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California: State of the harvest as of 13 October

17/10/2017

2017 Season
Press release
PTAB
California,
North America
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PTAB projects the harvest will conclude by October 21st with a total of 10,463,000 tons harvested. A projected number of 157,000 tons to be harvested between October 8th and October 21st has been given. Only three companies will operate during these final weeks of the 2017 California processing tomato harvest.
The later start combined with reoccurring heat waves, resulted in the lowest tonnage since 2006. With the anticipated finish of 10,463,000 tons the harvest will be off 9% of the August 2017 USDA estimate of 11,500,000 tons. 
 
Farming practices have resulted in good yields over the past six years. In fact, they have not dipped below 47 tons per acre. If the 230,000 harvested acres, as reported in the August 2017 USDA estimate, remains the same, the 2017 field yield will be 45.49 tons per acre. The last time it was close to this was in 2010. 
 
California’s Southern Counties continue to dominate delivering 223,623 out of the 408,719 year to date (week ending October 7, 2017) loads delivered. Of the 223,623 loads, Fresno County alone has delivered a whopping 144,319 loads.

Sources: PTAB, WestConFoods

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