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Apricots Dried Apricot New Crop Market Update

Dried Apricot New Crop Market Update

News is in across this week that dried Apricot new crop is of a good quantity. The new crop has been recorded as a minimum of 3 weeks delay due to the cool weather during the ripening and drying period. There are big disputes with regards to the crop...

Pecans Pecan Market Update

Pecan Market Update

Current Market Conditions Shipments have continued at a steady rate though Q3. It is apparent that many Buyers are favoring purchasing on a spot basis rather than contracting across the remainder of the year. Prices have steadied or strengthened depe...

GWS Pumpkin Seed Market Update

GWS Pumpkin Seed Market Update

Grown Without Shell Pumpkin Seeds Update 2018 Crop 2018 Crop was estimated at 10,000-12,000 mt. Carry out from 2017 was 6,000-8,000 mt, and total supply was 16,000-20,000 mt. Grown Without Shell Pumpkin seed is 100% used in EU and other export mark...

Walnut Market and Crop Update

Walnut Market and Crop Update – June 2019

Market Markets have been relatively quiet since Chile has started to ship in the Spring. Chile is relatively sold out, much more sold then this time last year. In California most inventory is also sold out as well. The market overall seems pret...

California Almond Forecast

California Almond Forecast Down 3.5 Percent

New information is out, NASS has estimated the 2019 Californian Almond crop at 2.2 billion pounds, bringing the once estimated crop of 2.5 billion pounds down by 12 percent. Effects were felt throughout the industry the moment the estimate was announ...

Almonds shipment report

May Almonds shipment report

One more month is in the books and California has now compiled 5 record shipment months out of 10 so far with May setting a record of 178 mm pounds. Domestic shipments flattened out while export shipments improved drastically compared to last seaso...

California Almond Report

The California Almond Board March Position Report

The California Almond Board has released the Almond Position Report with shipments of +184.9 million pounds compared to last year 193.9 million pounds for a decrease of 4.6 percent....

Turkish Apricot Markets Update

Turkish Apricot Markets Update 04/04/2019

2018 Crop · Exports in March were 8,386 tons, compared to 7,807 tons last year, an increase of 7.5% · ...

Weather forecast apricot growing regions

Widespread frost is forecast through the apricot growing regions from tonight

It is anticipated that 30% of bloom has set, leaving fruit-lets that are highly susceptible to frost, even -1 or -2 C can cause damage....

California Almond Board Markets Reports

California Almond Board has released the February Almond Position

The Almond Board of California has released the February Almond Position Report with shipments of +186.9 million pounds compared to 190.1 million pounds last year for a decrease of 1.7% percent. Domestic Shipments +58.71 million pounds ...

The Almond Board of California has released the position report

Record January Californian Almonds Shipments

The Almond Board of California has released the Position Report with shipments of 209.61 million lbs compared to 193.50 million pounds last year for an Increase of 8.3% and a New Record. DOMESTIC: Shipped 64.30 million lbs for an incre...

Pecan Market Update

Pecan Market Update

The pecan market has remained soft in the beginning of 2019. A significant amount of contracting took place in the first half of January, but many buyers are still waiting on market development. The US harvest of pecans is still projected to be reduc...

Chilean Prune Update South African Field Report

South African Field Report 8.2.19

Vine fruit Weather conditions have been very good until first week February. Rain is forecasted for the next few days and it may reduce the crop size. Impact on quality will depend on the period the product will be exposed to the rain. We will provid...

Californian Walnuts Report.

Californian Walnuts Report. The January 2019 shipments versus the January 2018 shipments on an inshell equivalent were up 28%

WALNUT MARKET AND CROP UPDATE- January 2019 Domestic – January 2019 shipments versus 2018 shipments on an inshell equivalent were up 26% Export – January 2019 shipments versus 2018 shipments on an inshell equivalent were up 28.5% . Key Market ...

Raw cashew nut 2019 crop

Raw cashew nut 2019 crop scenario:

Crop reports are coming in globally – Some places early and most places a good crop. At new crop raw cashew prices the processing parity of cashews is coming to 3.60 USD/lb The prices are expected to move southwards and therefore larger proces...

Seeds Market Update

Seeds Market Update

Linseed Market is just starting to get a bit tighter in terms of available unsold raw material. Stocks in Western Europe are very low with deliveries into processors really starting to slow up. Every pre-supplier is struggling to get linseed into Eur...

Walnut Crop update and Market report

Walnut Crop update and Market report December 2018

Happy New Year All! A report to reflect on last year’s Walnut Market and crops, for the month of December. The December 2018 shipments versus the December 2017 shipments on an inshell equivalent were up approximately 12.5%. Total was 77,01...

The Almond Board of California has released the position report

Almonds Report

The Almond Board of California has released the position report with shipments of 199.6 million pounds compared to 204.5 million pounds last year for a decrease of 2.4 percent. DOMESTIC: 53.38 million pounds +0.8% EXPORT: 146.22 million pounds -3.5% ...

Desiccated coconut market

Desiccated coconut market

Although we are barely in to the new year, we have already begun to collate information from these origins with regard to the DC market and its prospects throughout 2019....

Turbulent time for Sesame

Turbulent time for Sesame

Don’t rely on crop data as prices trend will be deciding on arrival of new crop & overseas demand. Market went at year’s highest level, no farmers/stockiest came to show their interest to sell their stock, which proved low inventory & rai...