September 2011 Issue

Southeastern peaches enter Mexican markets

It’s the first shipment from the Southeast since 1994.

H-2A workers in the Titan Farms packing plant cheered when they found their peaches were going to their home country. Richard Lehnert For the first time since 1994, peaches from the southeastern United States moved into stores in Mexico in June this year. The breakthrough came after about five years of work by growers, the peach councils of Georgia and South Carolina, research entomologists, and officials at the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the Mexican government. Under the new agreement, growers will conform to a protocol that assures Mexico that no fruit containing plum curculio or oriental […]

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September 1, 2011

Trade, Stone fruits, Labor, International, Richard Lehnert

Richard Lehnert

After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index

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