California cling peach growers are expected to produce 242,074 tons of peaches for canned and frozen fruit markets this year, up 10% from 2023, according to a June preseason estimate by the California League of Food Processors. The 2024 contract price to growers from processors is $635 per ton, the same price as last year, according to the California Canning Peach Association.

“We had favorable growing conditions up until the heat waves,” said Rich Hudgins, the association’s president and CEO.

With only 15% of the state’s cling peach crop harvested, he said it is too early to know whether growers will produce the estimated tonnage announced in June. If growers hit the estimate, Hudgins said, “We would have our best yield since 2016 of 17.8 tons per acre.”02

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Fuente: Turlock Journal