Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Family and friends.. listen up!� Then take time off Monday to buy produce and frozen fruits and vegetables that will fit in your freezer.
Nancy Kosling

Please post this important food news to all members .� It will effect how they purchase food and how to reallocate their food
budgets for the early part of this year and maybe beyond.� I have typed Mac Slavo's article total verbatim. Nancy Kosling

Posted by price analyst, Mac Slavo on February 13, 2011 11:03 pm�In Commodities
Report:
Major Food Distributor Sysco: "Immediate Volatile Prices,
Expected Limited Availability, and Mediocre Quality at Best"
�
Adding to already rising food prices due to monetary inflation and weather
related supply problems around the globe, one of the world's leading food
distribution companies, Sysco Corporation, is advising clients and their
customers that the recent freeze across North America has significantly impacted
growing operations in Mexico (as well as parts of the U.S.) leading to 80% -
100% crop damage:

��� ��� All our growers have invoked the Act of God clause on our contracts 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 sill 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, 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 an
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.

��� ��� Some growers are meeting with their boards right now to determine
whether they should
��� ��� immediately re-plant, hoping for a harvest by late-March-to-early April,
or whether they should
������� disc the fields under and wait for another season.

��� ���Mr. Slavo's final note:� Now might be a good time to hit the frozen foods
(or fresh produce if

��� ��� you've got a vacuum sealer) aisle at your local grocery store and stock
up on your favorite fruits

��� ��� and veggies, as there may be a severe supply crunch coming in the next
couple of weeks lasting

��� ��� perhaps several months.� Why pay premium prices later when you can
prepare yourself today,

��� ��� before the rest of the country gets wind of it.

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