Conventional Fruit. Market Updates September 7, 2016

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1 Conventional Fruit Apples: From Borton Marketing, new crop premium and USXF Jonagold Apples now in stock. From Pride Packing, new crop Premium, Fancy, and Bin Fuji apples are available. Also from Pride Packing, we have Premium Gold Delicious and Premium Gala. Premium Smitten Apples are still available to order. Apricots: Panta Pack 3 layer 80 series and 24lb VF apricots are in stock from Kingsburg Orchards. Bananas: Chiquita Bananas are in stock with a steady market for next week in supply and cost. Dole Baby & Plantain Bananas in stock with steady markets. Berries: Strawberries Market is steady. Blackberries market is stronger on Northwest berries. Blueberries Market is stronger. 12/6oz are in stock. Raspberries Market is steady on Driscoll s. Cantaloupe: Market is steady on 9 ct and 12 ct Cantaloupe. 14 Bin Cantaloupe in stock and moves to a special order when gone. Citrus Variety: 15/2lb and 10/3lb bag clementines in stock. Peruvian Minneolas are in stock. Chilean Murcotts are tight and expensive right now. Figs: Black Mission Fig pints are steady. Brown Turkey and Green Kadota fig pints are finished. Grapes: Welches Red, Green, and Black seedless grapes are in stock in bags and clamshells, markets are steady and promotable. Pretty Lady Red, Green, and Black seedless grapes are in stock and markets are steady and promotable. Look for the Hobgoblin label to being shipping the middle of next week, Hobgoblin display bins will be available next week as well. Value P/L Green grapes in stock. Red Globe down in price. Lunch Bunch snack grapes in stock. Welches 1lb Champagne grapes in stock. Washington Concord grapes are in stock. Grapefruit: California grapefruit are very short this week and market is tight. 23 and 32 counts are in stock. Honeydew: Market is steady on Honeydew with 5 and 6 count in stock. Italian Prunes: Italian Prunes, 30lb Volume Fill, from Washington in stock. 12/2lb Pouch bags are now in stock. Kiwi Fruit: Chilean Kiwi market is steady. Zespri SunGold volume filled and 10/1# bags in stock. 9/7/16 Page 1

2 Conventional Fruit Cont. Lemons: Lemon market steady right now. Deals are on 75 and 95 counts. Limes: Lime market is high this week. 110 size is going to be cheapest right now. Mangos: Jumbo Keitt Mangos 4/5 count are in stock and a good supply this week. The smaller size mango market is steady. Melons: Personal Market is steady on personal melons. 9ct Dulcinea in stock. Watermelons Market is steady on bin seeded and seedless. Melons: Variety Variety melons market is steady. In stock now: Peacock label Galia, Orange Flesh, Canari, Sharlyn, and Crenshaw. Nectarines: Pride Packing has yellow and white nectarines available to order and are very promotable now through September. Panta Packs, 24lb VF, 14lb Pouch Bags, and 24lb Farmer Pack all in stock. Promotional opportunity continues on 54/56 Panta pack Yellow nectarines. Big market savings! Oranges: Chilean and Australian Navels are in stock this week. Valencias are available in both choice and fancy. New crop Aussie Blood and Chilean Cara Cara oranges are in stock and ready to order. Papaya: The Hawaiian Papaya market is higher. 8 and 9 count Hawaiian papayas are available. 9 count Maradol papayas will be available for the end of the week. Star Fruit: New Crop Florida 30 count is in stock now and up a little. Peaches: Pride Packing has yellow and white peaches available to order and are very promotable now through September. Panta Packs, 24lb VF, 14lb Pouch Bags, and 24lb Farmer Pack all in stock. VF Elberta Peaches from Hood River now in stock. Promotional opportunity continues on 54/56 Panta pack Yellow and white peaches. Yellow Donut Peaches, 30 series, in stock. Pears: Hood River Bartlett, Anjou, Golden Bosc, and Starkrimson, US#1 And Fancy in stock. Crunchy gold asian pears from Kingsburg Orchard in stock in 14 Euro One Layers. Wells and Sons has Bartlett Starkrimson, Anjou and Bosc Pears in stock. Pineapple: The Del Monte Pineapple market is steady on all sizes. 6, 7, and 8 counts are available this week. Plums: California US No. 1 and Farmer Pack 30 series Red and Black plums in stock and markets are steady. 15/2lb Pouch Bag plums in stock. NW grown, 28lb Empress, President and Friar Plums in stock. Pluots: Dinosaur Egg Pluots in stock now and next week. From Family Tree One pound clamshell pluots in stock Pomegranates: California grown 20/22ct and 30/32 count Pomegranates will be in stock for the end of the week. Look for the new Angel Red variety. 9/7/16 Page 2

