Mexican watermelons bringing good color and size
Mexican watermelons bringing good color and size
Mexican watermelon volume began flowing into Nogales around March 23.
Prices began dropping about as soon as the trucks started arriving, according to George Quintero Jr., the managing partner of Grower Alliance LLC. The f.o.b. plunge “was faster than we expected,” he said March 30.
“Now we’re into the fields that are coming on. We hope it will stabilize in the next week,” he said.
Grower Alliance was offering watermelons “with good size and good color.” Once the market begins to stabilize from its free-fall, good quality will be a sales advantage for Grower Alliance, Quintero said.
Grower Alliance will be shipping volume of Mexican watermelons until mid-July. The firm may have a late-July volume lag, but it will be going strong again in early August.