date:Jun 22, 2016
Ideal growing conditions have spurred on good production of strawberries in Salinas and Santa Maria. With fairly light demand, prices for fresh strawberries have been soft, possibly encouraging growers to divert more production to processing.
The weather hasn't been too warm yet, so growing conditions are perfect and the plants are just loaded with berries, said Steve Johnston with GW Palmer. Salinas is at its peak right now, so you can have a million flats a day coming from there.
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