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California: Weekly tonnage as of 14 September 2024

16/09/2024

Madeleine Royère-Koonings
California,
North America
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The harvest season started a few days earlier than in previous years, with small quantities of organic tomatoes. Figures collected by the PTAB show that California processing tomato deliveries are continuing to decrease, although the year-to-date total is still above the 5-year average to date.
 
For week eleven (ending September 14th) PTAB is estimating 791,926 metric tonnes (t) (872,949 short tons) were delivered to the factories. Week twelve (ending September 21st) is estimated to be 791,657 t (872,652 short tons), which would bring the year-to-date total to an estimated 8,486,330 t (9,354,578 short tons).

The 2024 California Organic processing tomato deliveries for the week ten (ending September 7th) were 24,813 t (27,352 short tons). The total organic harvest is above the level of 2019 but stays under the level of the last 4 years.

If the weekly projections come true, the projected quantities on September 14th would represent approximately 83% of the revised California processors' target (10.251 million t) and would be 9.4% above the average quantities delivered on the same date over past five years.

Sources: PTAB, CLFP