Agricultural news from Mexico, covering crop exports (avocados, berries, tomatoes), tequila and mezcal production, farming policy, water management, and rural development.
Agriculture
German consumers calling it butter honey. Japanese buyers lining up for the creamy Mexican product. Germany alone imported roughly 680 tons of Altiplano honey from Aguascalientes last year.
Sonora
Screwworm is marching north through Mexican livestock corridors while the US border stays shut on Sonora cattle exports. The state cattle union is patrolling two fronts at once with 1.9 million head on the line.
Screwworm
Deep in the jungles of Chiapas, a new factory is pumping out millions of sterile flies. The plan: release them into the wild, let them mate with the screwworm parasite, and watch the population collapse.
beef
When the U.S. shut its border to live cattle from Mexico over a parasite, ranchers did something the market did not expect: they fattened their cattle at home and sold them as packaged meat. Exports jumped 23 to 30 percent.
Business
Mexico just exported $153 billion worth of agricultural products. That's not a typo. That's $106 million a day, every day, for seven and a half years.
Agriculture
Chiapas opens trade talks with the European Union to expand agricultural exports to international markets.
Business
Iran closed the world's most critical shipping lane. Urea prices in Mexico just hit ,000 per ton — up 82% in two months. Farmers are cutting fertilizer. Crops will suffer. And the food on your table just got more expensive.