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Growing veggies for the fine folks of Southeastern Massachusetts, w/ a focus on nutrient quality. Always interested in the evolution of digital payments.  🎩 

That all tracks.  Fruits are lagging veggies because it’s a larger capital investment in the ground.  

I could rant for hours about the challenges of growing fruits in the U.S. in the face of massive international import pressure.  The playing field is so uneven and politics pushes it even further out of whack.   

It would be great if there was some way to educate the consumer about imported fruit. It’s hard to blame them for buying cheaper fruit when they don’t see the environmental cost of shipping it thousands of miles.  They just see 5 or 10 cents less at a time when everyone is more price conscious. 

Slight tangent… Pre-NAFTA the California supplied avocado market peaked at ~400m pounds.  That was the whole US market.  Now we’re importing 2.8 billion pounds and still producing 300m domestically.  The market has grown tremendously.   It’s hard to break out just one crop but there’s probably a lot of change in consumption baked into this data.

Avocado consumption go up, up, up…

domestic production not so much.