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All over Europe the weather has played an important in the fresh produce prices this week. Snow in Scandinavia keeps the customer out of the shops and frost in most part of Spain these days has turned a huge overproduction into only a small overproduction. Most producers have been waiting for christmas, which is the most important week of the year and expectations has been very high. Orders have even been cancelled as the producers were afraid they could not commit to the quantities. However, it seems this year we will not experience Christmas sale, it seems it has been cancelled even though, at least in Denmark, we are having the first white Christmas since 95 and only the seventh in 100 years. From our office in Puzol we can spot snow on the nearby mounts and temperatures fell 20 degrees from Sunday to Wednesday this week. However today it was 12 degrees warmer than yesterday so the polar conditions seemingly only came for a short visit.
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This will be the last info of the decade so we wish all a merry christmas and a prosperous new year. We will be back in 2010 with more information about Spanish fresh produce.
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Grow Source Import Package Distribute WEATNER PROGNOSIS FOR 18.12,24.12 AND THE 30.12
Avocado:
Celery:
Since avocado do nor ripe on the tree and the market is loaded with cheap chilean the growers has gone on early Christmas vacation. At the same time its raining most of the time in Malaga so very few kgs available from Spain and prices are rather steady.
Very veery nice green celery in sizes 14 to 18 Clementines:
Bunch carrots:
Although the volumes being loaded for export are much lesser than last year there are basically no clementines left in the warehouses and in the fields the words from the growers are that the trees are more or less out of fruits. This means that we expect the season of clementines to finish within the next 3 weeks and definitely before the 20 of January. And with that in mind we think prices are going up from now and until clementines finished. There are new good crops of Mandarins, i.e clemenvillas of good quality and not too difficult to peel.
very nice crop from cadiz
Corn:
Capsicum:
Still some corn but very few kgs available.
Huge supply of Ramiro, Capia and Palermo. This plant is yielding very few fruits so a grower need much higher prices than a normal pepper but this year the supply is much larger than demand and prices are very low, up to 50% lower than last year and now the first loads are coming in from Morocco. The demand on California peppers has gone from high to nothing and its expected that prices should fall, even though they have established minimum prices.
Courgettes:
Beetroot: New crop from cadiz Broccoli: Very few quantities and we expect increase in prices. They grow at very slow speed due to cold weather.
Cauliflower:
Goes a little up due to the cold weather. The quality is good and both yellow and green are available. Cucumbers: Only very few cucumbers in Almeria and Motril so prices rose last Monday with expectations of even higher prices but limited demand has only kept prices on the level or even lowered them. However still high compared to the disastrous season so far seen from growers point of view.
Good quality from Murcia and northspain. 6,8,10,12 pz with or without film. Expensive
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Eggplant:
Oranges:
Some difficulties with the quality due to the cold weather. As with cucumber the prices rose with expectations of even higher prices but from one day to another the demand fell a lot a now we foresee much lower prices than initially this week where they were very expensive.
Good quality and very nice iceberg. Much less crop than expected so logically prices ought to go up but the demand is poor so it seem that they actually can fall.
Very few kilos of navelina but absolutely no problem in supply. The demand is diminutive and prices rather low. For the coming varieties there should be much more kilo available since there are not the same waste in the fields as experienced with navelina. The prices of salustianas has gone down but maintain a decent level due to the few kilo of navelinas on the market. Rasperry: The cold weather has affected the volumes of raspberry. Fewer kilos available and prices has gone up. Right now they are doing inspections to determine if some crops has been damaged due to the cold weather.
Kaki:
Romane salad:
Considerable rise in demand, first and foremost on the important German market, but we still think tit should be possible to load well into February.
12 pz. Very nice and good and increasing demand
Kumquat:
Small volumes are being loaded for export this week. The demand is weak with lots of fruits of other origens and that puts pressure on the prices and because of this most producers are looking to sell their produce on the domestic market. Even with cold weather the available quantities are rising week by week.
Iceberg:
Due to rain it has been impossible to pick fruits so the new season has not yet begun Lemon: Now should be the most busy week of the year but nothing happens. The expected large Christmas and new year sales has not showed and there seem to be a little panic amongst producers. There are very very few lemons on the trees, maybe even fewer than 2 years ago when lemons were easily sold at 20 € and not you cannot even sell at half that price. Good quality of primofiori Little gem: 8x2 or 14x2 little gem in standar or luxury veersion. The quality and they close good together with the cold weather
Strawberry:
Tomatoes: Prices has gone up on all varieties due to fall in production. The quality on special tomatoes are excellent, however very few yellow cherry due to the cold weather. They don’t mature.
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