date:Feb 06, 2013
ot seeing that supply equilibrium coming back anytime soon because of temperature extremes in the past two months, J.P. LaBrucherie, the president of the Imperial Valley Growers Association, said in a telephone interview from El Centro. It was unseasonably warm, so some was rotten, then all of a sudden, it got really cold. Its a double whammy.
While California is the nations top grower of fresh lettuce, accounting for half of U.S. output, Imperial and Yuma counties produce about 90 percent of s