Sun World International LLC has added a stone fruit marketer and two importers to its panel of North American licensees. These include stone fruit marketer Trinity Fruit and licensed importers Capespan North America and Jac. Vandenberg. The appointments bring the company’s panel of licensed importers to 13 companies; Trinity joins four other California grower-marketers in producing and distributing Sun World stone fruit varieties, further expanding the supply and distribution of Sun World’s proprietary grape and stone fruit varieties.
Smaller sizing on peaches and nectarines in North America
Supplies of stone fruit in North America are good and increasingly building.
On the West Coast, coming off the long weekend, production will build on California peaches and nectarines plums will soon start as well. As the season builds, Larry Davidson of North American Produce Buyers based in Toronto, Canada notes that the sizing is off this year. “It’s probably a combination of varying temperatures and the heavier load being left on the trees in some cases,” says Davidson. “With the labor and the water issues, I don’t think they had the ability to thin the trees the way they wanted to.” That said, he does add that the fruit is eating well given the high temperatures in the growing season brought out good sugars.