3 Conventional Vegetables Anise: Market is steady on Anise this week. Artichokes: Artichoke market is steady on 12 count and 24 count short stem. Asparagus: Market is stronger on Mexico 11lb large, on 11lb standard, 11lb jumbo, and 11lb small. Artisan Broccoli: Market is steady on Artisan Sweet Broccoli from Tanimura & Antle. 18 count is in stock. Avocados: Hurricane Newton has driven up the market and supplies are tight. California is 93% finished, light supplies. Peru supply finished. Rain in Mexico is slowing their harvest. 48 count and larger fruit are extremely short and strong. 60, 70, and 84 counts are extremely short and strong. 20/3# bag Avocados are stronger. Beans Green: Orange County label from California are in stock now and the market is higher. Oregon grown from Case Farms are gapping until middle of next week. Beets: Market is steady on 12ct bunches, 25lb bag Red beets, Chiogga and 25lb Gold beets. Love beets, 12/8.8oz in stock and promotional opportunity on Organic Love beets. Bok Choy and Nappa: Market is steady on Northwest Bok Choy, Nappa Cabbage, & California Baby Bok Choy. Broccoli/Cauliflower: Market is steady on Broccoli and Cauliflower this week. Brussles Sprouts: Market is steady on Brussels Sprouts. Cabbage: Market is steady on Northwest Red and Savoy Cabbage and Green Cabbage. Carrots: Market is steady on Cello, Peeled Carrots, 25# Jumbo, 25# Juice and 50# Clip Top carrots. Celery: Market is steady on celery this week. 9/7/16 Page 3

4 Conventional Vegetables Cont. Cilantro: Market is strong on cilantro this week from Boskovich and on Local Cilantro from Cal Farms & Carpinito. Corn: Market is steady. Schlecter Farms Lake Labish carton Yellow and White in stock. Northwest bin yellow, white and Bi-color in stock. Cucumbers Regular: Market is steady on 36 and 72ct Plains. Cucumbers Euro: 12 count on hand out of Canada. Market is up a little. Pickling Cucumbers: 25# Washington in stock now. Gherkin Pickles available on request. Eggplant: Market is steady on eggplant this week. Local product will be back next week. Daikon/Green Onions/Radishes: Market is stronger on 20# bulk Daikon. Green Onion market is weaker on iceless from Boskovich and Iced from Cerighino Farms. Oregon Radishes from Cal Farms is in stock and steady this week. Greens: Market is steady on NW Collards and Mustard greens. It is steady on NW Red and Green Chard. California Endive & Escarole market is steady. NW Green and California Tuscan Kale is steady. Radicchio and Belgium Endive are steady. Leeks: Market is steady on Ralph s Greenhouse Washington Leeks. Lettuce: Iceburg The Iceburg market is stronger this week. Leaf Green and Red Leaf is steady on California product and on NW product. Romaine Lettuce market is steady on California and steady on NW Romaine. Mushrooms: White and Brown mushrooms supplies are tight this week. Portabella mushrooms are in good supplies this week. Onion: Regular NW JBO Yellow Onions market is steady on local product. NW Red Jumbo market is steady. White market is steady. Sweet Walla Wallas have finished up for the season. Bulk Red Italian sweets in stock Hermiston Sweets now in stock. Parsley: Market is steady on Italian and Curly Parsley from Boskovich and Cal Farms. Peppers, Bell: Green Market is steady out of Washington on L/XL sizes; California market is higher. Choice market is higher out of Washington. Hot House Market is steady on all sizes. Field Red market is lower and Yellow market is lower. Peppers, Chili: The Chili Pepper market is steady right now with Local Chilis from Washington and Oregon. Supplies are plentiful and very promotable. Tomatillos still coming out of Mexico this week. 9/7/16 Page 4

