Excerpt from Survey of Mexican Winter Vegetable Production Production costs are low despite the fact that such hazards as frosts, insects, and plant diseases tend to keep the average yields per acre of exportable quality at low levels and that market prices in the United States and Canada are so low at times that a portion of the crop is abandoned. As for marketing costs from harvest to delivery in a United States terminal market, they are high and offset the low production costs. Growers and shippers usually stop shipping for export when United States and Canadian prices will not return marketing costs. However, losses are usually encountered before a grower will disband his harvesting and packing crews. In view of the high marketing costs, these losses can be extensive when there is a sharp break in prices. In prior years, practically all of the vegetables in these areas were grown for export to the United States and Canada. The demand in Mexican markets, however, has increased sharply in the last few years. A large portion of the lower quality vegetables not suitable for export is now sold there. This will tend to increase returns per acre and lower the production, harvest, and grading costs, which have previously been borne by the export shipments. Processing outlets are available on the West Coast, but are un profitable on the crops grown for airport. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.