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Fresh Farms offers cucumbers, soft squash and cantaloupes. Fresh Farms is adding new items every week.

The Oppenheimer Group expects a great season this year for its Mexican winter pepper program, which already has begun out of Jalisco, said Aaron Quon, executive category director of greenhouse.

Onion acreage is down in Texas, and the mid-February freeze will take another bite out of the crop.

Along with the flashing yellow caution light of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 also is bringing green lights for Mexican produce moving through Nogales, Ariz., distributors report.

The U.S.-Mexican border is a living organism and that keeps life interesting for West Mexico distributors.

The Oppenheimer Group offers retailers a well-rounded organic program in the Divemex brand, with both conventional and organic crops Fair Trade Certified.

Rio Rico, Ariz.-based Ciruli Bros. is shipping bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, some hot pepper varieties and tomatoes from the West Mexico growing region, said Chris Ciruli, chief operating officer.

For 2021, MAS Melons & Grapes, Rio Rico, Ariz., will continue with core items that include several varieties of table grapes, honeydew melons, seedless watermelons and mini watermelons, said Miguel Suarez, president.

The Chilean Citrus Committee of ASOEX estimates a 6% increase in citrus exports, encompassing navels, lemons, and easy peelers (clementines and mandarins).

The Packer is seeking input for its Ontario Greenhouse Marketing Section, which will publish Feb. 22.