Tag: Markon Cooperative

Lime prices are rising and may keep going as supplies become less available.

Potato prices are rising as the remaining storage crop gets depleted. But summer red and yellow potato volume is rising as Texas and California growers send more to a high demand market.

After a short respite from high temperatures, the Salinas Valley will once again experience a heatwave starting Thursday, July 14 and continuing through the middle of next week.

The Mexican grape season is expected to wrap up by the end of next week, as the California season plans to start about July 6.

The combination of California’s blueberry season ending early and the Pacific Northwest’s starting late should lead to higher prices for the next week or two.

The unseasonably hot temperatures currently being recorded in California’s Salinas Valley and other West Coast growing regions are raising serious concerns at Markon Cooperative over quality and shelf-life for many key fruit and vegetable crops.

Idaho potato shippers are running through their supplies from storage, and already the Norkotah crop has been exhausted, leaving Burbank variety until new crop arrives.

Consumer demand for strawberries shows no let up after the Mother’s Day holiday push, and California growers are ready for it.

Celery prices have about doubled in the past few weeks as the crop transition has led to light supplies.

The Mexican tomato season is winding down causing Roma and vine-ripe prices to rise.