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Tim Hearden California, Sonora racing to get product on store shelves for Memorial Day.
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California grows 99% of America’s table grapes some 80 different varieties coming from Coachella and San Joaquin Valleys and available in U.S. stores from May through January. And the race with Mexican grape growers is on as both entities struggle to get product on store shelves to fill a traditional Memorial Day shopping surge.
The Sonora Grape Growers Association is projecting a minimum of 21.5 million 18-pound cartons to be shipped from the Nogales Port of Entry between early May and mid-July.
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April 1, 2021
The bulk of Mexico’s table grape deal is to run from the first week of May until mid-July, according to the Sonora Grape Growers Association (AALPUM). The group announced its 2021 grape estimate in a Zoom meeting late on March 30.
Marcos Camou, AALPUM association president, Juan Laborin, AALPUM general manager, and John Pandol, FPAA grape division chairman, presented the crop estimate.
AALPUM predicted Sonora will have promotable volumes of early green grapes by May 24-30, which is week 21. Early green promotable volumes will remain in the market until week 24, which is June 24-20.
AALPUM’s listed promotion dates take into account shipping from Nogales, not growing districts.