Source: Tom Karst, THE PACKER, 5/19/22


South Carolina and North Carolina are a powerful one-two punch for U.S. watermelon availability. Totaling about 2,500 truckloads in 2021, South Carolina’s red-flesh seedless watermelon crop represents one of the state’s biggest fresh produce crops. For 2021, the USDA reported shipments of South Carolina red-flesh seedless watermelon beginning in May and ending in August.

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