5 Conventional Vegetables Cont. Peppers, Specialty: Mini Sweet Pepper market is stonger on 18/1# and 9/2# bags this week. Ginger market is gaining a bit of strength this week. Potatoes: Color Market is steady on Red and Yukon Golds out of Washington. White Rose market is steady. Tasteful Selections in stock and supplies are steady. Russet Market is steady on cartons and bag russets, all new crop. Idaho Burbank s/kennebec s are steady with good supply. Rapini: Market is steady on Rapini this week. Rhubarb: Market is strong on 20lb Field Rhubarb. Once inventory is gone, they are done. Root Vegetables: Market is steady on Rutabagas, Parsnips, and Turnips. Shallots/Garlic: 20/1lb shallots in stock. Bulk shallots are tight. Garlic market is steady. Snow and Snap Peas: The market is strong on Snap Peas and on Snow Peas. Spinach: Carpinito is in a supply gap on Northwest spinach. Boskovich is in stock. Squash: Soft Zucchini market is steady with light local supply on hand. Yellow Squash local market is finished. Grey Squash is steady. Hard Market is steady on all NW Hard Squash. Local Bins, all varieties will start this week, including mixed variety bins. Tomatoes: Round and Roma tomatoes markets are expesive and very tight right now. Grape tomato market is higher and cherry tomato market is higher. Cluster tomatoes and the 1 Layer Hot House tomatoes are up a little this week. Tomatoes, Specialty: From Village Farms promote Yellow Cherry tomatoes. Limited Edition snack tomatoes in stock; look for Cherry, Red & Golden Grape, and Mixed Medley. From Sunset, promote 1lb Kumatos. 2lb Roma Tomatoes in stock and promotable from Pinos Produce of San Diego. Promote 4ct Vertuosos Vine Tomatoes from Windset Farms. Yams: New crop #1 and Medium Beauregard Yams in stock. New crop #1 Sweet Potatoes in stock. Yam and Sweet market is high with all new crop coming out of Dallas. 9/7/16 Page 5

6 Organic Fruit Apples: New crop Washington Honeycrisp in 27# Euro and 40# boxes are in stock. New Crop Washington Fuji, Gala, Gold, Grannysmith are weaker. Red Delicious are due today. Macintosh are in stock from Canada. New Crop Jonagold are in stock. Cripps Pink are done untill new crop starts. Braeburn are done until new crop starts in late September. Bag apples: we currently have 12/3# Gold, Cripps Pink, & Fuji; and 12/2# Gala in stock. 12/2# Granny due this week. Bananas: Market is steady on bananas this week on product of Mexico and Ecuador. Berries: Market is steady on California Well Pict Strawberries. Raspberry market is very tight and prorates from Driscolls. Blueberry market is stronger on all packs as Washington finishes up. 12/6oz in stock. Blackberry market is steady from Driscolls this week. Citrus: Organic Satsuma Tangerines and Tangelos out of Peru are in stock. Market is stronger on 95/115ct lemons. Lime market is up a little and very tight, 200ct and 12/1# in stock. 48ct Rio Grapefruit are steady out of California. Grapes: Market is steady on Anthony Organics Red, Green and Black seedless 19# grapes. Size, condition and flavor are very good. Anthony label 8/2# clamshell green and red grapes in stock. Kiwi: Market is steady on 33ct, volume fill and 20/1# cases. Organic 10/1# pouch bag Gold Kiwi are in stock. Mangos: Market is stronger and 8ct are in stock. Melons: Organic Cantaloupe melons are stronger. New crop Hermiston organic cantaloupe is weaker. Organic honeydew are stronger, 6ct available. Black Seedless Watermelons are steady. Market is stronger on Mini Seedless melons, 6 and 11 count in stock. Oranges: Market is steady on 10/4# bags of Valencia Oranges. New Crop 56, 88, and 113 count Valencia Oranges are steady. Navels are done. Pears: New crop Washington 70&90 count Bartlett pears are in steady. New crop Bosc and Anjou pears are steady out of NW. Switching to an Organic 18 count Hosui Asian Pear due today. 12/2# Bartlett and Starkrimson in stock. Pineapple: We have 8ct Pineapples in stock this week and market is steady. Deal on 6 count for this week. Soft Fruit: New crop Washington 40 series peaches and nectarines are stronger with 2 weeks left. 28# Volume Fill 30ct Red/Black Plums in stock and steady. 28# Washington VF Flavor Fall Plouts are in stock. 9/7/16 Page 6

