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The typical post-holiday decline in demand has resulted in an almost-across-the-board drop in FOB prices on western vegetables, but cold weather and a seemingly unending string of storms has kept some prices at a relatively high level this month.
“Celery is still in the mid-$50s,” said Adam Sides of Boskovich Farms in Oxnard, CA, noting that demand dropped off as expected right after the holiday, but cooler temperatures and heavy rains have limited supply and kept the market strong.
Veteran California vegetable salesman Mark McBride is pretty blunt about what he has witnessed over the last several weeks with the leafy green market. “If anybody tells you they’ve seen this before, they are lying,” said the Coastline Family Farms sales executive with close to five decades of experience. “I’ve never seen anything like this before not even close.”
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