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Mango 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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Ecuadorian Small Fruit Abundance and Limited Peruvian Volumes This article originally published -edited- for Organic Produce Network click here for the published version Below is the unedited version, written by Nissa Pierson If the Mexican organic mango season can give us insight into the approaching Ecuadorian and Peruvian seasons, it’s that increasingly unpredictable weather patterns…
Continue ReadingOverwhelming Demand Dominates Irregular Mexican Organic Mango Season
Article Originally Written for and Published by Organic Produce Network OrganicProduceNetwork.com Read the published article on OPN Season predictions have become challenging as “typical” Mexican mango seasons become tenuous. Erratic weather is the new norm and difficult to gauge weather patterns significantly impede forecasting ability. Making this particular season even more challenging to foretell is…
Continue ReadingMarket Truths: Don’t (Always) Believe the Hype
Tricky transitioning of regions in Mexican mango season- south to north The Mexican mango season lasts for about nine months and is made up of 7 different regions, eight if you separate Los Mochis, as most do. Los Mochis is USDA sanctioned “fruit fly free zone” and therefore the hot water baths (hydro-thermic…
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Frente Frío del Este de Estados Unidos Genera Viento en los Huertos de Mango Oaxaqueño Mientras que la mayor parte de la industria ha sido consumida por las frías temperaturas de México (debidas al frente frío de la temporada), que a menudo cubren a México en esta época del año viajando desde el norte (llamada…
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How an Eastern US Cold Front Spawns Wind in Oaxacan Mango Orchards While most of the industry has been consumed by Mexico’s cold temperatures from the seasonal, southern traveling cold front, often blanketing Mexico this time of year, (nicknamed norte by southern Mexicans), we are more concerned with the wind phenomenon currently happening outside our…
Continue ReadingOrganic Ataulfos Prepare for Picking!
2018 Promises To Be a Sweet & Fruitful Season Our last winter crop update, published mid-November, gave us an overall positive outlook on the upcoming Mexican mango season. Ample rains had arrived in perfectly timed step and quantity, and the various stages of production from our southern regions of Oaxaca and Chiapas had progressed nicely.…
Continue ReadingWinter Crop Update – Southern Mexico
Crespo organic mangoes thrive with perfectly timed, ample pre- season rains Predictions for 2018 are popping up everywhere this time of year and we are jumping on that trend by forecasting healthy production for the southern Mexican producing regions of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Continue ReadingWhat The Blush?
Secret blush notes of the Sinaloa Keitt Mango Mangoes continue to surprise and delight me. They are a lot like people. Whenever I think I know something about them, they prove me wrong. Things that grow are complex by nature, and taking a cookie cutter approach to defining them always fails. As I proceed…
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