Monday, January 28, 2008

Weather & New Crop

It seems that weather and the coming of new crop are the most impacting influences at the moment. Lets take a look.

POTATOES:
Russets.........
>Idaho has had severe freezing temperatures for the last week and it doesn't look like they are going to warm up yet. This of course limits what they have available for shipping since they cannot transport their potatoes from storage to the packing shed. Thankfully the movement has been light so they aren't backed up in a bad way, they are though not trying to move anything extra. Even #2's are not available at a discount anymore.
>CO is still short of supplies and WI is having a good year with plenty of business which also means they are able to command a higher price.
>canada still has nice product

Reds..........
Still shipping from ND, WA, CA. Quality from WA is great and ND is shipping some nice product as well. CA is the normal light pink color. BIG NEWS>>> NEW CROP STARTING in FLORIDA February 1st!!! Product should be nice and pricing will be set this week.

Whites......
CA is the only option until FLORIDA starts next week. Quality in CA is not so great but it's all thats available. Love it or leave it.

Yukons.....
WA is cleaning up, CA is shipping, Canada is also an option for good quality.

ONIONS:
Yellows.....
First put your head in your hands and repeat after me..."UhhOhh". That's where we are in the the yellows onion deal. ID & WA have heavy volumes of JUmbo & Medium yellows with Mexico hot on their tails. Prices are at the bottom and shipper's are losing money packing them. WI, MI, NY & Canada also are very heavy in medium & prepak yellows. CO is cleaing up.

Reds....
Maintaing a nice price. No real movement either up or down.

Whites.....
WA & ID are shipping but quality is just soso. Good enough to get by if that's what you want. NV still in at higher prices and now Mexican whites available with good quality and more reasonable pricing.

Enjoy your week and keep the emails coming!

Freedom Kongvold
Philip G. Ball Co.
freedomk@epix.net

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