Mexico crop loss 80 to 100 percent

IceAgeNow ^ | 8 Feb, 2011

[Errant]

Here's an announcement to its customers that I'm told came directly from Sysco Foods.

ALL OF OUR GROWERS HAVE INVOKED THE ACT OF GOD CLAUSE ON OUR CONTRACTS (Force majuere) DUE TO THE FOLLOWING RELEASE. WE WILL BE CONTACTING YOU PERSONALLY TO REVIEW HOW THIS WILL AFFECT OUR CONTRACTED ITEMS WITH YOU GOING FORWARD.

THE DEVASTATING FREEZE IN MEXICO IS WORST FREEZE IN OVER 50 YEARS...

THE EXTREME FREEZING TEMPERATURES HIT A VERY BROAD SECTION OF MAJOR GROWING REGIONS IN MEXICO, FROM HERMOSILLO IN THE NORTH ALL THE WAY SOUTH TO LOS MOCHIS AND EVEN SOUTH OF CULIACAN. THE EARLY REPORTS ARE STILL COMING IN BUT MOST ARE SHOWING LOSSES OF CROPS IN THE RANGE OF 80 TO 100%.

EVEN SHADE HOUSE PRODUCT WAS HIT BY THE EXTREMELY COLD TEMPS. IT WILL TAKE 7-10 DAYS TO HAVE A CLEARER PICTURE FROM GROWERS AND FIELD SUPERVISORS, BUT THESE GROWING REGIONS HAVEN'T HAD COLD LIKE THIS IN OVER A HALF CENTURY.

THIS TIME OF YEAR, MEXICO SUPPLIES A SIGNIFICANT PERCENT OF NORTH AMERICA'S ROW CROP VEGETABLES SUCH AS: GREEN BEANS, EGGPLANT, CUCUMBERS, SQUASH, PEPPERS, ASPARAGUS, AND ROUND AND ROMA TOMATOES.

FLORIDA NORMALLY IS A MAJOR SUPPLIER FOR THESE ITEMS AS WELL BUT THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN STRUCK WITH SEVERE FREEZE DAMAGE IN DECEMBER AND JANUARY AND UP UNTIL NOW HAVE HAD TO PURCHASE PRODUCT OUT OF MEXICO TO FILL THEIR COMMITMENTS, THAT IS NO LONGER AND OPTION.

WITH THE SERIES OF WEATHER DISASTERS THAT HAS OCCURRED IN BOTH OF THESE MAJOR GROWING AREAS WE WILL EXPERIENCE IMMEDIATE VOLATILE PRICES, EXPECTED LIMITED AVAILABILITY, AND MEDIOCRE QUALITY AT BEST.

THIS WILL NOT ONLY HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT ON SUPPLIES, BUT BECAUSE OF VERY STRONG BLOSSOM DROPS, THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT SUPPLIES 30 – 60 DAYS FROM NOW...

[Errant]

Looks like vegetable prices are headed even higher!

[ZULU]

What about marijuana? (sarcasm)

[cripplecreek]

Good thing my supply from last summer has barely been touched.

[GonzoGOP]

Wow, one more disaster caused by record rains and cold. But i thought that global warming was going to bring about extreme heat and drought?

[ClearCase_guy]

Coming inflation blamed on Global Warming in ... 3 ... 2 ...

[dirtboy]

This is why cooling is a bad thing and warming is a good thing.

[DBrow]

Chill, dude. Chill.

[Pearls Before Swine]

What about marijuana? (sarcasm)

Don't worry... it grows like a weed.

[shield]

It’s a shame global warming was a scam!!!

[Errant]

Same here. Looks like we may need to start using what we've put back until the garden starts producing. According to the announcement, we still have time to stock up a bit before shortages begin to appear.

[GeronL]

As if the corn thing wasn’t bad enough

[RobertClark]

I am a transportation consultant and bid / sell transport of commodities including crops. I have been alerted by two clients in the past week that they are backing out of dedicated transport agreements because of the lack of available exports from Mexico of produce over the next two months. We aren’t talking a few truckloads, we’re talking thousands of truckloads. The word is that “nothing is going to be available out of Mexico for export until at least April”.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Caps lock key... please use it. Thank you.

[Red_Devil 232]

Ping to the Gardeners!

[forgotten man]

“What about marijuana? (sarcasm)”

The California growers of indoor “medical” marijuana will be unaffected. In fact they are more of a threat to the Mexican cartels than Janet Incompetano is.

[Dick Bachert]

Global Warming guru Algore – wearing his ever present Nobel medal – is seen here en-route to an important “scientific” conference in Nassau hosted by the UN/IPCC where he was to be the keynote speaker.

Topics on the agenda were to have included “Finding a Good Bail Bondsman,” “Not ALL Criminal Lawyers Are Sharks,” “Changing Careers for Dummies,” “You Want Fries With That?,” “How To Encrypt Emails,” “The Best Prison Jobs,” “Getting Along With Your Cellmate” and “Getting Used to Sleeping On Your Back.”

A sudden – and unfortunate – blast of what the “scientist” in charge of the conference termed “global warming” caused the meeting to be rescheduled until Algore can be thawed some time next Spring – assuming there will BE one.

Our reporter has learned that the influential conservative web site Free Republic has launched a contribution drive to rent a freezer locker in which to keep Gore for the 10 to 15 years estimated it will take for the so-called “mainstream media” to begin covering the Climategate story.

[Errant]

WOW, thanks for sharing that information. It seems this story is lfor REAL!

[Errant]

This is why cooling is a bad thing and warming is a good thing.

That's for sure! Joe Bastardi (among others) with accuweather.com says next winter is going to be even worse!

[netmilsmom]

Good thing I have a freezer filled with the harvest from last year!

And I like canned tomatoes.

[evets]

... BUSH'S FAULT