7 Organic Vegetables Avocados: Organic 48ct and 60ct are very strong. Organic 32ct avocados are also stronger this week. 12/2# bags in stock this week. Beets: Figure to remain steady on gold and red bunch. Broccoli: Broccoli will be steady this week with local available and some deals available. Baby broccoli will remain steady. Cabbage: Green is down a little and Red is tight but steady. Bok Choy will be steady this week. Carrots: Peeled carrots and Cello carrots are steady from Northwest. Bunch carrots market is up a little. Cauliflower: Organic Cauliflower market will be steady this week. Celery: Celery market will be steady and cheap this week. Cucumber: Cucumbers market will r steady this week. Greens: Green, Rainbow, and Red Chard markets are steady from the Northwest. Green and Red Kale remain steady from the Northwest. Leeks from Ralph s are now available. Herbs: Cilantro is steady with Nortwest product in stock. Curly and Italian Parsley will remain steady. Lettuce: Green and Red Leaf lettuce will be stronger from Cal-Organic. Romain lettuce from Cal-Organic will be up. Iceburg lettuce will be steady. Living Butter is steady from Hollandia. Mushrooms: Steady on package and bulk brown and white mushrooms. And a steady market on Portabella and Shiitake Mushrooms. Onions: Green Onions will be steady out of the Northwest. Yellow Onions are steady on 40lb jumbo and 16/3# bags. Red Onions will be steady on both 40lb jumbo and 16/3# bags. 9/7/16 Page 7

8 Organic Vegetables Cont. Peppers: Organic Orange and Yellow Bell Peppers will be steady this week from Canada/Holland. Organic Green Bell Peppers coming in from Oregon this week. Organic Red Peppers from Canada and Holland will be steady. Potatoes: Organic Yukon Gold A Potatoes and 16/3# bags will be steady from the NW. Red A potatoes and 16/3# bags will be steady from NW. Organic Russet Potatoes from the NW and 16/3# bags will be steady next week. All are in stock and available. Squash: Zucchini squash is very tight and NW is gapping. Yellow squash will be very strong this week. Hard Squash is steady with Nortwest Inaba starting this week. Tomatoes: Roma tomatoes are very tight. Del Cabo Cherry will come down in price a little. Grapes from Del Cabo are steady. Beefsteaks are tight. TOV s steady out of USA and Canada will be steady. 10# Mixed Heirlooms from Durst are down a little. California open pint cherry and grape tomatoes from Durst available and market steady; good supplies through October. Promote This Week: Conventional Fruit: Bin Fuji from Pride Packig Welches seedless grapes Hobgoblin Grapes Concord Grapes Orange Flesh Melons Zespri Sungold Kiwi Jumbo Keitt Mangos Dinosaur Egg Pluots Angel Red Pomegranates Pride VF Peaches and Nectarines Conventional Vegetables: Artichokes Kumato Tomatoes Beachside Cauliflower Bin white, yellow, and bicolor corn Variety Bin Squash Mini Pumpkins Artisan Sweet Red Onions 2lb Bag Roma Tomatoes Yellow Cherry tomatoes from Villiage Farms Organics: Red Delicious Apples 165ct Lemons Taylor Farms Vegetables Pomegranates 6ct Pineapple Steem and Savor Potatoes 10/1# Pouch Bag Gold Kiwi NW Hard Squash Local Broccoli Anthony 8/2# Green and Red Grapes To Stay Connected with United Salad Click on a Link Below Join Our List To Receive Weekly Promotions Follow 9/7/16 Page 8