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.

DNE World Fruit Sales in Fort Pierce, FL, not only got off to an early start to its Florida citrus season, it expects to stay in the game longer this year than in previous campaigns.

Calvert Cullen

“We are just getting started in Plant City, Florida,” Calvert Cullen, president of Northampton Growers,

Florida Classic Growers’ Fallglo tangerines were much larger this year than the previous two seasons.

Terrific weather and a focus o