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Friday the 20th of November the agricultural sector will be in a large scale strike and the 21st there will be a massive demonstration in Madrid. The 3 largest unions has come to an agreement and wil strike together with 40.000 irrigators. The problems of the irrigators is that they have invested new more efficient machinery but with a 90% increase in the energy prices over a year they claim its impossible to continue distribute water to the growers. We expect the period to be paralyzed with few to none activity in the sector.
Product Trends
In valencia they are worried abouth plagues coming in from oversea citrus products. This year the import of south african citrus has been only half of last year due to restrictions but the plaques has risen to record high 68% in all the containers controlled. Bear in mind Spain is the most sensible country to citrus plagues so probably citrus coming in different ports of Europos will not be quarantained. If the plagues will extend to the valencian fields we risk to see somthing similar of what has happened to the kaki with up to 80% of the crop lost. The unions in Valencia wants to totally ban import of South African citrus.
Weather
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Avocado:
Capsicum:
Due to strong wind this week there has been a lot of Hass falling from the trees and some or many of these has been marketed. They begin to pack of better and safe quality this week. Right now they are only on 25% of normal capacity and until December there will be few quantities. In Green skin there are only small sizes due to too much heat in summer and too littel water. They are awaiwint some rain so the fruits can grow.
Huge quantities and little to no demand. Yellow is cheap and red also. Only green and orange maintain a little. Sweet bite is ready and Palermo, Ramiro and Capia in all colours as well. A culinaric experience on same level as the organic cherry tomato is the yellow capia. It has a brix of 8 compared to 7 of the orange and the familiar sweet red snack is down to 6 degrees.....Beware of the different qualities. Capsicum with thin wall is still a problem and their comercial life is far shorter than the caps of better quality. The chili pepper is now of good quality also.
Beans: Both Spain and maroc been on the market. Broccoli: Large quantities and good quality.
Cauliflower: Super quality and all sizes. Very very tasty and tender now with the new crop Celery: starts now week 47 with the first departures
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Clementines: The volumes of clementines are rising but without prices going down. Growers are not in a hurry to sell this year and further to that the extreme heat this year ( hottest october since 1971) the fruits are not taking colour on the trees and warehouses are less busy. The exporting warehouses are in a situation they are not used to as they can claim reasonable prices since new markets as for instance Poland are paying rather high prices and cant even get the demanded quantities. Right now there is now indication that prices will fall and if there are any movements it will most probably be a rise in prices as we are getting close to the peak of the season. However it has proven to be very difficult to prognostic the tendency with prices and makink fixed season prices has been almost impossible. Courgettes:
made small programs and there is a panic now sending trucks up through europe without destination.
Iceberg: Good quality that only gets better since its getting colder but now maybe a little too light. The cyclus of Iceberg is now 65 days compared to the normal 90. They are in other words far ahead in harvesting and they now predict a huge gap in production the last week of the year or the first week in the new year. Depending of course of the climate.
Steady prices and good quality Cucumber: Lots of optimism when the temperatures fell from Monday to Tuesday and relatively hiogh prices on the auktions Monday morning.....then came the sun back and temperatures rose back to 20+ in daytime and above 14 during night. Prices has been falling continously since Monday and already now full trocks are being offered way below cost of production. Until temperatures will maintain steady under 15 in daytime and 5 during night there is nothing that indictas prices will rise. Many supermarkes have
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Kaki:
Oranges:
The sharon and Persimon of Huelva has prooved to be in perfect conditions. No skin damages and no overriped fruits and no black pulps...Hopefully they will eliminate the problem soon in Valencia. Its a complete disaster and up to 80% are wastes this season. Prices remain steady with the Valencian Kaki as an incognito ! if there is any good qualty they will be expensive and if they are cheap probably its because the quality is still poor.
Although the prices are high compared to other seasons we are finally seeing a tendency of lower prices which however probably will last no longer than few weeks since the waste of Naveline in the field is up to 40%
Lemon: Is there many cheap Spanish lemons on the free markets ?? There are some cheap to be found but how man. In Spain they say different. No sizes and growers are not negotiating prices. Hences prices remain high and its virtually impossible to make full programs in the same size. Prices will rather go up the coming weeks and they are in no hurry to sell. The demand will come sooner or later and with the increasing quality problems with other origens soon there will be mainly Spanish lemon on the market. Little gem: Continues with usual good quality
Pomegranade: still nice quality and prices remain steady although they will soon rise. Rasperry: Increasing production in the varieties with double cyclus. Good quality of Glen Lyon and Brilliant and lots of problems with Sugana. The volumes are increasing as we are getting closer to christmas. Romane salad: Problem because of the strong winds. They are taking of the outer leaves since they have been damaged so we do not recommend loading until the next crop not affeed is ready. I.e in 4 days Stawberry: Plants have been put again since they were too affected by the heat the last weeks and seemingly the temperatures will decline now. But the strawberries are very much depending of the climate right now. First Maroc is marketed with departure from Spain.
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Tomatoes:
Xanadu:
Lots of tomatoes and low prices. Many cherry and plum cherry and low prices. The demand of trimix is increasing. The sunstream and rhe romantico are very tasty now. There is a novelty underway which is a Kumato Cherry....a Black cherry with same characteristic as the Kumato. On the biologic front the quality is absolutely excellent and the say with longer commercial life than treated tomatoes. The aroma is superb and particulary the bio cherry is tasty with brix 2 points higher than the conventional...Maybe worth trying and the price differential is not too excessive.
This novelty is what is considering to be replacing little gem. Full grown it has the same size as the little gem, or a little larger, but its does not have the bitternes of the little gem. Its sweet as its cousin the Romaine salad but more tender and with much more dark green leaves.
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