Planting of eggplant is expected to start within the next five to seven days. Scattered rains helped ease the dry soil conditions with the laying of plastic for fall crop planting increasing. Pepper planting is steady. Tomato transplanting is slow as the season gets underway. Growers are starting to plant eggplant.
Okra harvesting continues with good quality available.
Growers are expected to begin transplanting of U-Pic tomato fields within the next five to seven days. Planting of fields for out of state shipments is expected to start around the first of September. Snap bean planting is expected to begin about mid- September. Florida Agricultural Statistics Service has conducted surveys for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services since 1987 to measure the production and sales of all aquacultural commodities. The results of the latest survey are summarized below.