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Foretelling the Mexican Season Wind Down
It’s complicated depending on who you ask….. Currently Crespo Organic is on the downside of peak of Kent season from Sinaloa. The Nayarit region has finished and all packhouses in that region have closed. Our orchards in Sinaloa, which dot the surrounding area of our hometown El Rosario and encircle our main packhouse, Empaque Don…
Continue ReadingSummertime Crop Update
Mexican organic mango season prepares for great peak. We will all be dripping in sweet mango mania. I do a fair amount of writing work in addition to all my other doings…. This article was originally written for and published (in edited form) by Organic Produce Network, to see the edited version on OPN’s…
Continue ReadingEmpaque Don Jorge (Agricola Crespo)
Boasting the most efficient and modern mango pack house around Disclaimer: This is a boastful and prideful post about a packing house that I truly believe in. I’m one of a few globally well-traveled industry folks with an extremely diverse make up of commodities, markets, cultures and systems. I have seen a lot of packing houses and…
Continue ReadingMango Truths (Forecasting Summer)
Sleuthing through the noise north and south of the border The truth is not always easy to find. It’s much like self-awareness. You have to have a great deal of will to find it. The current mango market is a strange one that has a lot of folks asking questions about what’s currently happening and…
Continue ReadingCopious Mexican Fruit (Coming Soon)
All Region Season Predictions are In It’s a funny (funny weird, not funny ha ha) time to report on copious amounts of mangoes. Supply on the round mangoes has taken an abrupt turn this week as Peru’s volume of Kents finally came to a halt and as Mexican Tommy Atkins are still just drizzling out…
Continue ReadingCarbon Sequestration in Mango Trees
Nature gives us a green deal in mangoes The business of growing food for the American and Canadian markets in Mexico can often seem, and often times is, a strain on the environment. Regardless of whether your climate change viewpoints fall right, left or center, we could all agree that the unpredictable nature of weather…
Continue ReadingThe Squeezed Squeeze Back
Round Mango Market Difficulties Ahead Weeks 8-12 are the problem. Last Friday there was an early morning surge of mango chatter amongst industry folks. A handful of the bigger conventional players released a series of statements —more like warnings, in the form of internal and external emails, the subject being massive shortages of round mangoes…
Continue ReadingCrespo Organic Sees All Yellow
Mexico revs up mango engines with Ataulfos to start the season Most packing sheds are currently opened, opening or will be opening in the next few weeks in the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. Ataulfos are on track to start first – some growers have started picking and others will start picking next week…
Continue ReadingMango Season Starts with Potential
A new, cleverly named, pack house springs up to help Update 2/25: We are a little behind schedule about a week and the packing house is now set to open around the 8th of March, get inspected start packing Crespo mangoes by the 15-20th! Check out the new updated photos of the packing shed at…
Continue ReadingHurricane Willa Floods Southern Sinaloa
Much needed water pours down on the mangoes despite the ensuing chaos The hurricane, which gained massive, unforeseen, rapid strength, morphing into a Category 5 storm, with wind gusts exceeding 160 mph, was projected to be one of the most powerful storms to hit the Mexican Pacific coast. Eventually, just before making landfall, the…
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