Is there a problem with the apricot supply?

A couple of months ago, Del Monte canned apricots (“lite”) disappeared from the grocery shelves. There isn’t even a space for them on the shelf now, as there is when something is out of stock temporarily.

Then my favorite brand of apricot jam, Kozlowski, stopped production. I wrote to them and they confirmed it, but didn’t say why.

Has something happened to the orchards or the harvesting process or something? Why have apricot products disappeared? Is this just short-term or something worse? I know ripe apricots are fragile and don’t travel well, but in preserved form they’ve been pretty available until now.

If apricots have become a casualty of weather weirdness, that’s another sad loss.