Dear Readers, Worldwide and traditionally, the months of October and November, in preparation for the festivity-month of December, are quite active as far as dried fruit- and nutmarkets are concerned. However and so far, we are to understand that, as
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The United States Department of Agriculture has announced figures about the 2015/2016 raisin-crop. . According to their latest information the world will have, for the season 2015/2016, a smaller raisin-crop of about 6 percent viz. 1.13/1.14 mln tons available. The
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The buying-activities for new crop raisins from Turkey, California and even for South African raisins have begon already, which is not abnormal in the months of September and October, in direct view of the winter-season. For Turkey and California it
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Living with the disappointing news about theTurkish crop, it is good to hear that there is also positive news which, this time, came from California . According to the latest information the crop should be 13 percent better than last
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Dear readers, The moment of the expected, important news about the raisin-crops from Turkey and California is coming closer............ . First we have to see whether the negative crop-news, from Turkey, as it came to us during March and April,
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Dear Readers, The expression is: no news, good news. In other words: as long as we do not hear any more negative news about drought, frost, hail or whatever adverse type of weather, things might turn out, hopefully, not too
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Dear Readers The summer-period in Europe has started meanwhile and purchasers, will no longer think, in the first place, of covering their needs, if any, but will, one by one, going direction beach or the mountains.. Sun-tanned (hopefully) they
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Since everybody is now obviously aware of the facts about this years' upcoming smaller Turkey's raisin-crop and being no need anylonger to base ourselves on question-marks/suggestions, crystalballs and the lot, we can clearly state that the consequence shall be
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Dear Readers, Forst is something we can better do without. A lot of things mankind can have under controll, as far as agriculture is concerned but frost is, for sure, a factor which is, on a large scale, impossible to
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Dear Readers, Although every day farmers still bring in a good portion of raisins, one can say that finally this years' crop in South Africa comes to an end. Despite the fact that we have no official figures available, as
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