Secrets & Lies
Mango 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 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 ReadingThe Fruits of Crespo’s Labor
Direct trade tends be a quality-centric, mutually beneficial model where the farmer is the expert on production of a high-quality product, and the customer on product distribution to the consumer. The two parties exchange information on the challenges and opportunities, and they strategize to build long-term commerce relationships built on trust, transparency and respect.
Continue ReadingSouth American Predictions are In
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…
Continue Reading“La Ventosa”
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 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…
Continue ReadingI don’t like to be called “Honey”
…and neither does the Ataulfo Mango I can’t tell you how many times I have been called Lisa, Melissa, Alissa, and, even, Carissa when various adults have had to read my name, Nissa, aloud. The very existence of the name Nissa (pronounced Niss like kiss with the soft “a” pronounced like uh = Niss–uh) baffles…
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