Avocados from Mexico are now the primary year-round source for Henry Avocado’s established customer base in Texas and its expanding markets in the Midwest and the East. A year-round distributor based in Escondido, CA, with the majority of its customers in the West, Henry markets throughout the country from San Antonio and five other centers.

Ross Wileman

In anticipation of an increased volume of Mexican-grown Hass avocados in the U.S.

Steve Taft

Eco Farms Avocados Inc.

Chris Henry

“We are bringing fruit from Mexico into Nogales [AZ] as well as McAllen [TX],” said Chris Henry, director of sales a

The 2011-12 Mexican avocado season “is certainly in full swing right now,” Bob Lucy, president of Del Rey Avocado Co. Inc. in Fallbrook, CA, told The Produce News Oct. 26. Nearly 20 million pounds of fruit came into the United States “just from Mexico” during the previous week, “so that is pretty amazing.”

Rankin McDaniel

The 2011-12 Mexican avocado season for McDaniel Fruit Co.