Walnut Harvest Has Begun With Enough Rain and Healthy Trees

Walnut harvest on early varieties has begun on the 2023 crop. Weather has been perfect this year for walnuts, with an abundance of water and healthy trees, quality is expected to be excellent. One supplier informed Summit that they expect the quality to be the best...

USDA: Walnut Production Forecast Up

The 2023 Crop USDA Objective Estimate for Walnut production was released today at 790,00 tons, up 5%  from 2022 crop production of 752,000 tons. The forecast is based on 385,000 bearing acres, down 4% from 2022’s estimated bearing acreage of 400,000. The 2023 Walnut...

Walnut Market Expects Larger Crop This Year

The July 2023 Walnut shipments were +44,357 tons in 2023 versus 30,058 tons in July 2022 on an in-shell equivalent, for an increase of 32.3%. Walnut suppliers should be happy with July shipments, even though prices for July (and the entire 2022 crop) are at a loss for...

Walnut Industry Expects Larger Crop

The walnut industry has to extend a big thanks to the USA market. USA shipments carried June shipments, and that was mainly due to the shipping of USDA purchases made a couple of months ago. Export markets were down fairly big, except for Japan and Korea kernel...