I'm still stuck on our Monday activities. Our schedules are very heavy and I am having a hard time keepin the blog current. We left the facilities and toured the plantings. Overall frost damage for the Chileans was pretty limited to the lower valleys. All the hillsides were in FULL BLOOM and looking good. Chileans plant high density style (400-500 a acre) which is triple the California standard. The two biggest thoughts to enter my little mind when traveling around the hills were, when was the bus going to take all of us to our deaths and second, can't they ever stop planting!
Next years crop appears to be stronger than anticipated-again with all the new plantings making up for the frost damage shortage. This current season they told us to expect around another million cartons than expected and a few exporters may go to February. DAMMIT!
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