California Winegrape Crush Down from 2014

Taylor HillmanGeneral, Wine

…the total grape crush in 2015, 11.3 percent, or 434,612 tons, were crushed for grape juice concentrate. Even amidst the shorter crop, the weighted average purchase price of California winegrapes…

Analysts Outline Changing Situation in Wine Business

Taylor HillmanWine

…balance in the third and fourth quarters of the year. Fredricks also described the difference in bulk wine prices in different growing regions. The bulk price for cabernet sauvignon, for…

Wetter Winter Helps Ranchers Offset Lower Prices

Taylor HillmanCattle

…as “an absolute rollercoaster,” with prices soaring in 2014 into early 2015, then crashing last fall. But he said the market appears to be holding steady and prices may have…

Super Bowl Chicken Wings

Taylor HillmanFeatures, This Land of Ours

…the Super Bowl, 75 percent will come from food service outlets and 25 percent from retail grocery stores. The average wholesale price of whole wings is currently about 1-78 per…

Food Prices pt. 2

Taylor HillmanFeatures, This Land of Ours

Which items we’ll be paying more and less for in 2016. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. This Land of Ours – Food prices pt. 2 Will prices…

Food Prices 2016

Taylor HillmanFeatures, This Land of Ours

price Economist Ann Marie Kuhns predicted that grocery store food prices in 2015 would go up by 2 – 3 percent. However, prices only went about about 1-point-two percent –…

Cattle Price Declines Expected This Year

Taylor HillmanCattle

…the forecasts. Further Cattle Price Declines Expected This Year “Year-over-year we expect me in production to increase and those cattle prices to soften.” Agriculture Department outlook board chairman Seth Meyer…