Tag: oranges

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.

This year’s Mexican lime crop has been large and high quality, and through the first half of demand was keeping up. Then the restaurants closed. Prices and volume have dropped from there.

California citrus growers are about halfway through harvesting a large crop with a wide size range. That should allow retailers to aggressively market smaller-sized fruit in bags this spring.