Dear Readers, In the past two weeks, we have, literally, been been through the vineyards in South Africa to see the crop from nearby, so to say. It was disappointing to notice that the total tonnage of goldens was much
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Dear Readers, Although we expect that the South African raisin-intake, shall go on, at least, for another month, we can already state that the crop in South Africa is much bigger than expected and where the estimation was 50/60.000, we
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Dear Readers, In literally all markets, specially soft-commodity-markets, because the weather plays here a dominant role, it is a permanent look for the most accurate estimation to hopefully find out what the market is going to do in the next
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Dear Readers, A week ago the harvest-campaign in South Africa has really begun. Every day the farmers are bringing in more and more material and as it looks today one can speak about a very good crop, to put it
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Dear Readers, The more we enter in the phase of the delivering period of the new crop, the (nervous) activities in the South African raisin-market are growing rapidly. Due to the fact that the fresh grape market is traditonally decreasing
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Dear Readers, Most of the bins have been picked up by the majority of the farmers and the next point will be when they start to bring in the merchandise, Goldens as well as Thompsons, whereby Thompson shall be the bulk,
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December 5th 2014 Reason enough to inform you earlier than expected. The fact that RBA in California announced to pay a better price than last year, to the bulk of the growers (US 1775,- per ton), has given a new
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A market is not only formed by the ingredients of demand and supply, although that mostly comes in the first place. It should be a lot easier if it were only these components to predict how a market shall develop
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At the end of August we made clear in our bulletin that Californina as well as Turkey should have, at least, a fairly big-sized crop. Being the two biggest suppliers of raisins, worldwide, we may conclude that obviously one can
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At the end of August we made clear in our bulletin that Californina as well as Turkey should have, at least, a fairly big-sized crop. Being the two biggest suppliers of raisins, worldwide, we may conclude that obviously one can
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