Agronometrics in Graphics: Fruit Imports and Hurricane Laura

In this article in the series "In Charts", Colin Fain of Agronometrics shows us how the US market is evolving. Each week the series will analyze a different fruit and vegetable crop, focusing on a specific origin or theme to see what factors are driving the change. It's hard to keep up with what's on the news these days. Between the massive protests trying to correct the overwhelming racial injustices, the California fires, a presidential election, and not forgetting COVID, the heads of most people are overwhelmed. But as anyone who has spent more than a minute in this industry will know, Mother Nature has an agenda of her own; Hurricane Laura enters. When this article was written, the hurricane was making landfall in Louisiana and a storm surge was expected to spread from Galveston, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana. As a naturally curious person, I was wondering how this might affect the fruit imports we track at Agronometrics. The closest large port reported by USDA is Houston, ...