Dear Readers, Each and every day the raisin-market is getting clearer and clearer. One thing is sure: there will certainly be enough raisins around, this season. Either top-quality or medium quality. Exact figures cannot be given as yet but Turkey
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Time is coming closer to find out exactly what kind of raisin-market we will see in autumn when purchasers will enter the market for the traditional season-buying. According to the news we had over the past months/weeks, both Turkey and
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Dear Reader, During the last days of April, the news from California broke through that the young buds on the raisin-vines were starting to be active already and as a logic result, the blooming was on the point of starting,
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Dear Readers, After some very rainy days in the first week of April, the weather improved in the second week, with quite some sunshine and temperatures between 30 and 36 degrees Celsius, so that farmers were in a position to
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Dear Readers, One thing is sure; the South African raisin crop is indeed importantly smaller than last year. As was expected already by the majority of the South African raisin-farmers, the overall crop in South Africa is disappointing, to say
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Dear Readers, Maybe you remember what we have said in our last report:....... as long as a crop is not under the roof anything can happen....... Now we know how true such expression can be. Having been through the fields
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Dear Readers: Be aware of the following: at harvesting-time things can change by the day. As long as the berries are hanging on the vines, the impact of the weather (provided it is not too extreme both ways) is no
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Dear Readers, Being now on the spot, between the farmers in South Africa, we notice, as we reported earlier already, that there is a voluminous discrepancy in price between the old- and the new crop, specially as far as the
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Dear Readers, As we indicated in our last bulletin, the first new crop raisins will be delivered during the last week of January. In the very beginning the farmers come in with small quantities (5 to 10 tons) but traditionally
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The New Year has started. We wish all our Readers a very Healthy and Happy New Year with enough tasteful raisins at acceptable prices. Because the situations in California and Turkey are more than well known meanwhile, everybody's eyes are
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