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No, huh?jerrab » 11 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ it is not a matter of choice, california cannot produce enough avacodos.
-------------------------California grows commercial quantities of avocados, but it can’t come close to producing enough to fill American consumer demand. Thus, Mexico supplies about 80 percent of the Hass market in the United States, followed by California at about 12 percent, Peru at 5 percent, Colombia at 2.6 percent, and “others” at less than 1 percent. When Mexican avocados were allowed into all U.S. states in 2007, per capita consumption was about 3.5 pounds. Less than 20 years later, it’s nearly triple that. The WSJ does not try to predict what will happen with tariffs, and if imposed, what they could do the price of avocados in the United States. But it does say there are probably two things that won’t change with the avocado economy: “The first is that U.S. companies will keep importing from Mexico because that’s the only way they can meet the year-round demand. “The chances of American farmers [growing] enough avocados on their own are roughly the same as their chances of making avocados neon pink.
I submit that California CAN AND WILL begin to produce more domestic avocados THIS YEAR, once they find there is a demand for cheaper ones in the market. And so will Florida and Hawaii, two OTHER states eminently capable of growing avocados if the free market demands it! By this time next year, that 80% of the avocado market imported from Mexico will likely drop to about 25%, with the remainder being made up by AMERICAN farmers making more profits than ever before! And in future years, that percentage of Mexican avocados will drop even further!
Just watch and see what the free US market is capable of when our own government is no longer working AGAINST us!