For the past several months, mango supplies have been tight leading to much stronger pricing than normal, but it appears relief is on its way.

Currently Georgia is the main broccoli supply source for Virginia-based Parker Farms, which has a robust network of growers up and down the East Coast to allow it to supply crowns, bunched and value-added options every day of the year.

Domenick Bianco, an entrepreneur extraordinaire in the California fruit business, recently received a joint Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Table Grape Commission and the California Fresh Fruit Association. The award was both richly deserved and aptly named as Cookie, his nickname from a very young age, has spent his entire life building one business after another and is still going strong at 89.

With Mexico grape officials estimating that exporters will send about 24 million cartons of table grapes to the U.S. market this spring and summer season, Carlos Bon of Divine Flavor expects to see a plethora of promotions as FOB prices should be reflective of the uptick in volume.

To Divine Flavor’s Chief Marketing Officer Alan Aguirre Camou, the company’s value in the marketplace is tied directly to its three founders and the vision they established decades ago in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico.

“We are one of the largest grape producers in the world,” he said, “and at the start of the season we always talk about the crop and how it looks this season. But what is more important is what happened when we were founded 30 years ago and how that is sustaining the brand through the next generation.”

It was just two years ago that the avocado production in the Mexico state of Jalisco gained potential access to the U.S. market, with grower-packers having to also qualify for certification of their groves and facilities to begin exporting.