Tag: oranges

Limoneira Company, a diversified citrus packing, sales and marketing company with related agribusiness activities and real estate development operations, today announced the sale of its real estate asset referred to as “Lindsay Central Valley” located in Lindsay, CA.

Citrus exporters to the U.S. are finding a hot market this summer as retail demand has been explosive during the pandemic.

Pandemic-induced consumer demand for citrus continues to produce strength to the orange and lemon markets.

Oranges have proven impulse-proof week after week. How can we give the rest of the department the boost it needs? 

Orange prices keep rising this spring as retail demand remains strong. The latest IRI scan data shows oranges at 79 percent higher year-over-year dollar growth and 80 percent on volume growth.

Domestic pear volumes are lower than last year, but steady, and that has lead to steady F.O.B. and retail pricing.

Easy-peel clementines are the first fruit to arrive, expected in late May in New York, followed by containers of more easy peelers and navel oranges in the third week of June.

We’ve all got nowhere to go. Might as well eat our oranges in the shower. It’s a fun change of pace when days are blending together.  

Potatoes and onions are diverse crops grown in many areas of the country, and even with stronger retail demand, growers and marketers of neither could have anticipated the economic uncertainty that’s come with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Americans are known worldwide as a vitamin-happy people, so this shortage shouldn’t be surprising. But medical recommendations don’t necessarily support the boom in supplements.