HMC News – September 2025
Grape harvest continues to ramp up this month. We are in the heart of Great Green green seedless and Krissy red seedless. Scarlet Royal volume is picking up this month and Allisons are right on the horizon.
The grapes are some of the best we’ve seen in terms of flavor and quality, making now the perfect time to promote. We have volume available for large grape ads, so please contact your HMC sales representative to get something on the books today.
Lunch Bunch®, the original portioned grape is available exclusively from HMC Farms®. In 1979, we discovered a need for portioned grapes in the Foodservice industry. Lunch Bunch was then created
and packed in California. We worked with the USDA to create an Institutional Grade Standard that allowed us to bring Lunch Bunch into the US from all growing regions of the world, making them available year ‘round. For the last 46 years we have worked tirelessly to understand the Foodservice Industry and provide products to serve their customers. Red seedless Lunch Bunch are available year ‘round and August – November, during our California growing region harvest, green seedless Lunch Bunch are also available.
We began installing our first permanent hail netting structure in one of our orchards this month. These nets will remain rolled up at the tops of the trees until next season. Once we enter our hail season in late winter/early spring the nets will be rolled down to protect juvenile fruit against potential hailstorms whenever they are in the forecast. These nets can be rolled down by a single person in a matter of seconds, as opposed to using an entire crew for a full day to cover each individual row.
Last month we experienced over an inch of rain from a storm that was predicted to be 0.25 inches total rainfall. Fortunately, our grapes were covered in preparation for storms. We have assessed our fields
and from what we can tell, everything that was covered stayed dry. The storm was followed by higher-than-average humidity which is very uncommon in our area. We will continue to monitor fields to see
if this has any effect on the fruit as well.
