UPDATED: Severe Mexican vegetable shortages expected into March

Supplies of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other vegetables from Mexico will be severely limited until at least March following an early February freeze. Prior to Feb. 4, southern Sinaloa had not suffered a real freeze since 1957, said Jerry Wagner, sales and marketing director for Nogales, Ariz.-based Farmer's Best International LLC. The results in the short term, and the mid- to long term for some crops, are devastating. “The end of February and first half of March, there will be even worse shortages of product” than in the first half of February, Wagner said. The Fresh Produce Association of the...