The USDA NASS August report is out, and Morning Star colleague Aaron Giampietro is here to discuss what the newly reported intentions mean for the California processing tomato industry.
An order for an emergency water curtailment for water users in the Sacramento-San Joaquin (Delta) Watershed was unanimously voted on Tuesday, August 3rd, by the State Water Resources Control Board. Colleague Ron Dalforno is here to provide a response.
In early 2020 Harrison McKenny joined the Morning Star family to assist with market, business, and industry analysis. He’s a highly focused worker, but once you get him talking, you begin to experience the interesting depths of his personality.
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency for most counties in the state in early July, responding to the state’s rising temperatures. According to the California Farm Water Coalition, nearly 2 million acres of irrigated farmland in California has seen their water allocation cut significantly. Millions more acres have had their water restricted by at least 25%.
In the processing tomato world, our calendar runs differently from the January – December Gregorian calendar the world has come to know. When most are celebrating the New Year, we are already halfway through ours. You could say a complete cycle lasts 15 months.
As we head into August, processing tomato harvesting in California is well underway. Approximately 2.3 million tons have been harvested to date, closely resembling 2020’s harvesting curve.
As with the start of every new season, weather tends to impact initial harvests differently around the globe. Drought may be one region’s challenge while rain or hail may be another’s – something the major processing countries are wrestling with daily. As California fights to withstand the perils of drought, we see similar regions globally share that challenge.
Finish describes the texture of tomato paste. The texture refers to the amount of peel, seed, or core material (insoluble solids) remaining in the juice before it is concentrated. Finish is a key factor for both the yield and texture of your final product.
The season has started here at Liberty Packing and Morning Star colleague Aaron Giampietro is back with an update on how production is moving along this early in the season.
Morning Star colleague Aaron Giampietro is back to discuss today’s USDA NASS California Tomato Acreage and Production Report, which we believe to be reasonable and sound compared to January’s report.
One of the many benefits of purchasing tomato products from Morning Star is the ability to choose how your product comes. We offer 3 main types of packaging: wood bins, plastic bins, and 55-gallon drums. The most common option that our customers choose is the wood bin. Wood bins have many benefits, which include multi-year reusability, fill capacity, efficiency in standard plywood sheet sizing, ease of manufacturing, recyclability, waste-to-energy power generation, and the often overlooked ability to turn the wood bin into a clean plastic bin by removing the Bin-Top and draping the interior blue Poly Bin-liner down the outside sidewalls of the filled wood box.
Hans started his career with Morning Star back in 1990, when the first Morning Star factory was preparing to break ground. What started with a 5-hour interview turned into a lifelong career filled with trials, tribulations, a little mischief, great success, joy, laughter and long-lasting friendships that can be better classified as family.
Over the past 12 to 18 months the US has experienced record-setting price increases in packaging materials such as plywood and lumber. Regardless of the reasons, they all play out in basic supply-and-demand rules for an open economy. Morning Star colleague Aaron Giampietro is back to discuss these extreme price increases and what that means for the processed tomato industry.
