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By Greg Northcutt
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editor
gregnorthcutt@msn.com
Top Story
Despite
a high quality crop, North Coast growers face a tough sell this
season
 This should go down as an excellent year
for North Coast wine grapes — at least for those picked before a big
storm hit the area in mid-October.
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TOP PERFORMING PRODUCTS FOR CALIFORNIA VINEYARDS
Features
Soft
market perplexes Central Coast grower
Despite 37 years experience growing and selling his own
wine grapes and managing vineyards, Richard Smith, Valley Farm
Management, Soledad, Calif., is having difficulty understanding why
California growers have an excess of grapes this fall.
Report
from Allied Grape Growers
Earlier this year, it looked as if production of
California wine grapes would slip a bit below average, but yields have
since picked up in most classes, resulting in a strong average to
above-average production.
Central
Valley growers benefit from lower yields, higher quality, good
demand
 Unusually high temperatures in July and
August has cut production of California table grapes — in fact, in
late September the California Table Grape Commission lowered its
forecast production for 2009 by 10 percent to 90 million boxes.
Field
price set for natural seedless raisins
 The Raisin Bargaining Association (RBA) has
announced the 2009 field price for natural seedless raisins will be
$1,323 per ton, payable when deliveries reach a total of 275,000 tons
and an industry-supported export program is funded.
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