Commodities report Asparagus harvest has been steady. One processor has closed down for the season, but the rest are still receiving product. Spear production for processing has been slowed by the wet weather because of occasional problems with sand in the final product. Purple spot has been an on going problem this spring. Fortunately, we are still able to divert problem harvests with high levels of purple spot to the processing market where it does not show up in the finished product.
Cool weather seems to have controlled common asparagus beetle so far.
Most of our carrot crop seems to be doing well, except for a couple of varieties where replanting is already going forward. John Bakker of the Crop Management Association reported finding aster leafhoppers on field margins earlier this week. Growers have begun killing barley cover crops. Some early plantings of snap beans did go in ahead of last week s big rains. The current thought is that those will have to be replanted.