PRODUCT AVAILABILITY

Fruits

• Avocados: steady market, strong supply, excellent quality (48ct peak)

• Pineapples (escalated): tight supply, limited key sizes, contracts prioritized

• Grapes: green tightening with higher prices; red stable with good supply

• Bananas: stable supply, strong demand, very good quality

• Apples: tightening supply, small sizes limited, prices slightly higher

• Pears: market firming; Bartlett ending; other varieties adequate to strong

• Blueberries (escalated): shortages, improvement expected late April

• Raspberries (escalated): limited supply, high demand, some quality issues

• Strawberries: weather impacting yields; Florida ending; pressure on California

California Citrus

• Lemons: supply shifting regions; small sizes tight; prices rising

• Imports/Specialties (escalated): large fruit dominant; small sizes limited; flexibility needed

• Limes (escalated): very tight supply; mostly small fruit; high prices

Stonefruit

• Nectarines finished; peaches nearly done; plums continue into April
• Kiwi steady on imports; Chile starting soon; domestic finished

California Lettuce

• Iceberg: higher prices due to lower yields; fair to good quality

• Leaf lettuce: butter up; green/red steady; good quality

• Romaine: active market; slightly tightening supply short term

• Romaine hearts & leaf: strong supply, good quality, widely available

Eastern & Western Vegetables

• Bell peppers (escalated): tight supply, strong demand, mixed quality in West

• Eggplant (escalated): tight East; steady to lower West

• Cucumbers (escalated): stable supply and quality; flat market

• Squash (escalated): transition phase; supply improving soon

• English cucumbers: tight supply; demand exceeds supply but improving

• Green beans (escalated): East steady; West limited but improving

Melons

• Cantaloupe: available supply; prices rising with demand

• Honeydew (escalated): supply challenges; Mexico supplementing

• Watermelon (escalated): high prices; strong demand; Mexico leading supply

Mixed Vegetables

• Artichokes (escalated): limited supply, good quality

• Asparagus (escalated): low supply, high prices; relief soon

• Broccoli: tight supply, improving quality, higher prices

• Broccolini (watchlist): very tight supply, fair quality

• Brussels sprouts: tight supply, strong demand, higher prices

• Carrots (escalated): tight supply, especially jumbo

• Cauliflower: tight supply, rising prices

• Celery: tight supply, higher prices

• Cilantro (escalated): very tight, high demand

• Corn (escalated): very tight; new crop soon

• Fennel (extreme): severe shortage, high prices

• Garlic/Ginger: stable supply and market

• Cabbage: green steady; red higher; good quality

• Green onions (watchlist): tight supply, high market

• Kale: strong supply and quality

• Mushrooms: excellent supply

• Napa/Parsley (escalated): improving supply and quality

• Rapini: light supply, strong market

• Red cabbage (watchlist): limited supply

• Peas (watchlist): steady supply, lower market

• Spinach/Spring mix (watchlist): tightening supply; some quality issues

Onions

• Idaho supply declining; Washington continues through May

• Texas recovering from rain; markets strengthening; good quality

Potatoes

• Russets: good supply, steady market, increasing shrink

• Red/White/Yukon: good supply, steady market; new Florida crop available

• Sweet: good supply in NC; strong demand due to shortages elsewhere

Tomatoes

• Round (escalated): prices rising due to tight supply

• Roma: mostly steady but trending higher

• Grape/cherry: steady at elevated prices

• Beefsteak: very limited supply; demand exceeds supply; size flexibility needed