Guest article by Diego Castagnasso, a fresh produce and blueberry industry expert. Loud, opinionated, INFORMED! Diego writes DC’s B-Side’s newsletter as he speaks and speaks as he writes. You can subscribe, under your own peril, to his newsletter here or visit his less fun (for now) website Drip Consulting.

If you were waiting for a mega large Ultra dense (in information) newsletter….

Well, you were wrong.

A lot of you are getting home from holidays, some are still on vacation, and of course, some are working… Good for you!

Me…. well, I'm coming back from Buenos Aires. I visited my family for the New Year and also took an Ecostress test.

You know… the one that tells you if your heart is OK.

Mine is!! …. and that Doc even congratulated me because I took a full load of weights and, I didn't die or have a heart attack while doing it.

Apart from that…

What else?

Source: USDA Market News via Agronometrics.

(Agronometrics users can view this chart with live updates here)

Source: USDA Market News via Agronometrics.

(Agronometrics users can view this chart with live updates here)

Not much really:

We are still waiting to see what will happen with the port’s strikes

Trump is still 14 days away from getting into the WHITE HOUSE, so no tariffs out there yet.

Peruvian volumes arriving in the US during December (weeks 48 to 52) are more than 19.000 tons higher than last year  with the exception of week 52 which was 270 tons short.

Chile is more than 700 tons less than last year for the same period (week 48 to 52). The question is when will it recover?

Mexico’s volumes were up most of the weeks (weeks 48 to 52) but in week 52 they suffered a setback of more than 500 tons, which put the numbers in the red by almost 100 tons.

So we need to wait and see how it will all work out.

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Have a Great Week!!!

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PS: Ecostress is an echocardiogram while they stress you up by running, cycling, in my case, or just telling you that there are not enough people to harvest the blues today.

PS1: I will take a closer look at Mexico’s data in the next few weeks but for now I need more info.