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grape farming is setting a record in grape production
Of course, RollingBlunder knows this, I just posted this in another thread in environment, but I guess for some the truth is not important.
California growers expect large crop of quality grapes despite challenges - The Produce News - Covering fresh produce around the globe since 1897.
There are more articles, some dealing exclusively with table Grapes.
Of course, RollingBlunder knows this, I just posted this in another thread in environment, but I guess for some the truth is not important.
California growers expect large crop of quality grapes despite challenges - The Produce News - Covering fresh produce around the globe since 1897.
California growers expect large crop of quality grapes, despite challenges
by Rand Green | July 25, 2014
It is not easy being a farmer anywhere, and it has certainly not been easy in recent years to be a grape grower in California in the face of a plethora of challenges, ranging from drought exacerbated by government-imposed limitations on agricultural water use to rising labor costs and a maze of ever-intensifying regulatory pressures.
Yet thus far, California grape growers have been able to meet the challenges and turn out ever-increasing volumes of high-quality grapes in an expanding array of varieties.
Plantings of Scarlet Royal red seedless grapes, a relatively new variety, have increased significantly in California's San Joaquin Valley in recent years for the mid- to late season. (Photo courtesy of Sundale Sales)Last year was a record year for California grape shipments, with a record 116.2 million boxes of grapes (19-pound equivalent) going to market. For 2014, the crop was officially estimated at just over that — 116.5 million boxes — at the season’s start. The California Table Grape Commission revisited the estimate at its meeting on July 17 and reaffirmed that number, notwithstanding some early vineyards in the San Joaquin Valley picking out a little lighter than growers had anticipated, attesting their confidence that if all went as expected, strong volumes would be realized throughout the balance of the season.
In the San Joaquin Valley, California’s largest grape growing region, the 2014 harvest started earlier than usual — earlier than ever for some growers — with varieties coming off from one week to as much as two weeks earlier than average.
There are more articles, some dealing exclusively with table Grapes.