But the spring holiday’s timing — April 5 — is a mixed blessing, they say, and California asparagus acreage may dip below last year’s.
Los Angeles-based Progressive Produce began receiving Mexico crop just after Christmas. Hampered at first by cold weather, it’s on the rise, said Don Hessel, general manager, asparagus.
“Production has started to pick up and the Mexicali Valley and Caborca got rain just yesterday,” Hessel said Jan. 27. “We always try to be in volume a week earlier than this. Hopefully it will be there in the next 10 days.”
California growers, who are starting . . .
