U.S. almond and walnut exports moved briskly during Q4 2018. Almond exports totaled 498.5 million pounds (shelled and in-shell basis), which was down less than 1 percent from Q4 2017’s record volume and was 26 percent higher than the five-year average for Q4. The [...]
Aug-Sep 2018/19 domestic almond shipments, at 117 million pounds, were just shy of last season’s record volume for the first two months of the marketing year, but export shipments of 206 million pounds began 2018/19 down 15 percent year over year. Shipments to China [...]
The extent of damage caused by February’s freeze is still being assessed. This year, mild temperatures in January led to early bloom across the state, which was then hit by a widespread freeze in mid-February that burned bloom in low-lying acres. According to Michigan [...]
