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Californian Almonds Shipments up 16% on last year!!

Californian Almonds Shipments up 16% on last year!!

The Almond Board of California released the February Position Report detailing shipments of 234 million pounds, up 16% over last year. This represents the sixth record shipment month out of seven This does come as a surprise to the industry with ship...

Seed Market

Seed Market

In general, the seed market is still very bullish being the result of poor yields throughout Europe, high freight costs and a squeeze in the supply chain out of China. The strong GBP is at least off-setting the imported costs. I believe there to be s...

California Walnut Market Update – Volumes have increased up to 20%!!

California Walnut Market Update – Volumes have increased up to 20%!!

Latest News Update from the Walnut desk… FEBRUARY SHIPMENTS: On an inshell equivalent basis, February 2021 Walnut shipments were + 63,528 tonnes compared to 56,605 tonnes in February 2020, an increase of +10.9%!! SEASON TO DATE SHIPMENTS: So fa...

Pecan Update – Total supply remains unclear while prices continue to be firm

Pecan Update – Total supply remains unclear while prices continue to be firm

Pecan Supply Update: Although the overall supply for the 2020 crop is unknown, the first cold storage number for 2021 was released last week, and it stands at 302 million pounds (inshell conversion at 44 percent ). This amount of cold storage in Janu...

Seed Market Update – Lack of selling Interest and Sporadic buying pressure

Seed Market Update – Lack of selling Interest and Sporadic buying pressure

Latest news from the seed desk…. Over the last week, markets have remained relatively flat, with little selling interest from farmers and only marginal buying pressure from foreign markets. With green lentil stocks likely exhausted going into t...

Apricot New Crop – Is a frost on it’s way?

Apricot New Crop – Is a frost on it’s way?

Turkish Sultanas – Q1 Market Update

Turkish Sultanas – Q1 Market Update

The bourse appears to be selling only a small amount of raw material. The market is extremely tranquil. TMO (Turkish Grain Board) has announced to sell their raw material inventories. Total volume is 121.279 MT from September 1st, 2020 to February ...

Dried Figs – Q1 Market Update

Dried Figs – Q1 Market Update

Due to the approaching Ramadan season, we continue to see a lively market for figs. Traders can only sell a limited amount of raw material. However, any raw material we can find on the market has a count of 60 or more per kilogramme (smaller sizes lo...

Dried Apricots – Q1 Market Update

Dried Apricots – Q1 Market Update

The sector is seeing more price rises due to a lack of availability for apricot raw material. Growers do not carry any raw materials to sell at the market. There are rumours that farmers no longer have significant raw material supply on hand, but onl...

Almonds Bloom Snapshot Update

Almonds Bloom Snapshot Update

Except for a few places where temperatures dropped below -1 degrees C for a brief moment, the weather has been perfect so far. Bud is doing great on the hard shells, and Monterey is looking good so far. In the region around Modesto, the existing NP o...

Forward View of the Seed Market!

Forward View of the Seed Market!

Sunflower:- The oilseeds and vegetable oil markets are extremely volatile supported by increased palm oil prices, difficulties in the exports of soya from South America, frost damage to the rape crop in the EU and the market for veg. oil as a feed-st...

Chilean Prunes Market Update

Chilean Prunes Market Update

Since the weather for Chilean dried prunes has not been too favourable for new crops, practically all manufacturers/packers are waiting to sell new dried prunes. After suffering a massive and truly unprecedented rain 8-14 days ago, because of several...

TREE NUTS MARKET REPORT – ALMONDS

TREE NUTS MARKET REPORT – ALMONDS

The January shipment report broke the downward direction of the past months. The shipments of almonds from California did not crack the monthly year on year record for the first time this season and they also declined beyond the most pessimistic fore...

TREE NUTS MARKET REPORT – BRAZIL NUT

TREE NUTS MARKET REPORT – BRAZIL NUT

The already reported standoff over prices between processors and collectors has led to a very late start of the new rainforest region campaign. Due to missing raw material, all roots are currently unable to ship and several processors have yet to ope...

TREE NUTS MARKET REPORT – CASHEWS

TREE NUTS MARKET REPORT – CASHEWS

The Vietnamese New Year holidays are underway and the usual decline in operation by processors and buyers during this time has been demonstrated in recent weeks. Throughout January, the initial prices were steadily soft and hit lows that were last se...

TREE NUTS MARKET REPORT – PECANS

TREE NUTS MARKET REPORT – PECANS

In Europe, the spot market for pecan halves is very scarce because shipments have been delayed over the last 2 months. Halves of especially high quality are barely offered at all. The immediate coverage of spot needs is advisable. There are reports i...

Lentils Market Snapshot Update

Lentils Market Snapshot Update

Large green lentil markets have gone a bit crazy over the past week and small greens have moved slightly as well. There has been some steep price fluctuations for international offers due to processors wanting slightly more margin more their produce....

Chilean Prunes Market Update

Chilean Prunes Market Update

The latest harvest commenced this week, however there is major concern after the central valley saw its biggest rainfall ever for January 2 weeks ago; this has been reported to have caused some damage. The weather however is incredibly hot right now,...

Almond Shipments – The challenges ahead

Almond Shipments – The challenges ahead

The shipping industry for Almonds is facing one of the greatest challenges in years. “Your container has been rolled as the vessel is skipping the port” is the most hated term every day. Due to a shortage of containers, supplies, and vess...

South African Vine Fruit Update

South African Vine Fruit Update

Following on from our earlier post last week on SA Fruit… Orange River Area – Northern Cape Due to a powerful La Nina system, this region has received rainfall ranging from 80mm to 200mm over the last two months. In the Vaal and Orange Ri...

January Review – California Walnut Market Report & Crop Update

January Review – California Walnut Market Report & Crop Update

Considering the severe difficulties with shipping delays in the month of January, California shippers will consider this shipment report as good news. There were over 30 ships anchored off Southern California and over 10 ships anchored off Oakland as...

February Market Report – Cranberries

February Market Report – Cranberries

Powerful winter and spring vine harm is the engine of this year’s crops to meet demands for the 3rd consecutive year. US Final Numbers of crops that are supposed to come in Compared to just under 5 million barrels, 4.48 MM barrels and barrels u...

February Market Report – Figs

February Market Report – Figs

Fig growers seem to have already ended their sales. They have no raw material on hand to sell any more. Also traders have very small amounts of raw materials at their disposal. As we enter the Ramadan season, we see a growing demand for dried figs as...

February Market Report – Apricots

February Market Report – Apricots

There is still a strong demand for the raw material, but farmers are hesitant to put the raw material to market for sale. On the other hand, for the month of February, we have higher temperatures relative to the average degrees of recent years. In ad...

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