Pecan Market Update for Louisiana

BATON ROUGE - Oct 27/09 - SNS -- Pecan market conditions in the state of Louisiana are summarized in this report from the USDA.

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	      Federal-State Market News Service, USDA.

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LOUISIANA PECAN REPORT (via Thomasville, Georgia)


   Deliveries by growers have been very light. Rain and wet
conditions in the orchards have prevented growers from
entering the fields and harvesting. Rain is expected to
continue today and through the weekend. Accumulation buying
points reported only very light offerings of yard trees,
primarily that of Natives/Seedling and some Improved varieties
of Candy, Elliott, Mahan, Moore, Stuart and a few Desirables.
A wide range of quality of nuts are being offered for sale,
with many being turned away at the door for various reasons.
Those with a high moisture content are being spread out to dry
in order to salvage the nuts for future sales, while others are
too damaged to recover. Growers are hoping that a break in the
weather will come in time so that the remaining nuts still on
the trees will be able to be shaken and harvested.
  Demand was slow with buying interest primarily from the
giftpack sector looking for lots with fairly high quality and
appropriate unit count. Most of the nuts that were previously
harvested are being offered for retail sales instead of going
to the commercial shellers for sale, causing a gap in available
offerings.
Prices paid to growers (Thursday October 22nd through Tuesday
October 27th,2009) at buyers delivery point or f.o.b. the orchard
including direct sales to end users, cents per pound in-shell of
generally good quality in lots of 20,000 pounds or less unless
otherwise stated.

Elliott (deliveries very light) yard tree lots of generally good
quality 50, fair quality 35
Mahan (deliveries very light) yard tree lots of generally good
quality 45-50, fair quality 35
Natives (deliveries very light) yard tree lots of generally good
to fair quality 35-40,
Stuart (deliveries very light) yard tree lots of generally good
quality 50-70, fair quality 35
Success (deliveries insufficient to establish market)
























NEXT REPORT WILL BE ISSUED OCTOBER 29, 2009

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