# Bountiful Market Updated: October 2023 Position Report

By [Megan Nunes](https://blog.bountiful.ag/author/megan-nunes) · 1 minute read

[Bountiful Market](https://app.bountiful.ag/market?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PRRz3tq1KjMn_JRldh4XFE0mAwGkAQlsf5S2aTEmLtJPnTZ1PfEzShRImde2FkCrmKE5f) is updated with new data from the [October 2023 Almond Board of California position report.](https://www.almonds.com/sites/default/files/2023-11/2023.11_PosRpt_72841.pdf?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ba5YvUgMrlgx1dfS9eAU4lIEEEqYda__kWaBSafWb_xMplGYXb3pX_lD49rfFU0wGKXYO)

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

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### 📈 Almond Crop Receipts down over 2022

October's position report marks the third month of the 2023/2024 marketing year. Crop receipts to date: 1,334,260,550 lbs down -19.47% over last year.

Monthly new crop receipts:

The monthly new crop received per ABC form 1 reporting

- **October: 708,863,861 lbs** up +27.66% over September
- **September: 555,265,812 lbs**

### 📊 TMS, Shipments & Commitments

October's new crop receipts bring the 2023 Total Marketable Supply to  2,107,867,676 lbs, down -14.34% over last year.

2023/2024 % TMS shipped to date: 32.12% up +1.71% over last month up +6.47% over last year

2023/2024 % Sold to date: 64.26% down -13.85% over last month and up +10.37% over last year

### 🚢 2023 Shipments

October's total shipments: 247,395,472 lbs up +13.66% over last month and up +15.28% over last year.

2023/2024 total shipments to date:  677,074,435 lbs up +7.25% over last year

### 🔮 Future Demand

Total new sales for October: 250,746,958 lbs down -7.09% over last month and up +2.99% over last year.

### **📊 Bountiful's 2023 forecasts**

Following the August position report, we publicly share all forecasts released on the [Bountiful 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 2023 crop year.

### 📈 Crop Receipt Projections

Following the December position report we run 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 2023 in-season forecasts are complete and have not been updated since we released a final forecast in July.