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At 8 a.m. Central time on Tuesday, August 29, Mexican truck drivers plan to begin a massive two-day strike with protests.

Here’s another name you can add for this hated disease: California calls it huanglongbing (HLB), Florida calls it citrus greening disease, and in the Mexican state of Veracruz—the nation’s main citrus producer—it is called the yellow dragon.

The Mexican peso has soared in value relative to the U.S. dollar over the past year—24 percent. On July 14, the exchange rate was 16.73 pesos to the dollar.

Mexico participates with almost half of the world's avocado exports, reaching a record of 3.495 million dollars in 2022, but that success is tasted proportionally more and more in the U.S. and less in the rest of the world, according to El Economista.

I’m always fascinated when I come across one news story that dovetails with another from a different source.

After a delayed start to the Mexican table grape season, producers are bouncing back with normal production moving into the month of June.

Berries were Mexico’s biggest agroexport in the first two months of 2023, beating out not only avocados, but beer and tequila.

Fresh produce imports from Mexico are expected to reach over $53 billion in economic value by 2023, according to a recent report from the Center for North American Studies (CNAS) at Texas A&M University.

Mexican table grape growers expect the 2023 crop to be slightly larger than last season.

In 2022, Mexican agricultural exports registered a new record with a value of $50.1 billion compared to the $44.7 billion in 2021, reflecting an increase of 12.2 percent, according to the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER).