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April 9, 2021
“Right now, the only thing for sure is there is a lot of uncertainty,” Miguel (Miky) Suarez said at the end of March, about two months before the managing partner and sales manager of Nogales’ MAS Melons & Grapes LLC expected Sonora table grape growers to begin shipping promotable volumes of grapes.
His input from Sonoran growers brought mixed signals, but one consistent message is that it won’t be a full crop of Sonoran grapes this spring.
Miguel (Miky) Suarez
He added, “that every year the estimates for total production are calculated lower than they actually are going to be. But this time I tend to believe it.”
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February 9, 2021
MAS Melons & Grapes LLC, because of expanding programs “we are having one of our busiest seasons,” said Miky Suarez, the Nogales firm’s managing partner.
“Normally in the winter, we only handle honeydew, watermelon and mini-watermelon from Colima and Nayarit. But now we have soft squashes and cucumbers from Angostura, Sinaloa.” Angostura is located about halfway between Sinaloa’s growing districts of Las Mochis and Culiacan. This began in mid-December and run to early spring.
Miky Suarez stands outside the Rio Rico, AZ, headquarters
of his firm, MAS Melons & Grapes LLC.
Suarez noted that MAS Melons & Grapes has traditionally been heavy to grape volume, “but now we are looking into other things, like vegetables,” in addition to ongoing strength in melons. “We will grow at a steady pace.”
RIO RICO, AZ - I’ve got melons on my mind, and as the weather begins to warm up, your consumers will too. A momentous transition and the launch of a new variety recently took place for MAS Melons, poising the company for a year of unprecedented success. To get a better read on this exciting program, I had the chance to chat with Miguel (Mikee) Suarez Jr. of Sales.“We have