OfflineAnticipated Produce Loads - please see key below for interpretation
Greetings friends!
Gosh where to even start. There is so much going on in the produce space it’s hard to know what to share. I could talk to you all day about this stuff. Dan and I’ve been in Eastern Oregon all week meeting with many of our apple, onion and potato donors. It’s been an illuminating and meaningful time of deep conversations – seasonal crop projections, staffing updates, operational cost woes and confirming their intentions for their donations programs. Meeting with them and learning is one of the best parts of my job even when their updates are upsetting and sometimes heartbreaking.
Now for the nuts and bolts – Why are there so few green veggies again this week? Great question. California’s Central Coast is experiencing an explosion of Diamondback aka cabbage moths once again. You might remember me mentioning this last winter as well when we had so much celery and so little else. This moth loves all things brassicas and gobbles up the leaves before the plants can mature. The brassica family includes crops like bok choy, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. These are crops we usually source this time of year to round out our offerings.
I don’t know when we will start seeing these varieties come back in a meaningful way but I’ll keep my eyes peeled. The good news is that our partners at FNW have sourced a lot of local cabbage and new crop white potatoes for us this week. Onions are soon to be coming online with volumes increasing weekly. The melon train is starting to slow down as we ease into fall so expect good volume for now but know the end is nearing.
Be well and bon appetit! Your friend, produce kim
Kim Langston - Food Resource Developer
Monday, 9/21 Watermelon, bulk – 57 bins – Statewide – Ready to distribute | Tuesday, 9/22 Cabbage, bulk – 60 bins – Statewide – Ready to distribute Potatoes, cased – 20 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Pears, bulk – 40 bins – Statewide – Repack required Zucchini/Cucumbers, bulk – up to 12 bins – Metro – Repack required USDA – Grapes, cased – 20 pallets – Statewide - Ready to distribute | Wednesday, 9/23 Potatoes, cased – 20 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Watermelon, bulk – 57 bins – Statewide – Ready to distribute USDA – Peaches, cased – 20 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute | Thursday, 9/24 Sweet Potatoes,, cased – 20 pallets – Statewide – Ready to Distribute Carrots, bagged – 18 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Apples, cased – 26 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Onions – Bagged/Bulk – Statewide – Repack required Zucchini/Cucumbers, bulk – up to 10 bins – Statewide – No repack required | Friday, 9/25 Cabbage, bulk – 60 bins – Statewide – Ready to distribute |
| Produce Key: Format = Product - Pack Type - Volume - Warehouse - Repack Requirement FTL = Full Truck Load Red = We are expecting these items, but the volumes are unconfirmed. Blue = Updated highlights/edits | ||||
Anticipated Loads - please see key below for interpretation
Received last week for FTB:
| Ordered last week for FTB:
| Ordered last week for Purchased Staples
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| Key: PS = Purchased Staples: product purchased with state funding and distributed free of charge. FTB = Food to Buy: product purchased by OFB usually by the truckload and sold to RFBs and agencies by the case at our cost. Statewide = load is divided between regional food banks - Metro and West will receive a portion of this load | ||
Please remember these are expected truckloads coming to the OFB warehouse this week. Reminder: It will take a few days for items to appear in inventory depending on when the loads are received into the warehouse. Food is first received into the Statewide warehouse and then must be transformed/moved to the Metro and West warehouses, including a delivery to West. These are estimates on what you can likely expect to see in the coming days/weeks, not when you will see them. Please reach out to the Metro Team (MWCS@oregonfoodbank.org) with questions, not the Operations Team. Thank you!
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