Raisin News

An outright fruit snack smackdown between raisins and Craisins has erupted, with millions of dollars at stake for California's Central Valley raisin industry and its cranberry counterpart, based mainly in the East and Midwest.

JOHN SLADEWSKI/The Standard-Times It's raisins on the West Coast and Craisins on the East Coast in an all-out war for wrinkly, dried-fruit snack supremacy An outright fruit snack smack-down between raisins and Craisins has erupted, with millions of dollars at stake for California's Central Valley raisin industry and its cranberry counterpart, based ... (more)

Raisin shipments for the first six months of the year are 3% higher than the same period last year and raisin acreage is not expected to grow despite steady demand by consumers and wineries.

Caption: Sylvia M'Lafi Thompson and Mark Christopher Lawrence in A Raisin in the Sun.