date:Sep 26, 2022
California and Arizona are underway with the current crop of dates. Neil Merritt, Director of Global Sales at Bard Valley Date Growers (BVDG) says it began harvest the week of September 5th. It was a little bit later than normal but well finish in four to six weeks. Mother Nature determines that we pick the fruit within that time, he says.
This years crop though has been influenced by some adverse weather conditions in the Yuma, Arizona-Coachella, California regions where there have been some m