Rain and Snow even! The Prices for this year are still not settled as there appears to be a developing shortage of 200 to 260 sized Manzanillas. Here's the latest:
"It seems this season has been poorer (quantity and size) than expected. The average of caliber is small (below 340) so sizes for domestic (Spanish) market and some foreign markets are very limited.
Bell Carter via Aceitunas Guadalquivir has moved "massive" quantity of manzanilla large size (320 and over) to cover deficit of California crop. They want to use manzanilla (though seems they got lots of sub variety of carrasqueña) instead of hojiblanca once they believe it will be closer to manzanillo variety... Myself not so sure about that.
The point is that such "early attack" by BC has not only removed substantial kilos from the market of large manzanilla but also forced prices up...
At this point its impossible to know prices for manzanilla 2010 as nobody is selling or closing a price. We think it will take at least thru mid Feb to have this matter cleared up."
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