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California: Weekly tonnage as of 7 September 2024

09/09/2024

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 slowly decreasing, although still at a level just above the 5-year average to date.
 
For week ten (ending September 7th) PTAB is estimating 865,211 metric tonnes (t) (953,732 short tons) were delivered to the factories. Week eleven (ending September 14th) is estimated to be 857,096 t (944,787 short tons), which would bring the year-to-date total to an estimated 7,773,663 t (8,568,997 short tons).

The 2024 California Organic processing tomato deliveries for the week nine (ending August 31st) were 25,206 t (27,785 short tons). The total organic harvest is above the level of 2019 but still under the level of the last 4 years.

If the weekly projections come true, the projected quantities on September 14th would represent approximately 76% of the revised California processors' target (10.251 million t) and would be 12.4% above the average quantities delivered on the same date over past five years.


 

Sources: PTAB, CLFP