(10-23-2020, 06:03 PM)Jags Wrote:

(10-23-2020, 02:35 AM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: Thank you. I knew the 3 week smoke delay would cause issues that I couldn't necessarily control so I try not to sweat it too much. It's all relative anyway. It's supposed to be a lighter year for grapes here to start with, so if we come in nationally under 220,000 tons, prices will probably rise a bit. 

I just won't know until maybe 2022 lol.

Damn, I haven’t fully kept up with this thread.   Didn’t know it would take that long to find out.  Hopefully no losses on your part.  Best of luck.  

Pardon my ignorance, but if prices rise I assume you mean for the buyers and so on and so forth for the consumer?   Trickling down.  Which in turn would be good for you as well?

Yeah the price the processors pay the growers. Not sure what it necessarily means on the consumer side. 

We've had an oversupply of raisins for quite a long time but we were projected to be right on balance before this harvest started, so pricing very well could change with the smoke situation. To give you an idea it's probably ranged from $1200-$2100 per ton over the last 10 years

On the individual level, the USDA grades your product. You have pass and fail and within pass you have a few levels of passing based on fruit maturity and the level of dryness, that will earn some pricing bonuses if you attain them. These bonuses are maybe $80 and $50 per ton

The former is way above my pay grade and the latter is near and dear to my heart but a much smaller component (as long as you pass) haha.

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