August Fruit of the Month: California
Pluots
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Produce Market Report August 8, 2017
GOOD BUYS FOR THE WEEK
Seedless Local
Watermelons: Its peak
summer season and who
doesnt like to tuck into a
sweet, juicy slice of
watermelon this time of
year? These cut perfectly,
are deep red and delicious!
We have local yellow
watermelons tooa bit
higher in price but great!
Local Yellow, White &
Donut Peaches: This is a
great production year for
stone fruit from Virginia
and Pennsylvania.
Mangos: Still bargain
prices from Mexico.
Local Corner
Yellow, White & Donut Peaches
Red Seedless Watermelons
Yellow Watermelons
Blueberries
Blackberries
Beefsteak Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Zucchini & Yellow Squash
Heirloom Tomatoes
Mixed Cherry Tomatoes
White & Bi-Color Corn
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Pluots are extremely sweet, due to very high sugar lev-
els, derived as they are from plums and apricots-both
high in sweetness and nutrition. They are high in vita-
min C and A and are very low in fat, making them ideal
for snacking or sweetening up other dishes.
California Peaches,
Nectarines, Red & Black
Plums: Heading into peak
stone fruit season out west!
Strawberries: Very nice
berries from Central Valley
and Salinas with good prices.
Green & Red Leaf,
Romaine & Boston
Lettuce: Excellent quality and
pricing on these. Iceberg is
still up in price this week.
Cauliflower: Plentiful
supplies with much lower
prices.
Corn: Local corn now coming
into its own with great quality
and good prices.
Celery: Salinas production
has kicked in; prices down.
Virginia
Delaware
Virginia
NJ
Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
MD, VA & PA
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Virginia
Maryland, PA
KEEP IN MIND WATCH
GOOD BUYS
Cherries: Good news and bad Raspberries: Continued very
news if you are a cherry lover. tight supplies now leading to
Watermelons
Prices are down a bit with an extreme pro-rated market.
Peaches, Nectarines plentiful Bing cherry supplies
& Plums from Washington. Bad news is Avocados: Availability is
Mangos Rainier season is over. tight from Mexico and
California is not shipping its
Strawberries
Red, Green & Black Grapes: normal level of supplies.
Green Leaf, Red Leaf, Really nice quality and good Prices are up a bit.
Romaine & Boston
pricing on all varieties.
Cauliflower Spring Mix, Clipped
Corn Spinach & Cello Cilantro:
Continued risky conditions for
Celery
delicate leaf products out of
California. Some shippers are
KEEP IN MIND
not pre-cooling cilantro and
clipped spinach before
Pluots Cantaloupes & Honeydews: packing and we have
Continued high sugar levels and discovered severe wilting on
Cherries
excellent quality on all melons some deliveries. We have
Red & Green Grapes
from the Westside. Dont miss taken steps to assure that
Cantaloupe & out!
Honeydew Melons anything shipped from Keany
facilities is good but
Blackberries Blackberries: Local shortages are the result.
Blueberries blackberry season will be over
after this week. Cole Berry
Lemons Brussels Sprouts: Market is
Farm is the only one still super hot with Mexico
Limes shipping local berries. shortages and first of
Asparagus
domestic production lagging.
Iceberg Lettuce Blueberries: Now from
Michigan with elevated prices. Tomatoes: Wet weather
WATCH conditions combined with
Lemons: Prices finally came exceedingly high heat has
Raspberries down out of California and caused problems for some
Avocados quality is better. shippers. Again, we are
Spring Mix, Clipped sifting through our product to
Spinach & Cilantro Limes: Prices up a bit now. send you the best available.
Brussels Sprouts
Tomatoes Asparagus: Prices backed off Acorn & Spaghetti
Brussels Sprouts a bit this week. Good quality. Squashes: Very high now.
Acorn, Spaghetti
Iceberg Lettuce: Still
Squashes
stubbornly high priced.
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