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California: Weekly tonnage as of 27 July 2024

29/07/2024

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 continue to be above the level of the 5-year average so far.
 
For week four (ending July 27th) PTAB is estimating 806,748 metric tonnes (t) (8896,287 short tons) were delivered to the factories. Week five (ending August 3rd) is estimated to be 965,796 t (1,064,608 short tons), which would bring the year-to-date total to an estimated 2,406,027 t (2,652,191 short tons).

The 2024 California Organic processing tomato deliveries for the week three (ending July 20th) were 56,161 t (61,907 short tons).

If the weekly projections come true, the projected quantities on August 3rd would represent approximately 23% of the California processors' target (10.43 million t) and would be 34,2% above the average quantities delivered on the same date over past five years.

Sources: PTAB, CLFP