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Al Bernardi, who helped established a Nogales, Ariz., brokerage as the area became a key link to imported produce, has died.

A panel of produce industry leaders in Nogales, Ariz., spoke in favor of free trade and against the threatened Trump administration imposition of tariffs on Mexican goods.

The certainty of stable trade relations between the U.S. and Mexico seemed to be evaporating in early June.

For foodservice operators, a new research report shows that Chilean lemons are in the right place at the right time.

As the Mexican grape season begins, importers will be seeing an expected 22-million carton crop this season, a one-third increase from last season.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Pharr, Texas, seized more than $6 million worth of methamphetamine concealed in a shipment of fresh honeydew melons.

The latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that the import share of the U.S. fresh vegetable supply continues to rise.

The Packer’s Tom Karst visited the morning of April 12 with Dante Galeazzi, president and CEO of the Texas International Produce Association, about the upcoming Viva Fresh show in San Antonio and border issues.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, former governor of Georgia, said the conclusions in a study from the University of Georgia — his alma mater — about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement are “flat wrong.”

Mexican tomato growers proposed a new tomato suspension agreement to the Commerce Department on May 22, but Florida tomato growers gave it an icy reception.