Category: Crop News

United States A cold and wet spring in the Pacific Northwest delayed pea plantings and the crop ran about 2 to 3 weeks late. July’s heat wave with sizzling temperatures well into the 100 degree and over mark, brought on the crop very quickly. Acres have been lost as some processors could not keep up …

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United States A cold and wet spring in the Pacific Northwest delayed pea plantings and the crop is running about 2 to 3 weeks late. June was extremely cool and wet in Oregon and Washington and rainfall hit record highs. Along with the rain there was some wind and we have heard that some fields …

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United States A cold and wet spring in the Pacific Northwet delayed pea planting which in turn has delayed the start of the season by about 1 or two weeks. We expect harvesting to commence in the next week or so depending on weather. In general the weather has been cool which is good for …

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United States Green pea planting is completed. Recent cold weather and snow delayed plantings and we could see some reduced crop yields due to the unusual weather conditions in April. We do not anticipate a start date on green pea harvest until the early part of June. Sweet corn plantings are underway and to date …

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United States Green pea and potato planting still underway. Corn plantings are just beginning. Securing enough contracted acreage has been a struggle as growers have many other more profitable options to consider and processors are paying more to the growers this year. Most processors are planning on same volumes as last season or even a …

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United States Green pea and potato plantings should begin this week as long as the cold and snow stay away. Corn planting should commence at the end of this month/early April. Due to logistic challenges (not being able to ship product) there are still inventories of corn available to purchase, however prices remain high with …

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United States Early summer heat took its toll on the Green Pea crop and all processors are 20% to 50% below budget. Temperatures between 105 – 117 degrees made it difficult to keep up with the harvest and many processors had to leave their peas in the ground. Dry land pea fields suffered the most. …

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United States Early summer heat took its toll on the Green Pea crop and all processors are 20% to 50% below budget. Temperatures between 105 – 117 degrees made it difficult to keep up with the harvest and many processors had to leave their peas in the ground. Dry land pea fields suffered the most. …

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United States Early summer heat took its toll on the Green Pea crop and all processors are 20% to 50% below budget. Temperatures between 105 – 117 degrees made it difficult to keep up with the harvest and many processors had to leave their peas in the ground. Dry land pea fields suffered the most. …

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United States Early summer heat took its toll on the Green Pea crop and most processors are 20% to 50% below budget.  Extreme heat with temperatures between 105 – 117 degrees made it difficult to keep up with the harvest and many processors had to leave their peas in the ground.  Dry land pea fields …

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United States Early summer heat took its toll on the Green Pea crop and most processors are 20% to 50% below budget. Extreme heat with temperatures between 105 – 117 degrees made it difficult to keep up with the harvest and many processors had to leave their peas in the ground. Dry land pea fields …

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United States Green Pea market very short. The early summer heat took its toll on the Green Pea crop and most processors are 20% to 50% below budget. Extreme heat with temperatures between 105 – 117 degrees made it difficult to keep up with the harvest and many processors had to leave their peas in …

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United States Green Pea harvest is now completed.  The early summer heat took its toll on the Green Pea crop and most processors are 20% to 50% below budget.  Extreme heat with temperatures between 105 – 117 degrees made it difficult to keep up with the harvest and many processors had to leave their peas …

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United States Green Pea harvest is now on the wind down in the Pacific Northwest.   Continued extreme heat with temperatures between 105 – 117 degrees over the last week will hurt the pea crop outcome. Green Pea conditions are not good as many fields were lost to heat.   Processors had a very difficult time keeping …

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United States Green Pea harvest is now underway in the Pacific Northwest.   High temperatures over the last week has brought on the season quickly.  Dry land pea fields are suffering due to lack of rain, and we may see a 40% to 50% reduction on yields for those that grow on dry land without irrigation.   …

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United States Pea plantings are now completed, with green pea processing in the Northwest expected to begin end May /first week of June.   Sweet corn and green bean plantings now underway with about 20% to 25% of sweet corn in the ground in the Pacific Northwest.   Commodity prices on grain corn and soybean rose sharply …

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United States Potato and green pea planting is currently underway.   To date at least 50% of the green peas are in the ground in the Northwest area.   Sweet corn and green bean plantings should begin sometime this month, while Midwest pea plantings should start sometime in the next week or two.  USDA predicts farmers will …

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United States Potato and pea planting should commence this week or next.  Grower negotiations are still ongoing.  Grower prices for raw material sweet corn is expected to increase about 10% to 15% this year in the Northwest while we have heard Midwest region expecting increases of as high as 20%. USDA predicts farmers will plant …

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United States Potato market conditions still uncertain due to covid.  While retail sales for frozen potatoes has surged by about 19%, foodservice sales are still looking dim compared to a year ago.  U.S. frozen product production declined by about 8% during the 12 months ending November 30th.   There could be some processing supply constraints for …

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United States With sweet corn shortages in the Midwest region and Europe, coming into season with lower than usual inventories, plus some loss of yields here in the Pacific Northwest, expect for a tight sweet corn market with prices firm going forward.  Most Northwest suppliers are officially off market, for the time being. Carrot harvest …

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