Vegetables and Melons Outlook: August 2011
by Gary Lucier and
Lewrene GlaserOutlook No. (VGS-346) 42 pp, August 2011
The farm value of all mushroom (Agaricus and others) sales during the 2010/11 crop year (July-June) reached a new high of $1 billion, up 8 percent from a year earlier. Partly reflecting modest gains in the economy, mushroom sales volume rose 9 percent to 862 million pounds, the second highest level on record. In line with higher output, per capita disappearance (use) of all mushrooms grew 8 percent to 3.82 pounds in 2010/11.
Keywords: potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, broccoli, dry beans, pinto, dry peas, lentils, chickpeas, melons, mushrooms, acres, production, forecast, supply, demand, prices, retail, farm, fresh, processing, canned, frozen, wholesale, PPI, CPI, trade, exports, imports, data, summer, weather, market analysis
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