our Markon inspectors closely monitoring soil health and quality of iceberg, leaf lettuce, and tender leaf items.

Tanimura & Antle proudly marks the 15th anniversary of its revolutionary Tanimura & Antle Artisan Lettuce, a product that has redefined the lettuce category with its exceptional taste, texture, and proprietary packaging attributes.

All row crop vegetables that have been exposed to these temperatures are expected to exhibit varying levels of heat-related quality and shelf-life concerns over the next two weeks.

Overall produce prices stick to the status quo. Prices are down -2 percent over the previous week, which aligns with previous trends for week #16.