# Bountiful Market Updated: May 2026 Position Report

By [Megan Nunes](https://blog.bountiful.ag/author/megan-nunes) ·  
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[Bountiful Market](https://app.bountiful.ag/market) is updated with new data from the [May 2026 Almond Board of California position report.](https://www.almonds.org/sites/default/files/2026-06/2026.05_PosRpt_1456.pdf)

- Monthly Shipments
- Carry-out trends
- Crop Receipts by Variety
- Total Marketable Supply, Shipments vs Commitments

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### 📈 Almond Crop Receipts down over 2024

May's position report marks the tenth month of the 2025/2026 marketing year.

Crop receipts to date: 2,690,836,961 lbs, down -0.77% over last year.

Monthly new crop receipts:

The monthly new crop receipts per ABC Form 1 reporting

- **May: 2,525,226** lbs, down -35.22% over April
- **April: 3,897,923** lbs

### 📊 TMS, Shipments & Commitments

May's new crop receipts bring the **2025** Total Marketable Supply to 3,120,826,522 lbs, down -1.24% over last year.

2025/2026 % TMS shipped to date: 70.91%, down -0.69% over last year

2025/2026 % Sold to date: 84.95%, up +0.63% over last year

### 🚢 2025 Shipments

May's total shipments: 217,359,027 lbs  
- Up +2.64% YoY over May 2025 shipments  
- Down -1.15% MoM over April shipments: 219,895,675 lbs

### 🔮 Future Demand

Total new sales for May: 138,746,656 lbs  
- Up +55.90% YoY over May 2025 new sales of 88,994,700 lbs.  
- Down -13.66% MoM over April new sales

### **📊 Bountiful's 2025 forecasts**

Following the August position report, we publicly share all forecasts released on the [Bountiful](https://app.bountiful.ag/login?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PRRz3tq1KjMn_JRldh4XFE0mAwGkAQlsf5S2aTEmLtJPnTZ1PfEzShRImde2FkCrmKE5f) [platform](https://app.bountiful.ag/login?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PRRz3tq1KjMn_JRldh4XFE0mAwGkAQlsf5S2aTEmLtJPnTZ1PfEzShRImde2FkCrmKE5f) to our Premium:  Farm and Industry Subscribers throughout the 2025 crop year.

### 📈 Crop Receipt Projections

Following the December position report, we begin running a forward projection on ABC Form 1 crop receipts every month to get an idea of the total size of the crop.

The methodology we use for our crop receipt projections differs from our [in-season machine learning forecasts](https://medium.com/@BountifulAg/forget-everything-you-know-about-forecasting-81b28ca05d2d?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PRRz3tq1KjMn_JRldh4XFE0mAwGkAQlsf5S2aTEmLtJPnTZ1PfEzShRImde2FkCrmKE5f). Our 2025 in-season forecasts are complete and have not been updated since we released a final forecast in July.
