Carrot suppliers have seen a significant drop in available produce in recent months, as poor weather and warm temperatures in carrot-producing areas of California resulted in lighter-than-usual crops. But relief could be on the horizon, and things could get back to normal within the month.“From what I’m being told, it is easing up,” Rodney Scaman of Brookfield Organic Produce in Chicago, IL says, “and supply will get better in another two weeks.”
Specializing in organic produce, Scaman has seen prices go up in the past few weeks. Along with flooding, cool temperatures contributed to a poor season. With holiday demand high, the pressure on the industry intensified the shortage.
As Fresh Plaza previously reported, prices were up over 20%. Although he’s seen indication that prices could soon subside, right now, Brookfield and other suppliers are in a holding pattern.
“Everybody is concerned about price,” he says. “We’re all just waiting.”
For more information:
Rodney Scaman
Brookfield Organic Produce
+1 708 485 7200