Tomato supplies are extremely tight as regional seasons wind down and new districts get underway. Recent storms have disrupted autumn growing regions, causing prices to escalate.

Quality and Planning

• Expect low volume over the next four to six weeks
• Quality issues will include variable color, firmness, and weakened shelf life during the regional transitions
• Markon advises ordering to current needs, managing safety stock carefully, and maintaining size flexibility
• Elevated markets may persist through Thanksgiving or longer, depending on storm impacts and the pace of Florida production

Rounds

• East Coast
  • Production in Tennessee and Virginia is ending
  • Georgia harvests have started; volume is low
  • Florida growers have started the Quincy season; supplies are limited as heat and rain caused bloom drop
    • Quincy received three to five inches of rain from Hurricane Isaias
    • Growers continue to evaluate fields this week
    • Production will resume this weekend
  • Florida’s Ruskin/Palmetto season will start with low volume in early November
• Mexico
  • Baja yields remain critically low following recent heavy rain and wind
  • Cyclonic storms continue to form off Western Mexico and Baja, threatening remaining crops
  • Central Mexico is contributing supplies, but overall availability remains tight
• California
  • Central California production is declining as growers finish for the season
  • Large rounds will remain limited through late October

Romas

• East Coast
  • Quincy and North Florida will contribute low yields until production starts in Ruskin/Palmetto on November 9
  • Growers are assessing crops after Hurricane Isaias and expecting limited supplies
• Mexico
  • Baja and Central Mexico stocks are tight; quality ranges from fair to good
  • Hurricane Simon shifted west overnight and is expected to downgrade to a tropical storm over the next day, bringing rain to the Baja Peninsula
• California

• Production is tapering as California growers wrap up seasonal programs; open-market volume will remain limited

• • Remaining growers may offer limited supplies through late October

Grape and Cherry

• East Coast
  • Supplies are extremely short as Virginia and other regional programs wind down
  • Recent weather has increased culling and reduced usable volume

• Early Ruskin/Palmetto yields should be tight, but will increase in November

• Mexico
  • Baja and Central Mexico availability remains very limited; quality is fair
  • Supplies may increase as new acreage starts later this month

Please contact your Markon Account Manager for more information.

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