Late summer and fall time fruits are found at your local grocery store and retailers about now, and if not now, fairly soon. And depending on what your taste is, you should have no problems finding your favorite as you shop or perhaps pick your own. USDA's latest production forecast for fall time fruits breaks down specific products. For Fleming Gibson of the National Agricultural Statistics service starts with apples. Speaker2: Our apple production this season is going to be down 2.2%, very similar to some of our prior years. Speaker1: The nation's largest apple producing state, Washington, along with Michigan. Each record year over year reductions of over £100 million produced, offsetting an increase in New York State apple production. Turning to cranberries production. Speaker2: We're up 1.6%. Massachusetts, the second largest producing state, is up 12% compared to the previous year. Speaker1: The rise in Bay State cranberry production offset a slight decline in what the nation's largest cranberry growing state, Wisconsin, harvested this year. When it comes to U.S. grape production in 2024, we. Speaker2: Are up 7.7% on production. We did add New York and Oregon back to the estimating program for grapes. That was one of our program changes to add them back in. Speaker1: And the nation's largest grape growing state. California reported more total grapes produced than the prior year, with year over year increase. Production noted for both Golden State Raisin and Table grapes, the latest look at domestic peach production by NASS was significant in that this is our. Speaker2: First like all peach forecast of the year, may we forecast just California only. So this is our first full Peach forecast of the year, up 22.2% this season. California, which is the largest producing state for peaches, is looking at the highest production since 2017. Pretty good year. They're expecting out in California. Speaker1: Also Georgia and South Carolina. Peach crop production significantly rebounded this year after freeze events in 2023 severely impacted the crops in those states. As for pear production.
