Melons – Apples and Pears – Avocados – Vegetables – Berries – Potatoes and Onions

Melons:
Seedless water melons have become extremely short and smaller sizes are the norm. Melons are cutting light red with moderate sugars. The cantaloupe and honeydew markets are both easing, we’ll see good prices through the month of September. Quality has been excellent.
Apples & pears:
California has started new crop fuji’s, gala’s, and granny’s.New crop reds out of Washington are still a few weeks away and storage supplies are dwindling. California Bartlett pears are picking up volume. New crop D’anjou pears out of Washington should hit next week with significantly higher prices. We are also seeing nice supplies on bosc, seckel, comice, asian,and French butter pears.
Avocados:
We will have California fruit in stock for the majority of this week and transition to Chilean fruit by the weekend. Look for prices to drop significantly. Please note the early Chilean avo’s will have minimal oil and will not resemble the flavor or texture of California product. The Mexican crop is expected to start in about 3 weeks.
Vegetables:
Yellow bell peppers have become very scarce. Substitute red or green if possible. Eggplant and cucumbers continue to slowly creep up as supplies dwindle. Asparagus should come off as more volume is expected.
Berries: It looks like the strawberry market is stable despite the heat.Blackberries will be limited, expect higher prices. Quality has been very good.
Potatoes and onions:
The russet potato market continues to drop this week as production increases. Quality has been excellent. Red potatoes are scarce and prices are rising on premium quality spuds. Yellow and red onions look to be stable this week.

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