HAMMONTON, NJ — With “very consistent” weather during the winter and spring months, Atlantic Blueberry Co. is looking for the 2013 New Jersey blueberry season to start pretty much on time with greater volume than last year.

Stemilt Growers LLC, headquartered in Wenatchee, WA, is lighting up the blogosphere with information that will help consumers sink their teeth into the finest fruit available from the Pacific Northwest.

“We started a real blog two months ago,” Director of Marketing Roger Pepperl told The Produce News on May 29.

After seven years as sales manager for Atlanta-based distributor General Produce Inc., Andrew Scott is leaving, effective June 12, to explore other opportunities in the produce industry.

Scott will continue in his role as president of the Southeast Produce Council, an organization he has served in a leadership capacity since 2004.

There is often a bit of overlap between the end of the spring grape deals out of Sonora, Mexico, and Southern California's Coachella Valley and the start of the summer grape harvest in Central California's San Joaquin Valley. Sometimes the overlap is slight; sometimes there is virtually none at all, or even a gap.

Stemilt Growers, one of Washington state's larger apricot grower-shippers, is set to begin harvest of its 2013 crop June 24.

Fresh-market bulb onions are produced throughout California, with the main production areas being the low desert, the San Joaquin Valley and the southern and central coast. Planting takes place from September through May, and harvesting “begins in April or May and is usually completed in September,” according to “Fresh-Market Bulb Onion Production in California,” a publication on the subject published by the University of California Research & Information Center