- A drought and excessive heat in California has made for a bleak avocado season
- Prices on the fruit skyrocket as the Golden State is the biggest supplier to the US
- One supplier was selling cases of the crop $30 now a case goes for around $120
- The narrative isn’t totally bleak as prices will start to adjust after Labor Day
Millennials will have to shell out more for their avocado toast after extreme heat and a drought in California cuts the state’s crop in half from last year.
The crop has dwindled in the Golden State and costs are skyrocketing in the US as demands increase to import the green goods from Mexico and Peru.
The avocado narrative isn’t completely bleak for Millennials who yearn for their daily avocado du jour, they’ll just have to pay more for them.
Avocado tress became stressed after five years of drought and extreme heat last year hurt this year’s crop.
That feel when… your avocado toast price skyrockets
Millennials will have to pray for more rain in California next year to ward off a repeat of the great avocado shortage
Record rain and snowfall in the mountains this winter abruptly ended California’s five-year drought, but accumulative effects of years past had taken its toll on the current avocado crop.
The Orange Register reports the prices are pumped up after the California crop dwindled to over 50 per cent from 2017 to 2016. This year just 200million pounds were plucked from the state.
In 2016 it was double that at 400million pounds of the bumpy lumpy fruit coming out of California.
California produces about 90 per cent of the nation’s avocado crop.
The Register reports Melissa’s, a supplier to fine dining establishments in the region, is selling cases of avocados for around $120, that’s up from just $30.
Relief is on the horizon for what restaurateurs and millennials see as a currently rotten market, prices will start to drop after Labor Day once Mexican supplies stabilize and catch up with the US demand.